Menteith looked fantastic with dramatic mountains, rolling fields, green trees and blue skies. All the history and mystery of Mary Queen of scots being imprisoned on one of the islands in inchmahone castle just added to the atmosphere. The boats were primed ready but with clear skies it was ok for sun tans but not great for fishing.
Fishing with mike we quickly got into practice mode searching the water for shoals of fish and looking for those killing methods and a plan for tomorrow. We found fish from hotel bay around to the cages and beyond. We also found them from loch end all around through international bay and back to the lodge. How come the midlands waters can't have this spread of fish?
The fish were well up in the top couple of feet and we settled on a the midge tip although the floater and slow glass were in reserve. We felt as though they didn't want a colourful fly and focused on black or brown. We were preferring hoppers, crunchers, cormorant booby or a black tadpole all retrieved with a slow figure of 8 even static
Mike managed to catch a couple of fish on a black tadpole - his only one, and when it got stuck on a rock later in the day there was only one answer. He would have to walk on water to retrieve it!! No surprise to me!
I expected that it would cloud over tomorrow so i would focus on naturals first and get my fish as quick as I could. The Barclays team talk followed in the evening and Ralph had great sport on a cruncher and Ross on a Gold head hopper (Yuck). So with the info I had and few beers to settle me down - just medicinal! The plan was set for the match against the Bank of scotland tomorrow.
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