News Archive
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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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Invasive Species Officer
in EnvironmentThe Ayrshire Rivers Trust has appointed Meryl Norris in charge of the task of ridding our rivers of Japanese Knotweed & Himalayan Balsam. Meryl was previously with the Cromarty Trust on a similar project and comes highly recommended. She certainly will be busy on parts of the river, particularly with the Balsam. www.ayrshireriverstrust.org/cisp/ Please refer to
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Fishing Report May 2012
in FishingDuring 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
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Fishing Report Feb 2012
in FishingThe 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
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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