Our first visit to Frandy this year saw the sun shining from a bright blue sky and with not a ripple on the water – but fish were rising. Trevor Gibson and I were fishing together, so we had a blether in the car park and decided to drift along the south bank. Trevor started…
When I arrived at Carron, a cold NNE wind was moving wee waves along the water and I saw no fish rising. I thought that a DI 2 or DI 3 might be the line to start with. However, I ended up in conversation with a bankie who had been fishing from six in the…
I would have thought that with it being a Monday and a bank holiday, the roads would have been quite quiet, but no, the bypass was worse than any Friday at six. However, the weather was just fine. When we got to the venue, it was sunny with a gentle southeast wind giving a nice…
It was a cold evening at Linlithgow and one of those swirly winds that swung the anchored boats accompanied the cold. The water temperature was 14oC but the air was 9oC at best – Not good conditions for getting fish to rise. Robert Wallace and I were fishing together – Robert with an intermediate line…
A better than average day, conditions-wise, given our abysmal track-record for trips to Coldingham. It was 100% ceiling, and the breeze (southy-easty-ish) was never stronger than moderate. Just one problem – the temperature. It was Baltic! However, there were signs of fish rising and Stewart Barnes and I set out with dries on. Stewart was…