Black Loch, 21 July 2018

This was a small, 3-boat evening outing.  The loch was clearly fishing well.  When I arrived, mid-afternoon, every boat was out and rods were bent.  Davy said they were getting good evening activity to sedges and advised going with dries from the start.  As it was quite a stiff breeze, I hedged my bets by…

Lake of Menteith, 14 July, 2018

Not much of interest to report from this outing.  However, my observation is that in general if it’s still too hot to enjoy a BBQ and a couple of cool beers in the back garden it’s definitely too hot to fish.  However, our conditions were almost perfect on our arrival, with a gentle south-westerly breeze…

Frandy, 07 July 2108

On Saturday, Glendevon looked more like the Pyrenees in high summer: nice for an alpine hike, but not much good for fishing.  The skies were clear and bright and the temperature at 8.00am was already touching 20 degrees.  There was little evidence of rising fish and the only insects on show were those pesky horse…

Linlithgow Loch, 01 July 2018

I was finding it hard to build any sort of enthusiasm for our outing to Linthgow Loch last weekend.  High summer was still in full swing and having failed miserably to find a successful method to catch fish (other than Powan) at Carron Valley earlier in the week, the prospect of another day afloat in…