Weekends that is! This last week hasn’t on the whole been as bad as usual on the aches and pains front ( for some reason) and come Sunday I felt I could probably throw a line out. The weather wasn’t as dry as I hoped...
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Allandale Tarn is located in West Lothian just North of West Calder, right next to the Five Sisters Zoo Park.
Read MoreI arrived at the Tarn by 11 ( I had it in my mind it was near Whitburn but actually it’s just outside West Calder. )
It was warm and sunny maybe too sunny for fishing and there was a very gusty wind. A lot more than at home. I went and bought a 4 hr C&R ticket, from a very nice gent in the fishery lodge and he chatted with me on how it was fishing. He was quite candid and said it wasn’t fishing as well as usual what with the recent warm weather and the rainfall of the few days before had stirred up the normally clear spring fed pond.
He also said if I was on C & R to try get the fish in quick as the warm water meant they wouldn’t recover well with the warm water. That’s fair enough, I would fish my 6/7 weight to bully them in.
Even thinking about fishing has been tough for me of late. I am struggling to walk and stand and...
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The first Stirling Castle AC outing of 2013 was this weekend at Lake of Menteith. The Lake and me...
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