The down side to this extended period of an “actual real amazing summer weather” is river and loch levels are lowering and water temperatures are rising. You may have seen that the fishery on Loch Venechar have temporarily suspended fishing due to loch temperatures around its margins exceeding 18c and above in places.

Fishing around the Forth have provided the following info-graphic providing really useful advice for fishing in these conditions:

I don’t want to “rain on anyone’s parade” but I am hoping for a really good couple of days of rain, which will be most welcome to clean up the river and improve the fishing as we approach the final third of the season