At Ballantrae Bridge Robert Redhead’s party caught 9 salmon and four sea trout during the week beginning 6th October including an 18lb cock fish from the Lower Bridge Pool caught by Robert Stock. Following week, water level dropped to low summer height and the Bond party caught 1 grilse and 1 sea trout with Saturday […]
The dry spell finally ended with torrential rain on Friday October 3rd. On the Saturday morning the river was just below 5ft on the gauge on Colmonell Bridge. Farther heavy showers all morning kept it running high and dirty and also full of leaves rendering it unfishable all day. Sunday, the water had fined down […]
River Stinchar report, week ending 17th August 2014 The season so far on Stinchar has been a non-event really. It seems so long ago, Les Howarth got us off the mark with his fish on May 8th then again on the 20th. Since then we had an incident of fish dying in the river. A […]
We now have installed a new marker on Colmonell bridge – one which can be read from the camera. I contacted Glyn Howells from Farsons during the winter with the view to zooming in to be able to see the gauge clearly without the imposing scale in the view. Glyn informed me the only way […]
The honour of landing the first fish of the season goes to Les Howarth. Les was spinning midway down the Duchat on Colmonell Club water on the morning of May 8th when he hooked and landed a sea-liced fish around 6lbs. The fish was quickly returned and sent on its way. Well done Les!! It […]
RIVER STINCHAR DISTRICT SALMON FISHERY BOARD Board Meeting The next meeting of the River Stinchar DSFB will take place on the 14th of May, 2014 at Colmonell Hall, Colmonell on 14th May, 2014 at 5.30pm. This meeting is open to the Public although only Board Members may contribute. RIVER STINCHAR DISTRICT SALMON FISHERY BOARD Annual […]
The season ended on the 31st October on Stinchar, and like last season, for the majority of the beats, most were pleased to see the end. I found it quite amusing on the last day as I drove to work over Colmonell Bridge. No cars to be seen, all the desperadoes who are usually there […]
Ballantrae Bridge and Balnowlart are getting a few fish, around a dozen each for the week which is poor for the time of year. Knockdolian had 27 both weeks commencing 9th and 16th September. Stuart Cronans party had 16 for the week; Mr Cherry’s party had 7 inc fish of 14 & 15lbs and a […]
The River Stinchar Board will be convening in the month of October. On the Agenda one of the subjects to discuss will be the event that occurred on the river last week. Members of the Board will be looking again at our voluntary ‘Code of Practice’ and addressing why under such exceptional circumstances, its guide […]
August was a very difficult month with only the very odd freshet. Dalreoch faired best with a few Grilse as did Balnowlart but overall the fishing was very slow. September started the same with very low water until Sat 7th heavy rain in the morning lifted the river by 2ft. This was very slow to […]
