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Lake of Menteith 11th June

Clarity 3.2m 6ft Water temperature 16C
The exceptional clarity continues and water temperature has
dropped back down to 16c at 6ft with a return to slightly
cooler temperatures.  We had a wee bit of floating weed last
week at the Lake – an unusual and interesting phenomena but
not significant enough to be a problem to the anglers who had
great sport with rises at Lochend and deeper in the cages.
Good clarity can apparently cause an increase in the growth
of this filamentous algae, as more light gets through to where
it resides – at the bottom in shallow areas. The weed is
carried to the surface by the bubbles of oxygen produced by
photosynthesis (as the water heats up the oxygen comes out
of the water).  Dries were the top tactic in recent days when
weather permitted and there has been some big hatches of
mayfly, sedges, chironomids (buzzers and caenis). The
daphnia is out in force and this is usually followed by the
pinhead  coarse fry. Successful tactics in the cages have been a little deeper, at the
burnmouth  end.  Our first early morning session is this weekend and there are plenty
of boats left.  Recent early mornings have been fantastic. This was the fly fishy scene
between the  islands last Saturday at about 6am.

Scottish  Club Championships
Sat night saw  13 teams compete in Heat 6. After a very hot day conditions changed and
a blustery  south wind got up. Most of the boats were headed to Gravel Bank,
Lochend  Bay, Tods Hole and Bogle Knowe.  By 9.00 p.m. the wind fell away,
conditions  improved and fish were seen rising. Alba Orvis "B" were heat winners
with 32 trout  for 66lb 4oz (pictured right)  2nd place to Menteith Ospreys "B" with 29
trout for  58lb  4 oz  3rd place to Canmore AC (Forfar) with 13 trout for 26lb  5oz.

These teams  progress to the  semi final on 16th Aug.
Top 5  anglers on night and qualifying for Champion of Champions were: 1st 
Paul Garner   (right, centre) Alba Orvis F.F. 12 trout  24lb 9 oz, 2nd George Whyte
Menteith  Ospreys 12 trout 24lb 1oz, 3rd Gregor Fleming Alba Orvis (pictured right
on left) F.F.   10 trout 21lb 1 oz, 4th David Bonnington (pictured righton right) Alba
Orvis F.F. 10  trout 20lb 10 oz and 5th Ronnie Gilbert Menteith Ospreys 9 trout for 20
lb 6 oz.  Heaviest fish on night was rainbow of 5lb  6oz caught by Ronnie Gilbert
of Menteith  Ospreys .  Total catch by the 39 anglers was 124 trout with 73 of these
released. The  captain of winning team and the captor of heaviest basket were awarded
bottles of  Speyburn Highland Malt whisky courtesy of Inverhouse.  The captor of
heaviest fish  on the night received a bottle of Famous Angler by Grouse.  Paul
Garner’s top  tactics were using the washing line at Lochend. His top buzzer was a size
12 olive.

Some nice perch on the go in recent weeks. Gregor Fleming sent me this photo
labelled 2 ½ lb perch (they are heavy boned) and Derek Keenan pasted this roach onto
his facebook.

In the Anglian Water Scottish Day on Monday Heat Change A FF (above; l to r Jim Crawford, Andy Dunn, Jock Kettles, Kevin McCabe, Carl Nixon and Willie Leach) were top team with 46 fish, second were Thalassa AC Derek Pozzi, Stevie Nicol, Derek Purves,
Stuart Malcolmson, Agnes Thomas and Martin Williams with 39 fish. In 3rd place and also qualifying on fish caught were Grizzlecats

(Peter Edge, Davie Paterson, Ian Muir, Graham Steele, Fraser Cuthert and John Morton. The rod average for the day was heat was 5.4 and most of the Change action appeared to be in Gateside Bay.  Shane Kelly was top bag with 12 fish.

In the Anglian Water Evening Heat the rod average fell to 3.44 and top team on the night was Saltire Flyfishers (Gus Shepard, David McAllister, Laurie Taylor, Billy Foster, Derek Keenan and Robbie Baldi). In second place were Menteith Ospreys (Peter Auchterlonie,
Campbell Morgan, Wullie Simpson, George whyte, Ronnie Gilbert and James Fairlie). The top bag on the night was Gus Shepard with 10 fish who was fishing dries at Lochend.

In the fifth night of the Boat
League – sponsored by  James Baynes fishing tackle
Callander, the 23 anglers landed 119 trout. Top rod was
Alan MacLachlan with 12 fish. In second place was James Fairlie on
10 and George Whyte was 3rd with 9. Most of the action was dries at Lochend.

Left Stewart Marshall sent me this
one of Paul Garner and James Kerr (with the fish) during a
recent SANACC Heat.