Lake of Menteith, 22 October 2022

A cracking day to finish our club outings for 2022… well, up until about 2:00 p.m. it was.  At that point, it started to get dreich, and it got dreicher and dreicher as the rain got heavier and more persistent.  But the morning was a cracker.  Mild, and dead calm.  Time to go looking for…

Lake of Menteith, 20 August 2022

Well, we were finally greeted by some welcome rain on our journey through to the Lake.  There was a fair amount of surface water on the road and we were met by a fairly heavy downpour on our arrival.  Although there was already a decent south westerly blowing into hotel bay, the forecast for the…

Watch Water Reservoir, 06 August 2022

It was another stunning drive across the Lammermuir Hills to the Watch reservoir and as per our last outing there was lots of encouraging wildlife to be seen en-route.  Alas, the weather conditions were going to be challenging for our day, with more bright sunshine and a blustery south easterly wind that was forecast to…

lake of Menteith, 27 July 2022

Keith Logan reports… I was pretty apprehensive about prospects for our day’s fishing.  Skies were clear and temperature was picking up already.  Reports from earlier in the week were very mixed but it seems that a few people had been picking up fish but on very different tactics. Pick from small dries, buzzers, right down…