River Tay update

A wee update as I have Eddies pict of his fish he caught on the boat. Well done mate nice fish.

                                                           A happy man indeed.

River Tay Outing

Willie Stewart Robert Eddie Mark and myself all headed to the river tay for our yearly outing. Eddie picking me up at 6.20am with Mark we head up the road. We arrived at the tay around 8.00 and waited for Willie Stewart and Robert to arrive then we headed to the site.

 Willie Stewart Robert and Eddie went out on the boats in the morning while Mark and I stay on the bank. It was not as cold as last year with the sun shining for most off the day.

It is a stunning view and place to see. About an hour and a half into the fishing I got stuck on a rock or twigs under the water but managed to get it out into what I thought was another snag but as I moved closer I felt the line move off and some head shaking fish on. Eddie was watching from the boat and asked if it was a fish replied aye. They headed over as Eddies boat had a landing net while Mark was a good bit up from me with our landing net. After a good fight with it running up the bank one way then back down taking line as it went. Glad I took my little bait runner as it made it easy to let the fish take line and well done to Eddie who landed it for me. Result a little 8lber.

Eddie was next into a fish which gave him a good fight too and once it was landed onto the boat it came in at 10lbs nice one mate. Don't have a pict as Stewart took the pict on the boat once I have one from Eddie I will put it on. After lunch we headed back out with 3 on the bank and the other 3 out on the boats.

 
 



 

The day ended with nothing else being caught but what a view to end the day.

 

Loch Etive charter boat outing

10 member's fished the charter boat on Sat. Arriving at taynuilt slip for 8.30am some small boats had already arrived on the beach. We boarded the boat at 9pm and started fishing at 9.30pm.

There were small spurs about at first, Mark catching them 2 at a time. The other guys getting into the action as well nice to see.

Then the bigger ones appeared along with the smaller ones. First one for myself at 3lbs 11ozs but that didn't last long with Iain landing a nice spur at 5lbs 1oz. The whitting also made an appearance and as you see with Iain whitting they did not last long if you did not land them. Eddie then landed a nice spur of 6lbs 1oz the best spur of the day. I came close to what I thought was a good fish as the rod tip got pulled over and a lot of head shaking was going on. Eddie had a wee sweat on almost sure I heard a sigh of relief as it was wrapped up making it feel bigger than it was.

We had a sweep of £2.50 for the heaviest spur that was won by Eddie and £2.50 for any other heaviest species. This was won by Matt with a 1lb 7oz lsd. Well done guys.

A good day and banter too as everyone had a shot of winning any one of the sweeps but just getting pipped by ozs from Eddie and Matt.

Looking forward to the next outing guys.

Loch Etive

We headed up to Loch Etive to fish our club match. There were a few delays on the way up with road work's going on. Finally arrived and the wind had picked up a bit but was to die down later on. A few guy's I had talked too were fishing for Pollack but had no success due to the fresh water in the loch.

We headed to our fishing place and started the match. The first few hours the spurs were about.

Then the rain started around 6pm and did not let up till the end of the match at 10pm. There was still a few spurs around but the main stay were whitting codling doggies and thornies. 

Results were 

Shane 1st with 15 fish for 613pts

Mark 2nd with 14 fish for 449pts

Frank 3rd with 9 fish for 381pts

Stewart 4th with 9 fish for 350pts

John 5th with 2 fish for 115pts

Well done guys for staying the course in the wet conditions and getting home safely with the road conditions and detours. 

ASAC Sweepstake Results

Results from last night’s sweepstake at Prestwick  …

 

1st - Stuart Ballantyne with 166cm (5 fish – 3 Flounders, 1 Bass and 1 Coalie)

2nd - Nico Wilson with 129cm (5 fish – 4 Flounders and 1 Bass)

3rd - Willie Kennedy 115cm (4 fish – 4 Flounders).

 

Longest fish .. Stuart Ballantyne with a 41cm Flounder.    

 

Conditions at the start of the match were good with a nice surf rolling in, however the wind dropped away and the sea calmed. Things started off great for Willie with a double shot of good Flounders at 40 & 34cm on his first cast. I heard through the grapevine though that Stuart Ballantyne also had a double shot of Flounders at the start. Flounders were the main catch through the daylight hours and as it got dark there were a number of small Cod and a few whiting.

 

All in all a good night with most guys catching fish.

 

 

 

 

LRF

Shane and myself decided to have a go at some light rock fishing. We headed to Port Logan with some lures jig heads and a spinning rods.

On the way down there was plenty of fog around but when we arrived no fog insight which was good. A few boats were heading out too.

We fished from 2.30pm till 7.30pm we ended up with about 50 fish between us as the light was going we had to leave the rock marks before it got to dark to see.

Fishing the local beach

After fishing the club match a couple of nights ago with only little fish being caught. Shane and I decided to give the local beach ago as we had some bait left over. The weather was not pleasant at all leaving in the rain and arriving in the rain.

We had a small window to get the waders and water proof jackets on before hitting the beach. First cast produced a nice brace of flounders for me.

 

 


 Then Shane had a nice coalie and some small codling along with myself.









We ended the night with some more codling and coalies and one last flounder for me.

Just goes to show you what a couple of night can do.