A beautiful blue

6ft Water Temp – 11.5C, Clarity (Secchi disc) 2.1m

DUE TO THE RECENT OUTBREAK OF FRESHWATER LICE, ANGLERS WILL NO LONGER BE ALLOWED TO BRING DROGUES AND BASS BAGS TO THE LAKE. WE NOW HAVE SUFFICIENT DROGUES FOR ALL AND PLASTIC BAGS WILL BE PROVIDED. Please exercise caution, common sense and good disinfection procedures with regards to boots and any other piece of equipment as we wish to keep the Lake lice free.

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R Stuart 11lb Rainbow

All three lochans fished well this week. The seasonal autumn weather conditions has provided great sport for fly and bait fishers.  Many anglers bagged their fish limits catching Rainbow Trout, Blue Trout and Brown Trout. The average weight was just over 3lb per fish.

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S Hubbard 5lb 8oz Blue

September proved to be another top of the water month, we have had fish taken off the top every single day, sometimes in pretty horrific conditions, best dries for the month proved to be daddies, hoppers in black, claret and harelug and cdc’s in black, olive, harelug and brown. The buzzer sport has also improved greatly with the black buzzer still leading as the top colour, best other colours have been, olive, brown, orange and also the okey dokey, buzzers have been more consistent fished under an indicator sometimes really high in the water, another top method throughout the month has been a buzzer on a dropper and a dry on the point, this has kept the buzzers high where the fish have been, even on the coldest windiest days, the fish have been in the top couple of feet, lure fishing was very poor at the beginning of the month but has started to improve now the water is cooling down, best lure by far has been the hothead damsel, followed by the yellow dancer, rabbits have also been deadly at times.

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All three lochans fished well this week for both fly and bait anglers using good tactics.  Many anglers bagger their fish limits catching Rainbow Trout, Blue Trout and Brown Trout up to 16lb in weight.  The average weight was just over 3lb per fish.

Best flies: Cormorants, Muddler Minnows, Mini Lures (Vivas, Ace Of Spades, Dancers), Diawl Bachs, Buzzers on a long leader or midge tip. Best Baits: Ledgered Worms, Floated Maggots, Size 0 Mepps Spinners fished slowly.

TWO Very Large Specimen Trout were caught this week:

15lb 12oz rainbow trout - Ronnie Loos (Stirling) on a Baby Doll Lure

15lb rainbow trout - S Totten (Stirling) on a White Fritz Lure

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Well Done Bill!!

All three lochans fished well this week for both fly and bait anglers using good tactics.  Many anglers bagger their fish limits catching Rainbow Trout, Blue Trout and Brown Trout up to 15lb in weight.  The average weight was just over 3lb per fish.

Best flies: Cormorants, Muddler Minnows, Mini Lures (Viva, Appetiser, Dancers), Diawl Bachs, Buzzers on a long leader or midge tip. Best Baits: Ledgered Worms, Floated Maggots, Size 0 Mepps Spinners fished slowly.

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6ft Water Temp – 12C, Clarity (Secchi disc) 2.m

Another week of wild and mild saw the main focus of fishing activity around Sam’s or Reedy Point, Shear Point and Lochend. Dry fly continues to be reported as top method – over the weekend. Well done to the Scots fishing at the International at Grafam Reservoir in England. They got silver but were a good way (29 fish) behind winners England (congratulations to them). As the Scottish Internatonal Secretary Tom Mactaggart says “ 3 golds and two silvers out of the last 5 matches is a good run”. The main tactics in use were apparently tweaking buzzers etc on the hang and the English were able to find other holding areas once the main hot spot at the dam wall switched off.

Shane Kelly

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