Date

Fishery

11/05/2008

Frandy Fishery

Week Ending 11/5/08

Individual Returns: A.Bernard (Tillicoultry) kept 8 fish weighing a total of 23lb. G McNeill(Falkirk) kept 7 fish weighing a total of 15lb 5oz. J. Easton (Kirkcaldy) kept 10 fish weighing a total of 22lb. J Beattie (Gateside) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 12lb 4oz. Mr Boylan & Cowan (Ayr) kept 12 fish weighing a total of 26lb and released a further 6. Mr Dawson (Kirkcaldy) kept 8 fish weighing a total of 18lb 8oz. Mr Strang & Barr (Kirkintilloch) kept 10 fish weighing a total of 23lb. Mr Wiseman (Dollar) kepr 4 fish weighing a total of 10lb. Mr Sturrock & Fotheringham (Dunfermline) kept 8 fish weighing a total of 20lb 8oz. Mr McNeill & Son (Grangemouth) kept 7 fish weighing a total of 15lb 4oz.
Club Returns: Longannet A/C: Kept 9 fish weighing a total of 21lb 120z. Bohemian A/C: kept 9 fish weighing a total of 20lb 3oz. Dunfermline Artisans: kept 41 fish weighing a total of 82lb 5oz. Ferry Fly Dressers: Kept 38 fish weighing a total of 89lb 3oz. Newtyle & Meigle A/C: Kept 24 fish weighing a total of 58lb 6oz.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Kate Maclaren, Black Pennell, GRHE, various buzzers. With the water temperature now rising the fish are at long last moving up in the water. Floating lines are now having more success. For the anglers fishing deeper: Coral & Yellow Dancers, Ace of Spades & Nomads.

Best Areas: Fish are being caught in all areas.

Week Ending 4/5/08
Individual Returns: Jim Flockhart (Darvel) and party kept 8 fishing weighing a total of 20lb 4oz. John McTear (Wishaw) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 11lb 8oz. Brian Moffat (Pennycuik) and party kept 13 fish weighing a total of 28lb 4oz and released a further 5. Mr Campbell (Aberfeldy) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 8lb and released 1. Robert Wilson (Dunfermline) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 14lb 8oz and released a further 16. Sam Davies (Cupar) fishing on a sporting ticket released 12. Mr Marshall (Glasgow) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 7lb 12oz and released 2. Mr Graham & Bell (East Kilbride) kept 12 fish weighing a total of 28lb. Mr Chandler & Son (Dunfermline) kept 7 fish weighing a total of 16lb 8oz.
Club Returns: Dunfermline Railway A/C: 35 fish weighing a total of 77lb 15oz. Dollar A/C: 25 fish weighing a total of 59lb 9oz. Milnathort A/C: 28 fish weighing a total of 28lb.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Coral & Yellow Dancer, Ace of Spades, Humungus and Nomad.

Best Areas: Down the South Shore from Smithscleuch Burn to the dam wall + the North Shore from the Dow Burn to the start of the dogleg.


Week Ending 27/4/08

Individual Returns: W Heuer kept 12 fish weighing a total of 27lb. Mr Maxwell & McIntyre (Edinburgh) kept 9 fish weighing a total of 17lb 8oz. Alastair Anderson (Dollar) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 7lb. Mr Godfrey & McBride) kept 11 fish weighing a total of 26lb 8oz and released a further 25.Stevie Nicoll (Crook of Devon) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 123lb 4oz and released 2. Steve Gordon (Stirling kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb 12oz. Ronnie Turnbull & Jimmy Millar (Tillicoultry) fishing with a sporting caught and released 19. Ian Porritt (Perth) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb and released 5. Mr Wiseman (Dollar) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 8lb 4oz and released 3. Robert Westwater (Glasgow) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 6lb 8oz and released 12. Murray Dunan (Auchterarder) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 4lb 4oz and released 2. Robert Baird (Menstrie) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 6lb and released 2. Sam Davies (Cupar) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb 12oz and released 13.
Club Returns: Dalzell A/C: Kept 24 fish weighing a total of 54lb. Edinburgh Civil Service A/C: Kept 29 fish weighing a total of 61lb 15oz. Grangemouth A/C: Kept 46 fish weighing a total of 108lb – heaviest 5lb. Kinross Ex-Servicemens A/C: Kept 15 fish weighing a total of 33lb 8oz.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Coral & Yellow Dancer, Ace of Spades, Nomad, Silover & Gold Humungus and from the bank the Ace of Spades and Leggy Bloodworm.

Best Areas: Down the Soth Shore from Smithscleuch Burn to the dam wall + the North Shore from the Dow Burn to the start of the dogleg.


Week Ending 20/4/07

Individual Returns: D.Blane kept 4 fish weighing a total of 10lb 4oz – heaviest 4lb 7oz. John Wilson (Dunfermline) 5 fish weighing a total of 12lb 8oz – heaviest 3lb 12oz and released a further 2. Robert Wilson (Dunfermline) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 6lb 12oz. Season Ticket Holder Robert Baird (Menstrie) kept his allocated 2 fish weighing a total of 4lb 8oz. John Beattie (Gateside) fishing with a sporting ticket caught and released 9. Alex Prentice (Clackmannan) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 4lb and released a further 4. Season Ticket Holder Jim Donnelly (Tullibody) kept 1 fish weighing 4lb 9oz and released a further 9.
Club Returns: Clubs had a tough weekend with strong North West Winds to contend with on Saturday & Sunday. Townhill A/C: 55 fish weighing a total of 133lb 8oz.Tillicoultry A/C: 6 fish weighing a total of 16lb 12oz.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Leggy Bloodworm, Olive Fritz Damsel, Cormorant, Ace of Spades, Nomad and Yellow Dancer

Best Areas: With the water now dropping the fish are spreading out to all areas of the fishery – the majority are getting caught on the South Shore from the Smithscleuch burn to the dam wall.


Report Week Ending 6/4/08

Individual Returns: Stevie Nicoll (Crook of Devon) 3 fish weighing a total of 7lb 8oz. Davie Simpson (Dunfernline) 3 fish weighing a total of 5lb 8oz. Robert Westwater (Glasgow) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 4lb u8oz and released a further 8. John Robertson (Auchterarder) kept 2 fish weighing 4lb and released 1. Archie Millar (Perth) caught and released 5. Alex Prentice (Clackmannan) kept 4 fish weighing 8lb 12oz and released 1. A. Glasgow (Strathallan) kept 2 fish weighing 5lb.

Club Returns: Catch 22 A/C: 3 anglers braved the wintry conditions on Sunday from the club and kept 4 fish weighing a total of 9lb.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Ace of Spades, Cormorant, Leggy Bloodworm and Fritz Olive Damsel.


Best Areas: Fishing with intermediate lines on the South Shore from the Corim Burn to the dam wall.


Report week Ending 30/3/08
Individual Catches: Mr Board (Huntingdon) 7 fish weighing a total of 17lb. R.Baird (Menstrie) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 8lb 60z and released a further 3. Davie Simpson (Dunfermline) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 7lb 4oz and released a further 3. B McCann kept 2 fish weighing 3lb 12oz. Season Ticket Holder Ben McGovern (Alloa) caught and released 6. Fred Patton (Falkirk) 5 fish weighing a total of 12lb and his son Scott 3 fish weighing 7lb 12oz. Mr Rankine (Falkirk) 2 fish weighing 4lb 4oz.
Club Returns: Luggiebank Fly Fishers : 15 fish weighing a total of 37lb – heaviest weighing 5lb 12oz.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Ace of Spades, Coral Booby, Leggy Bloodworm, Fritz Olive Damsel Dawsons Olive and various Dancers. The most successful line this week has been intermediate.

Best Areas: From the start of the dogleg to the dam wall on the South Shore.


Report Week Ending 16/3/08

Individual Catches: Stevie Nicoll & Paul Sharp (Crook of Devon) kept 9 fish weighing a total of 21lb. Mr Kerr (Menstrie) 5 fish weighing a total of 10lb 4oz. Tom McArtney (Menstrie) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 11lb and returned a further 3. Ian Anderson (Menstrie) kept 5 fish weighing a total of 11lb 4oz. Mr Strang & Son (Kirkintilloch) kept 8 fish weighing a total of 20lb 8oz and returned a further 12. Mr Barr (Kirkintilloch) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 9lb 4oz and returned a further 4. William Bremner (Dunfermline) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 8lb 2oz and returned a further 4. Season Ticket Holder Alan Hawthorne (Inverkeithing) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb 8oz and returned a further 12. Season Ticket Holder Robert Baird kept 2 fish weighing a total of 6lb and released a further 2. John Beattie (Gateside) fishing a sporting ticket released 9.

Favourite Fly/Lure: Cats Whisker, Olive Fritz Damsel and Bloodworm fished with an intermediate line.

Best Areas: From Corim Burn to the Dam Wall on the South Shore

Week Ending 9/3/08

The fishery has been plagued by high winds and heavy showers this week but for the anglers that were prepared to put up with the conditions they were rewarded with some excellent catches.


Individual returns: Mr Manson (Keith) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 9lb 6oz and returned a further 16. Mr Murray (Huntly) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 8lb 10oz and returned 7. Mr McCaw (Turriff) kept 4 fish weighing a total of 11lb 4oz – heaviest weighing 5lb and returned 6. Season Ticket holder Robert Baird (Menstrie) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb. Season Ticket holder Alex Prentice (Clackmannan) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 4lb 8oz and returned 6. Alex Galloway (Kinross) kept 3 fish weighing a total of 7lb 8oz and released a further 8. Season Ticket holder Bob McRobbie (Tillicoultry) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb and released 4. Ian Porritt (Perth) kept 2 fish weighing a total of 5lb and returned 2. Bobby Conlon (East Kilbride) kept 2 fish weighing 8lb 8oz - heaviest 6lb 2oz.

Best fly/lure: Cats Whisker, Fritz Olive Damsel, leggy Bloodworm.
Best area: South Shore from Corim Burn to Dam Wall


Report Week Ending 2/3/08

Frandy opened for the 2008 season on Saturday the 1st March with many anglers taking the fishery up on the weekend offer. Initially the weather looked good but unfortunately a strong North West Wind picked up and forced the majority of boat anglers in to fish from the shore.

Individual returns: Andy McReary (Dunfermline) and party kept 28 fish weighing a total of 64lb – heaviest 5lb 8oz. Jim Arnott (Cowdenbeath) and party kept 16 fish weighing 38lb.Ian Dickson (Dollar) 3 fish weighing 6lb 8oz and returned a further 6. Stevie Nicoll (Crook of Devon) 5 fish weighing 10lb 12oz.

Best fly/lure: Fritz Damsel, Yellow and Coral Dancers, Ace of Spades, Kate Maclaren, Leggy Bloodworm.

Best area: South Shore from Corim Burn to Dam wall

05/05/2008

Tweeddale Millennium Trout Fishery

Some of the returns APRIL 2008, Brian Brogan from Bathgate 12lb 6oz Brown,/ James Duffin, Edinburgh 14lb 4ozBlue , regular Eddie Peden, Winton released 2 rainbows over 10lbs/, Jimmy Murphy, Hawick 10lb 4oz Rainbow / Chick Telfer Gorebridge 16lb 6oz Blue/ J Mckee Bannockburn 18lb 5oz Rainbow/ B Muir Bannockburn 12lb 8oz Rainbow/ Dougie dowling 10lb Rainbow. Their have also been some cracking smaller fish ranging from 2lbs to 8lbs taken. Various patterns have been successful, Yellow Dancers, NO MADS, Damsels, Black /Green lures, Cats Whiskers and various Fritz patterns. Also taking fish in good numbers are, Bloodworm, black/silver, orange, flexifloss, blackstone buzzers and sunken daddies. Both the fly pools have been fishing very well despite the adverse weather conditions, and the new policy where anglers can select the fish they want to keep in their bag limit is proving very popular. The best 4 fish bag for this month went to Mr Flemming from somewhere in fife, he had 4 fish for 30lb which included 1 Blue 2 Rainbows and 1 Brownie. We are now running a monthly MILLENNIUM BIG FISH LEAGUE and will have a fish off at the end off the season with the first 3 anglers in every month competing to take the title and prize. APRIL 23rd NEW FISHERY RECORD! WELL KNOWN ANGLER CHRIS MACKENNA from Dalkeith Midlothian took 3 fish for 62lbs 2oz the biggest was 27lbs. Chris who is retired and only last year suffered from cancer has been fishing for years, he took his fish of the island pool using a diawl bach, he had 3 rainbows 1 at 27lbs 1 at 18lbs10oz and 1 at16lb 60z chris also released another double figured fish and several smaller ranging from 2lbs to double figures.This surely is a catch of a life time.!!!!!!! 24th April Drew Dickson,from Edinburgh 15lb Rainbow taken on Black/Green Buzzer, 24th April regular John Gilcrist, from Stirling 16lb Rainbow taken on GH Damsel. 1st MAY Keith Watson, from Berwick 16lb 6oz rainbow taken on Orange/Black Dancer. 3rd MAY Colin Weir Bannockburn, 14lbs 12oz BLUE taken on Bloodworm again on the 3rd MAY Mr Harrison Edinburgh, 15lb 2oz Rainbow, taken on Bloodworm. The goth A/C from STIRLING, had a good day, they managed for 18rods, 63 fish including Rainbow,Brown and Blue trout 265lbs their heavist fish went to Colin Weir who had a 14lbs 12oz BLUE TROUT. These are only a few of the fishery returns, the fishery has been fishing excellent and the quality and the fighting ability of the trout are truely exceptional. Their has been no set patterns, but Buzzers, Diawl Bachs, Bloodworm and Hoppers have taken fish in good numbers. Also doing well are Dancers,Damsels, Poppers, and Various Fritz patterns. Also Fishing very well is the Millennium Bait Pool, where anglers mostly using Power bait have remarked about the quality and fight that they are getting from these trout.

05/05/2008

Butterstone Loch

The loch continues to fish well with the majority of anglers now resorting to floating lines with nymphs and buzzers. The remaining few who are still using slow intermediates continue to be successful with a good starting point being a Cormorant and a couple of Buzzers or Diawl Bach’s on the droppers. The water temperature is now up to the usual May temperatures at 13.5 ‘C and water clarity is around normal 1.25m for this time of year. Oxygen levels are good with the rain and cool weather we have had over the past month. Evening sessions have now started and there are some great rises to be had on the warmer evenings.

Over the past week fishing has gone back to normal early season drifts with the majority of fish being taken in the margins from just outside the harbour up past the road shore and the reeds to the lilies. The average size of fish is now around the three lbs mark with plenty of fish in the 4-5 lbs class being weighed in.

Those featuring amongst the best baskets last week included Messrs. Eadie and Campbell who took their usual Tuesday slot and had another great day on floating lines with small nymphs and their trusty Green & Black Buzzers - they returned 20 between them. I Yuill weighed in 6 for 18lbs 2oz including a lovely Rainbow of 4lb 4oz, D Kerr also weighed in 6 for 16lb 8oz, Stanley Ghillie Dave Barwick managed to scrape 6 for 13lb 12oz and Messrs. Tredgill and Scougal weighed in 10 for 24 lbs and returned a further 6. On the club front Perth Anglers weighed in 23 fish for 54lb 4oz for 4 boats, Lothian & Borders Police AC weighed 76 fish for 196 lbs and returned a further 12 for 12 boats, Bothwell & Blantyre AC 44 fish for 109lbs for 7 boats, and Gartcosh AC took 51 fish for 134lb for 11 boats.

04/06/2007

Moffat Fishery

SUPERB” fishing at Moffat, with some excellent top of the water sport.

G Grear, L Smith and D Mills from Newcastle had an excellent few days releasing around 130 fish including a couple of rainbow’s at 17lb and 13lb.
G Grear had an exceptionally good week. Mr Grear taken 5 fish for 27.1lb and released a further 71 fish. The pattern’s used were cdc shuttlecock’s (with a buzzer on a dropper around 18 inches from the cdc.) and a Hares ear (size 18). Mr Grear commented – “FANTASTIC FISHING!!”. L Smith taken 2 fish for 11lb 1oz and released a further 27. Mr Smith commented – “BRILLIANT”. D Mills taken 2 fish for 10lb 5oz and released 26 fish. Mr Mills commented – “SUPERB FISHING”
M McVeigh taken 2 fish for 6 ½ lb, the pattern used was buzzers.
Jim McCaig and Jim Boardman from Dalbeattie taken 6 fish for 19.21lb, the pattern used was a Green Damsel.
D Nesbitt taken 2 fish for 6.4lb, the pattern used was a damsel. J Daly taken 2 fish for 6.2lb, the pattern used was a damsel. J Wilson taken 3 fish for 8lb 8oz on a zonker.
Mr Dunsmore taken 4 fish for 11lb 8oz.
Eck Moffat had a good day releasing 10 fish with weights up to 6lb. The method used by Eck was stalking. Eck commented “ONE OF THE BEST STOCKED WATERS AROUND.”
R McDonald released over 15 fish averaging at around 3lb.
Mr Welsh released 9 fish, with the largest estimated at 9lb, the pattern used was a Black Peacock Spider.
Ian Hayhoe from Carlisle released 5 fish with estimated weights form 3 – 5lb, the pattrerns used were buzzers.
I Ford from Hamilton released 8 fish on buzzers and dancers.
B Armstrong from Lockerbie released over 15 fish this week including a 12lb rainbow and a 5lb blue.

Top patterns this week are:

CDC Shuttlecocks
Damsel
Brown Buzzer

For more up to date info on what's catching, please call the fishery on 01683 221220

24/04/2007

Glensherup Fisheries

Saturday, 11th, March, 2006, saw the first Club outing of the season. Rainbow A/C from Glenrothes had seven boats out on a lovely day, they managed to catch 31 fish for a combined weight of 59 lbs. Some of the team caught their limit and returned around twenty fish. Despite the cold water the fish were not very deep and were taking mostly lures, black and green fritz, orange blob. Some anglers who had their limit also had great sport on small buzzers.

Saturday, 25th March, Newmarket A/C from Edinburgh, had six boats out and caught 22 fish with a combined weight of 44 lbs. Best fish of the day was a 5lb overwintered rainbow. Once again the fish are showing on the surface, but the recent heavy rain has slightly coloured the water but doesn't seem to be bothering the fish.

Saturday, 8th, April, Seafield A/C had six boats out and returned with 33 fish for a weight of 59lbs. Sunday, 9th, April, Moniefieth A/C had nine boats out and caught 42 fish with a weight of 75 lbs. Willie Meldrum one of Moniefieths members thought he had scored when hooked a monster only to discover at the net he had foul hooked a 15lb plus Pike, the Pike had previously been hooked as it had a lot of nylon round it. Willie thought before returning the fish he would cut of the old nylon. Whilst in the boat the Pike swung round a bit Willies hand causing several nasty puncture wounds.
There's gratitude for you. Most of the fish are being caught at the Burn end of the Loch on various lures, favourites are Dawsons Olive, yellow dancer.

AlexanderFFC had10 boats out last week and had47 fish for a weight of 85lbs. Curly Wilson (Cowdenbeath) had 6 fish for 12lbs. Neil McInnes (Glasgow) and his father had 10 fish for 21lbs. Cowdenbeath A/C had 10 boats out and caught a total of 39 fish for 82lbs. The water clarity has improved greatly and buzzers are the main killing fly, flexi floss with red/orange cheeks. On the lure side its mainly the hot head Damsel and Orange fritz.

This week saw Kinglassie A/C out with 4 boats they had 22 fish for 39lbs. Stanley A/C had 6 boats out and caught 31 fish for 52 lbs. Colin Smith and his boat partner caught 7 fish for 12lbs. With the weather warming up a bit there have been some good hatches of buzzers. Again the best catches have been comming at the Burn end of the Loch.

Over the past few days the weather has not been the best, but, the last two weeks saw 53 rods out in total and they caught 110 fish weighing 205lbs. Most fish have been caught on Ace of Spades, Yellow Dancer, black and green Fritz.

Once again the last two weeks have been quiet due to the World Cup. Around 50 rods have been out the past two weeks and the best fish caught so far was a fine 6 pounder. The average weight is still around the 2 lb mark, the fish are high in the water despite the sun and are taking Hoppers etc.

Whats this? TOP GEAR AT GLENSHERUP. Last week it was dead when all of a sudden a group of blokes arrived, did they want fishing, no. It was Jeremy Clarkson and a film crew wanting to use the Loch as a backdrop for an episode of Top Gear to be shown in the Autumn. So a rather boring day turned into an interesting one. So we hope that now the World Cup is nearly over the couch potatoes will get the rods out.

Apologies for the lack of updates, this was due my PC failing to work properly. During the rest of the ummer due to the excessive rise in water temp. the fish went down deep some over 50 feet making conditions to say the least difficult.
Mid September saw the water temp come back to normal and the fish came up. Several rods managed their bag limits up to the end of October. All in all a good season for sun bathing......not for fishing.

NEW SEASON

April, started off well compared to last year, some of the club returns are as follows....Newmarket A/C from Edinburgh had 5 boats and took 35 fish for a weight of 65lbs. Edinburgh City Fly Fishers 5 boats and took 36 fish for 63 lbs. Moniefieth A/C had 7 boats and took 40 fish for a weight of 71lbs Dunfermline Artisans had 7 boats and took 38 fish for 66lbs. Seafield A/C had 6 boats and took 40 fish for 73lbs. Thats the club returns up to date.

Best areas at the moment are long drift down far bank fishing close in to the Margins, intermediate lines are the preferred method at the moment. Some excellent overwintered fish have been caught near the Burn mouth at the top end of the loch. Best flies are Cats Whisker, Damsel Nymph, yellow dancers.

13/03/2007

Morayflyfishing and Glen of Rothes Trout Fishery

January 8, 2006
Some found it tough this week and some had good numbers of fish mainly due to temperatures dropping very quickly,sending fish down to the bottom,where intermediate lines and sinking lines were needed to get to them.Lures were the main fly and buzzers di show now and again but nothing like they have done in past weeks.Zander Christie had 11 fish,Brian Christie Jnr had 15 and 12 fish,Andy Taylor had 11 ,D Leech had 17,Ewen MacDonald had 15,Duncan McKenzie had 12,Stuart Hayden had 18,Mark Cormack 11 John McKenzie 10 and Jim Boyle had 10 fish.Main loch is open with plenty of water for fishing and the small loch was opening but hard frost saw it ice again.Temperatures this week will dictate how well it opens but the main loch will remain open all the time.
march 13th 2007
Fishing has been excellent over the past few weeks with top class quality fish being caught.Many of them Blues and all over the 4lb mark upto 7lbs.other good fish into double fugures have been caught aswell and are fighting hard.Now there is warmer weather fish are quite high in the water and it wont be long before they are taking off the top and its only wind which is keeping them just below the surface and buzzers slowly retrieved are producing exciting sport which anglers are enjoying.Some days when the weather is not so kind lures are needed but dont fish too deep as you will go way past them.new disabled platforms are now up and we are looking forward to a good years fishing.Competition dates are up and booking early is advised.

21/11/2006

Cwm Hedd Lakes

Cwm Hedd Fishing Report, to November 5th 2006

Varying patterns this week;bright,cold conditions and changeable wind directions have meant a good chance to land fish off any peg. Regular angler and Cwm Hedd guru Ken Pascoe took out his float tube and netted a 3lb rainbow plus a second 3lb off the bank, and 3 in Lodge Pond.
Mike Rogers from Machen bagged one for lunch and released a further 3 on black buzzers-nice chat about the different methods of growing mussels too!
Mike Bevan took home four from the main lake on montanas,damsels and hares ears and Margaret Allen brought in four on the lodge pond on white tadpoles.

24/05/2006

Howwood Trout Fishery

week ending Sunday 21st May 2006 - It’s been a great week for big fish with two 20-pound rainbows being caught and released. Jim Black from Spateston took the biggest at 22 pounds on a Hare lug nymph and young Joe Woods landed a cracker of 20lbs on a Damsel. Judging by the number of flies stuck in their mouths these big rainbows had been hooked and lost before by a few unlucky anglers.

Other good catches were Ally Lamb with 4 to 7lb, John Bicker from Kilmaurs returned 10 and son Graham released 6 J Cunningham weighed in 2 for 10-4 the biggest at 8-4, Graham Steele from Paisley returned 8, Eddie Chorley from Johnstone had 3 for 6-4, Bearsden angler Ian McArthur released 20, Scott McFarland returned 6,

D Thomson took 5 for 10-7, R Calderwood from Glasgow had 5 for 10-4 and J Thompson weighed 5 for 10-7.

Top flies last week were CDC’s, Millenium bug, Hot head damsels, Olive and black buzzers, Hare lugs and Diawl bachs.

Next Howwood Fly Fishers competition will be on Saturday 3rd June 9-00 to 4-00.

Usual catch and release rules apply.

Tel John on 01505 702 688 or visit www.howwoodtroutfishery.co.uk

11/05/2006

Drumclog Fishery

we have had returns of up to 22 by jim smith from muirkirk and 17 from scott robb from newmilns with other anglers catching an average of 5/6 in one day oh and scott also took a 20+pounder in his catch.
most anglers will use traditionals and be quite happy with rise on the water that they will stay on the trads all day .
wee keith also had his best day on the water for a year taking 10 with one at 11lbs p,s all these fish mentioned were retuned safely ,so please coma alomg and have a go .

22/04/2006

Loganlea Trout Fishery

Saturday 15th April saw reasonable weather, and saw 300lbs! plus of fish caught.

Robin Smith from The Rainbow Warriors club caught more than 20 fish, most of them were caught on a (Wishaw Flashback).

The average fish caught last week was 3lb 4oz.

Best Lure - black & green
Best Buzzer - lime green
Best Nymph - diawl bach