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Issued by Jim Boyd on behalf of the following fisheries on Tuesday, 21 February
2012
The following reports are for the week ending Sunday, 19 February, 2012.

1. FRANDY (Gleneagles) The fishery will open on Thursday 1st March when dark

coloured lures fished deep are likely to do best.

2. FORBES OF KINGENNIE (Broughty Ferry) NO REPORT THIS WEEK

3. HOLL (Fife) NO REPORT UNTIL MARCH 2012

4. MARKLE (East Lothian) It was a very quiet week with few venturing out. Tommy

Dickson from Dunbar used a Damsel to take a nice rainbow of 8lbs 8oz, Keith

Watson from Newcastle had 3 for 12lbs 7oz on a Bloodworm and Steve Rodgers,

Prestonpans, caught 3 for 7lbs 8oz on a Cat’s Whisker. Gordon Dadd from Pathead

had a fine 8lb 8oz fish on a Black Lure.

5. MORTON LOCH (Livingston) The fishing has been extremely good recently with

Buzzers or Bloodworm imitatives being by far the top taking patterns. Iain Dobbie

had a couple of good days taking 6 and 12 respectively on C+R tickets, R Anderson

had 9, Wallace Muir took 3 for 10lbs and R Kerr caught 4 for 12lbs. Also doing well

was Archie Dalziel with 3 for 11lbs, Gary Paton managed 4 for 11lbs 14oz and David

Paton took 4 for 10lbs.

6. ORCHILL LOCH (Braco) With the water being extremely cold after being frozen

for just over a week the fish have been taking a bit deeper than usual and a very,

very slow retrieve is essential. All colours of lures have been taking fish and buzzers.

The forecast is milder again this week so that is good news.

Mark Brownrigg from Callander had a nice brace weighing 6lbs 8oz on a Green

& White Fritz, Dave Horne, Stirling, 2 for 5lbs 8oz on a Hare’s Ear, Ron Lusher,

Perth, 2 for 5lbs 12oz on a Black & Green Fritz and Fay MacLeod from Perth used

a Green Fritz to take a brace weighing 6lbs. Bob Garvie from Lennoxtown caught 3

fish for 8lbs on a Black Damsel, Thomas Size, Edinburgh, 4 for 10lbs 8oz on a Cat

and Peter Paterson Jnr, Menstrie, 3 for 9lbs 8oz on a Pinkhead Dancer.

7. ORCHIL LOCH COARSE PONDS (Braco) NO REPORTS UNTIL MARCH 2012

8. SWANSWATER (Stirling) The fishing at Swanswater continues to be pretty good

with plenty of Tigers, Blues and big Rainbows featuring in the catch returns. A

milder week saw the fish tending to shoal round the island although the Tigers were

mostly in the area around the bridge and the burn mouth. Temperature fluctuations

saw the fish moving between the channel between the island and the roadside and

the main area of Swanswater.

time of day. Most fish were landed on a wide variety of small lures, although some

were taken on nymphs, wet flies and buzzers.

of fish were also landed on dry flies on the Millpond.

Dancer, Cat’s Whisker, Fritz, Damsel, Hare’s Ear, Diawl Bach, Bloodworm, Corixa

In general they were on and off depending on the

Unusually for February, a couple

Favourite patterns included

and Spider.

Willie Martin, Stirling, took the biggest fish of the week, a cracking 11lb 10oz

Rainbow in his bag for 3 for 16lb 4oz, Danny Doherty, Denny, also did well,

taking 4 for 16lb 12oz including 9b 8oz Rainbow, a Blue and a Tiger, Angus

Auchinachie, Falkirk, 9lb 4oz Rainbow and Sean Hill, Alloa, 8lb 14oz Blue from

Millpond. Willie Hancock, Glasgow, 2 for 10lb 8oz including 8lb 8oz Rainbow, Bob

Erskine, Kincardine, 2 for 10lb including 7lb Rainbow, Archie Smith, Ardrossan,

5 for 22lb including 2 Blues at 6lb 13oz and 6lb 12oz and 4lb 8oz Rainbow and

Alfred Sandford, Grangemouth, 2 for 9lb. Nigel Muckle, West Calder, 4 for 11lb 8oz,

George Reid, Glasgow, 4 Tigers for 9lb, Jim Minnes, Stewarton, 3 for 10lb including

2 Tigers, Jim Donnelly, Milton of Campsie, 3 for 9lb 12oz including a Blue and David

Pattinson, Dunfermline, 3 Tigers for 6lb 4oz. Ronnie Anderson, Oakley, 2 Tigers for

5lb 4oz and John Duncan, Greenock, 5lb 4oz Rainbow.

9. LOCH VENACHAR (Trossachs) NO REPORT THIS WEEK

ENDS