Author: Admin
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Conservation
The Board has implemented a number of conservation initiatives in order to improve fish breeding conditions in the river system: Hatchery Smolt Trap implementation Habitat surveying Electro fishing surveys Temperature Data loggers LIFE Salmon Project Habitat Quality A detailed habitat survey was completed to full industry standard in 2003, which will help ensure that restoration
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Methods of Fishing
in FishingFor the fly fisher the River Stinchar is best fished on the rise, i.e. just as the river starts to rise and before it gets too coloured after a spate. It is then advisable to wait till the river starts to clear and fall, though the dedicated angler can take fish on a big coloured
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Fishing Guide
in FishingThis guide to fishing the River Stinchar is not intended for the experienced angler or the angler with a good knowledge of the river. Nor is it intended to instruct anglers on the art of fishing. No man knows it all. Fishing is not an exact science and we have all had numerous blank days
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News 2011
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
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News 2010
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
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News 2009
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
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News 2008
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
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News 2007
in NewsSeptember 2007 Despite the lack of water for most of the month the river continued to fish well. At Ballantrae Bridge they had 58 for the month, with only the 2nd week being a bit disappointing with only 4. Best week the last with 23. This beat has continued to return around 60% of all
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News 2006
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