A decidedly autumnal feel to our last outing of the season. Made more so by a fresh easterly breeze that lasted the whole day. However, it was dry and we had nearly 100% cloud cover – albeit that cold-feeling misty sort. Quint recommended Lochend as being worth a look. Thought it might fit in with…
Would the Loch again be a bowl of green pea soup covered with giant croutons as the bird lovers and parents hurled slices of pan loaf at the large numbers of rather plump grebes, swans, geese, ducks, seagulls, terns, magpies, woodpigeons and crows? Would we again have had enough by 1400 hrs? Seven of us…
An interesting start to the day. I was out with Dougie Skedd. It was breezy when we were tackling up. Dougie reckoned it was a fairly certain puller and he set up the one rod. Not that I disagreed with Dougie, but with time to spare before we were out – and so often a…
None of us knew what to expect weather-wise. The forecasters had promised everything from bright sun to constant rain, with winds anything from ‘light and variable’ to 17 mph westerlies! What we got early was calmish with some showers, warm and muggy – very nice fishing conditions. However, that gave way after an hour or…
The forecast made out it was going to be a good day, weather-wise: light showers, and a light breeze. The reality was somewhat different: bright brassy sunshine for the most part, and a stoory, swirly wind that couldn’t seem to make up its mind what direction it wanted to come from. Eric Singer and I…
Sun, sun, sun. A contender for hottest, calmest day of the year to date. I am wary of reporting that the fishing was very hard going, as we heard reports of good catches from the boats that packed in to Gateside bay. If that is the case, fair play to them. However, we did a…
Weather-wise, the day was a cracker. Sunny intervals, yes, but plenty cloud cover as well. The breeze was light from the west the whole day, dropping to near flat at times. Most folk concentrated on fishing dries, and there was an early flurry of action in the crook of the elbow, with John Levy, Dougie…
It is a long drive to Butterstone, but our early outing there had been a real cracker and there was a real feeling of anticipation on the way up. An absolutely flat calm was not what most of us were looking for on arrival. However, the fact that fish were popping there noses up all…
Frandy has tended to be a pretty solid venue for the club, with good top of the water fishing, however this outing was to be much more trying than usual. On arrival, the conditions looked excellent as, despite a smirr of rain there was a lovely little ripple, good cloud cover and a pleasant temperature.…
Another one of those days (there have been so many over the years) when, looking out the window at work during the day, it looked all set to be a great evening… warm, calm, overcast… might even get a Caenis hatch (I would genuinely like to see one – it must be at least 5…