The 2012 season got started on Monday 18th June with Stinchar’s first of the season a 6lb fish straight from the sea. It was caught by Kenny Gibson on a small rapala while fishing Kirkholm. This was followed later that day with two from the Ballantrae Bridge. One of 3lb for Tom Lothian, the other […]
During April and early May, when most of the country had never ending rain, with flood warnings everywhere, the west of Scotland was completely dry. Rivers were already at summer levels, with no angling whatsoever. On May 11th the river rose about a foot, then after a very wet afternoon on Sun the 13th, it came […]
The River Stinchar opened on Sat 25th Feb. No one usually bothers going out as early as Feb but as it was a Saturday I thought it would be nice if we could have an official opening, then weather permitting, go for a cast. After a few calls to the riparian owners I managed to […]
September 10th 2011 After nearly 3 weeks of low water the river has burst back to life with lots of water this week, too much at times. Three afternoons then Saturday were all lost with high water. Ballantrae Bridge had 22 for the week. Knockdolian 27 notable catches – Mr Cairns 3 from Dalni, Ernie […]
July 2010 Barr bridge The season is finally under way after the prolonged drought ended last week-end with a 3ft rise on Sunday 11th. Rods were out early on Monday morning despite most of the water disappearing overnight. As far as I can gather the 1st fish off the river was caught by Phil Haughton […]
End of Season Report 2009 Finally the rains stopped and very slowly the river dropped by the beginning of December so we got started catching up fish for the hatchery. We had no problem getting fish – the only thing was the cocks were out-numbering the hens by about 3-1 in some parts of the […]
End Of Season Report 2008 Gordon’s big fish from Tig pool By mid September some really big fish moved into the river and fairly spiced things up. I am sure no one was complaining about catching lovely fresh fish even though the majority of them were below 8lbs and even more around 5lbs, but the […]
September 2006 The last week of August things really got going with plenty of water and good numbers of fish coming in. On one day both Knockdolian and Dalreoch rods had over 20 fish each with one rod on Knockdolian landing five fish from the Scaur at 14, 14, 10 & two at 6lb. Paul […]
