Category: Fishing
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End of Aug
in FishingAugust has been another month of continuous water with a number of good spates, one of which reached 9ft at Colmonell on Monday 27th. The whole month has seen water levels, which allows fish to run the river as they please. This results in no build up of fish in the tidal reaches and is…
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Aug
in FishingDown at Ballantrae Bridge, Robin Mulholland’s party have had thirteen so far with a good few more lost. Balnowlart has fished well and as of Tuesday had ten; two for Andy Ewing, best 9lb. Two for Stuart Lang, both grilse. One for Kenny Gibson and one for Hugh McLatchie. I went down late afternoon and…
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Aug update – more details to come
in FishingOn Monday 6th Aug after torrential rain the river was hit by flash flooding rising to around 7.5ft – this coincided with high pressure moving in and the arrival of a substantial number of grilse. Rods out on Tuesday had some bumper catches! Some rods were left very frustrated that they couldn’t keep a hold…
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July 2012
in FishingOver the last 2 weeks of July there hasn’t been many big lifts in the water levels, just a few small freshets with the only decent rise on Wednesday 25th July when it reached 3.6 on the bridge at Colmonell. At Ballantrae Bridge, Kenneth Hyslop and Robert Dalrymple had beauties of 15lb and 14lbs and…
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fishing June into July
in FishingThe following week beginning July 2nd Kenneth Hyslop a member of the Ballantrae Bridge syndicate landed a 9lb fish from Jean’s. Another member, David Mc Illwraith had one around 10lbs from McKenna on Sat 7th Balnowlart is having a lean time with the fish not stopping. I had a fish of 7.5lbs on Sat and…
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June fishing
in FishingThe water dropped away until rain on Fri 29th had it back up to 6ft on Fri night. Sat morning it was 3’8’’ at Colmonell Bridge and it wasn’t long before the reports of fish caught were flying about via text messages. This is a perfect height for the Club water and Sandy Wilson had…
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June Update
in FishingAfter the deluge at the weekend the river rose to the biggest flood for a good few years. Anglers were out in force first thing Monday morning and the catches were as follows; Wm Marshall 14lb Kirkholm, Colmonell Angling Club had three, 11lb, 14lb and 6lb for Sandy Wilson, Gary Burdon and another respectively. Up…
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Fishing update June 2012
in FishingThe 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…
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Hatchery
The Hatchery at Minuntion opened in 2000. It has capacity for 100,000 eggs and has, since its inception, averaged 50,000 eggs annually. Brood stock are caught in November and early December, hens out number the cocks, by three to one. These fish are held in separate tanks, until the females come into season. The fish…