A few hours free this morning and a good forecast, so it seemed time for Alcatraz to hit Dunbar for the first time this season. Hopefully things should be waking up on the east coast by now and the cod larder is very bare indeed. Launching at HW just around 7 was a piece of… Continue reading First blood on the East Coast
A Pilgrimage to Sandwood Bay
Very remote, often stormy, and always stunning, Sandwood is a broad sandy bay guarded on either end by sandstone cliffs hundreds of feet high which sits in the extreme and rather inaccessible NW corner of the Scottish mainland. Over the years it has acquired an almost mystical reputation as a place to visit, complete with the ghosts of drowned… Continue reading A Pilgrimage to Sandwood Bay
Three badgers and a Wedding
Yes, it was a rather short but surreal trip last night… I occasionally take the dog and a rod for a short flattie bashing session on a quiet East Lothian beach. Not being particularly into either beach fishing or flatties I usually only give it an hour or two at dusk, and yesterday looked to be a… Continue reading Three badgers and a Wedding
Oars out on Loch Leven
… or a trip cut short. I’d another crack at Loch Leven with the Avon a couple of weeks ago as Ian was otherwise occupied and it seemed a waste to take the bigger boat across when the forecast was for fine, sunny weather. Well the forecast was spot on, and it was almost too… Continue reading Oars out on Loch Leven
Struggling on Etive
I haven’t been back to Etive since my Xmas camping trip with Trevor, so it was first choice for a daytrip – and besides I still needed a spurdog for my 2015 species count and Etive is the most reliable place I know for them. Ian was otherwise tied up so I press-ganged the dog into… Continue reading Struggling on Etive
More codling from Loch Leven
Took a use it or lose it day’s leave today and decided to go for quantity rather than quality with a few hours trying for codling on Loch Leven. The forecast suggested the wind would rise in the early afternoon so I set the alarm for a silly time and packed the SIB in the… Continue reading More codling from Loch Leven
SIBing the Avalanche Shelter at Loch Carron
It’s been four years since my last visit to Loch Carron, mainly because it’s over 200 miles and 4+ hours away, and because the fishing is OK rather than good. However it’s a fine place to visit and I could do with a change from the standard winter choices of Etive or Leven, so the… Continue reading SIBing the Avalanche Shelter at Loch Carron
A New Theme for Corkwing
The weather was a little too crap to bother with the fishing rods at this time of year, so I spent a little while playing with a new look for the site. It’s not fully finished yet, but virtually everything should be visible. Hopefully it’s a fairly clean and uncluttered look… Share this:
My earlier post on creating personal charts using UKHO data highlighted the amount of freely available, detailed, survey information available.
I’ve now updated and renamed my old DrDepth page to include a more detailed “how to” guide to using ReefMaster software to create personalised charts for use in Lowrance and similar kit.
The topic may seem a little technical but there is some very useful information out there without working up too much of a sweat (just browsing the UKHO imagery will show features that do not stand out on Navionics or C-Map charts).
A Trickle of Thornbacks
A lovely sunrise over Rannoch Moor had turned into a somewhat greyer and rawer day at Ballachulish, but it was still and calm as Ian and I launched and headed over to the fish farm and anchored up in search of thornbacks. First fish came a few minutes later when my little spinning rod bent over to the unmistakeable struggle of… Continue reading A Trickle of Thornbacks