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Heriot's Angling Club Outing Reports 2001-2008 Heriot’s Angling Club Outing Reports 2001-2008 2001 Lindores, day session, 25th March A bit of a nip in the air! It was snowing for a while! And your secretary had a fish first cast of 2001! An odd assortment of flies and methods worked, including my boat partner and I getting 2 each on buzzers on the slime line. Most of the top bags came from the bottom end, where we fished, but we never really got a handle on it. Meanwhile, fishing the top end, one of our rods had 8 for the day, but others struggled up there, and the fishery management seemed sure the bottom end was best. The rest of our top bags went 7s, 6s, 5s, 4s, 3s, 2s, 1s and a blank. Oh, and our top rod... He had 13: 5 more than anyone else!!! -- Hi-D all day in the shallow water down the bottom end. What really threw us though, was boat 11 (not our club), who sat in the one spot all day, chucking out slime lines, slow F-of-8-ing and taking fish after fish. These guys must have had 30-odd for their boat. We saw a white lure going out (which was one of our successful flies) but heard them telling their mates they were getting them on Diawl Bachs. We weren't sure how much kidology was going on, but it's not impossible they were telling the truth. As usual, in these situations, we tried to copy them and got nowhere with it!!! Our club return was 14 rods weighing in 54 fish for 99 lb 4 oz, with 22 more returned. Lake of Menteith, day session, 14th April The Lake is in full swing, despite the Foot and Mouth restrictions (you will need to drive in over disinfectant mats). The day was milder and much more blustery than during the week leading up to it. It also rained all morning, clearing up later. A few fish fell to typical early season tactics in the first hour, but very quickly changed their behaviour. Those who stuck to Hi-Ds and lures struggle as the day went on. There was a reasonable hatch of black buzzers coming off, and although many anglers concentrated on intermediates or medium sinkers, our top rod by a long way got his fish on a couple of black size 12 wet flies. These were fished on the Hi-D, even though the fish were high in the water. Why change when you are having success? His hefty bag of 8 for 17 lb 8 oz plus 2 returned was 5 better than the second placed rod. The latter fished a damsel on the slime line over at the area of the pike nets. This area was a hot spot for many, while the other catching areas were the road shore and hotel bay. The Club's return was 12 rods weighing in 32 fish for 64lb 9 oz. Two anglers had a scare when their boat capsized, turning into the wind. Fortunately they were in relatively shallow water near a downwind shore, so they were able to scramble ashore and most of their gear washed in after them. A point to note... One of the anglers was wearing a non-automatic, inflatable life jacket, the thinking being that if you fall in, you just inflate it by blowing into the mouth tube. Forget it, he said. When the cold of the water and the shock of the situation hit you, you cannot even draw a breath, let alone inflate a life jacket. Lindores, day session, 22nd April A dreich day, from start to finish, but the fishing was lively enough. Early action to lures (eg black taddy) put fish in the boat for several of our members, but the fish soon changed their preferences, and it was nymphs, nymphs, nymphs after that. Sorry, one of our members who loves to be different took his fish on dry fly. Claret Shipman was the killing fly for the surface feeders on the go in the top left corner. It was a decent hatch of black buzzer that got them interested, and the best way for most folk was to anchor up and swing a team of nymphs. Epoxy buzzer, Diawl Bachs, standard and holo, and PTNs, pearly and shagged-out after a long squack, did most of the damage. Alan M. with a bright rainbow, taken swinging the buzzers. Best bag for the club was a limit 5 for 11 lb 3 oz plus 9 returned, although there were also bags of 13, 12 and two 9s in the total. Fish were taken all over the water, but the top end (harbour) saw the heaviest activity. The club's total was 18 rods weighing in 56 fish for 101 lb 2 oz, with a further 38 returned. The heaviest fish went 3 lb 8 oz; a resident at that, as were several others including some overwintered fish. Linlithgow Loch, day session, 29th April Conditions were good: warm, with a soft, variable breeze and broken cloud and sunny intervals. A trickle of Scottish blend buzzers was coming off all day, and the water was gin clear. Catches were generally good, with the usual sort of spread from bumper bags down to 1s and 2s -- and no blanks! The town bay had taken a hammering, but one of our rods still got more than half his catch there. For most, however, the east end was more productive. The only problem with Linlithgow these days is it has far too many boats on it for the size of the water: about 22 on a water of 100-odd acres. That means when the fish are concentrated in one area, things get very tight, with boats fishing only yards from one another. It only takes the one boat to drive right into the centre of the congregation to make tempers frayed ...and there always seems to be the required one boat on hand! Swinging the nymph proved the top method, with buzzer pupae in black, red and olive proving most effective. Top bag was 8 for 20 lb, including the day's heaviest fish, a cracking resident of 5 lb 12 oz, plus a further 7 returned. In all, the Club's 17 rods weighed in 82 fish for 151 lb, returning another 18. Carron Valley Reservoir, day session, 6th May The day started promisingly, with a light easterly and decent cloud cover. In the first hour there was a decent rise to Scottish blend buzzers, and one of our members had 3 wildies on a shuttlecock CDC in Carron Bay. Unfortunately, the cloud then burned off to give us the killer conditions of Carron: bright sun and an east wind. The fish went down, and it was a case of find the depth AND find the place if you wanted fish: and that was quite a tall order. Flies seemed to follow the Henry Ford philosophy: any colour you like, as long as it's black. Notably, a quick bag of 3 stockies was taken on DI-7 off the spit beyond Carron Bay, on the way to the top dam. Successful flies were black tadpole and bibio (photos). Everyone else toiled for a wildy or two, which being only a half-pound average, were nearly all returned. One member had 4 on a black Howwood. At the end of the session, the Club's 11 rods weighed in a lowly 7 fish for 5 lb 1 oz, although a further 23 were returned. Two days later in identically sunny conditions, a green-tailed zulu (or a viva palmer if you like) was the killing fly for our competitor in the national heats. His boat landed 3 powan in the course of the day, a sign that they are doing rather well in their new home! Lindores, evening session, 12th May This was a superb evening, even if it was very sunny. The sun didn’t matter: it was just great to be fishing, in the evening, in shirt-sleeves, after such a long a gap since the last time! We were always concerned about the north sea haar coming in, but it stayed in the north sea, thankfully. The wind was light and variable all evening, allowing everyone to fish by whatever method they preferred. We had 2 boats that stood out from the rest in terms of catches: one with 16 and one with 13. The former got their fish by anchoring and swinging epoxy buzzers in the middle bay on the right. The latter got theirs by drifting out in open water, changing methods several times as the fish in that area changed their depth and mood as the evening progressed. That included slow figure-of-eighting nymphs on the slime line, static nymphing on the floater, and dry fly. Successful patterns for them included black tads, buzzer tads, Diawl Bachs, claret Shipmans and Leadbetter suspenders. Top bag for points was 5 for 10 lb 13 oz plus 2 returned, and in all The Club’s 8 boats weighed in 42 fish for 76 lb 7 oz, with a further 9 returned. Carron Valley Reservoir, day session, 21st May This was a cracking day, weather-wise. It proved that whenever the conditions are good, Carron will perform. Our 4 boats headed for 4 different areas and all found fish in numbers: at point of Burnhouse Bay, in Bins Bay, Carron Bay and the far dam. Early doors there were not many fish showing on top, but rods trying out a nymphing rig had success with such as a GRHE and buzzer tad.
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