July 8th 2012 – Linlithgow

I am having no pleasure putting this report on paper; well would you if you had blanked. It was an overcast kind of day with a gentle breeze at 17oC, the water was also 17oC – the wind (I am calling it a wind now) was from ENE so I will use that as my…

June 24th 2012 – Lake of Menteith

If you could choose weather conditions for a day on the Lake, then you would be pretty happy with Sunday 14th June. The temperature remained in the mid teens, there was good cloud cover throughout the day and a pretty steady light Westerly. The only downside was a rather murky water quality, probably resulting from…

June 15th 2012 – Linlithgow

Our first evening outing of the year – flaming June –it felt more like the end of October – We were exposed to a very blustery and cold east wind that blew the rain through the best of waterproofs. The word from our scout (Trevor had been on the water from eleven o’clock in the…

June 9th 2012 – Coldingham

I am disappointed that Colin is away up to Orkney (am sure he will have had a great time and I hope he has some photographs to show us when he comes back) if he had not gone to Orkney he would have been at this Coldingham outing and he would be writing this report.…

June 2nd 2012 – Frandy

As is customary, for this time of year, a cold East wind was blowing up the loch. Ken McCutchen said that the fish were not too deep and that Kate’s and muddler minnows had been taking fish. So armed with the advice I put on a floater and two size 14 loop wings. David Tyrie,…

May 27th 2012 – Carron Valley Reservoir

We seem to be marking out 2012 in chapters of weather. We had the tropical spell in March, the cold spell in April and into May – fishing in 5 degrees!… and all of a sudden we were into the 20s! The forecast I saw promised us cloud bubbling up later in the day. Well,…

May 21st 2012 – Watch Water

This was the first time I had been to Watch Water Reservoir, and on a very misty morning Hugh Thomson and I were on the road at 05:45 hours.  We met-up at Linlithgow Loch, before heading for Haddington, Gifford and then on to Longformacus, arriving at the Loch about 07:55 hours.  We were not the…

May 5th 2012 – Coldingham

In time-honoured tradition, we continued not to be able to buy a good day’s fishing conditions for a trip to Coldingham. This one started cold, windy and brassy bright. In fairness, while the bright sunlight continued almost unbroken from start to finish, the breeze surprisingly dropped away at a gradual pace until it was almost…

April 21st 2012 – Carron Valley Reservoir

Four seasons in one day at Carron, with the temperature yo-yo-ing, the wind coming and going off all points of the compass, and the sky giving everything from bright sunshine to heavy showers.  The modal conditions were calmish, overcast and cool.  Buzzers were hatching in sparse numbers and it was a decent-seeming shout to go…

April 15th 2012 – Linlithgow Loch

On a nice sunny morning, the drive through to Linlithgow was pleasant, but not very promising, and when I arrived I found that Derek Kilgour had beat me to it and was busy contemplating the brassy blue sky as he huddled from the NNW wind – not a strong wind but cold. We were advised…