Lake of Menteith, 27 August 2017

I can’t help myself but still get a bit over-excited ahead of any outings to the Lake.  Is it just me?  The recent better weather was continuing – warm and overcast with a westerly breeze.  Fishery reports in the run-up sounded familiar, with fishing being challenging.  I met Quint on my arrival and walked down…

Frandy 20 August 2017

It has been a fairly dismal summer so far, besotted with big swings in temperatures and strong winds, with a fair spattering of rain.  In general, most fisheries have reported that conditions have been tough and fish moody and difficult at best so, to be honest, it has been a bit of a slog of…

Coldingham Loch, 13 August 2017

The forecast on Saturday night looked good – calm, possibly even flat calm, with reasonable cloud cover.  However, we arrived on Sunday morning to cold and breezy, and not a cloud in the sky!  To make matters worse, Gareth informed us fishing had been really tough recently.  Ah well!  Nothing ventured and all that, Stewart…

Glencorse, 06 August 2017

A reasonable day, conditions-wise – a tad wet at times, but nice breeze out the south-west and good overhead.  It was flat calm, tackling up, which prompted me to start on dries, but before we even got on the water, a breeze had got up.  Nevertheless, I had a look from a fish first cast,…