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Lake of Menteith 26th June

6ft Water Temperature 16C , Clarity (Secchi disc) 2.1m.

Proper heat is beginning to build in the water
column and clarity is gradually improving as
the nutrients get used up by the algae which
eventually falls to the bottom. The Anglian
Water Heats and finals have been taking place
at the Lake today and half the fleet appeared
to be in Gateside Bay, cracking jokes in the
flat calm, as I took these pictures of the “pets”
that swim outside the pens in Gateside. There
are fish there in the high teens…..at least……I
think so….

33rd Disabled International Over the two days
the 4 teams of 7 weighed in 122 fish for 274lbs
and returned 39 fish. The winners were Scotland
with 55 fish, second were Ireland with 38 fish, 3rd
Wales on 36 and 4th England with 32. Top rod
was Bill Barnes from Glenrothes with 4 fish on
day 1 and 12 fish on day two. Bill is pictured
below exploiting a loop hole in the smoking law
by pulling on this water vapour smoke look alike
containing nicotine substitute. His day two fish
were taken on buzzers and nymphs from reedy
Point to the Island. Below: The successful team at
the Lake front – and some Wullie and Iain.

In the Scottish Club Championships, sponsored by
GROUSE Whisky and ANGLING ACTIVE, 16 three
man teams caught 80 fish for 190lbs and returned 70. Top
team on the night were Falkirk FD with 19 for 40lbs 9oz. In
second place were Strathleven and third place were Brechin.
The top bag on the night was Donald Forbes of Strathleven
AC who looked me in the eye and told me (and I believe
him) that he caught his fish on a midge tip with a cat booby
on the Bob, a biscuit booby on the tail and a quill cormorant
and green tinsel diawl bach hung out in the middle. More
detailed results at www.sanacc.org.uk/2012_heats.html

In the seventh Heat of the BAYNES TACKLE
(Callander) Menteith Boat League 20 anglers caught 47
fish. A moderate SE wind was blowing, which as the night progressed got increasingly chillier!
Certain boats seemed to fair better than others with the top 4 anglers in two boats, George
Whyte of Crieff - 7 fish & James Fairley 5 paired together and Ronnie Robb 7 fish and Mark
Stephens 5 fish also out together. George was in first place on the evening catching his first fish
at 6:15 and according to him he had his fish on buzzers caught in the Butts. He also had a resident
fish which tipped the scales at 6lb 10oz! Full league table on the Menteith web site. Thanks also
to secondary sponsor Taste of the Trossach’s Callander. DD

Anglian Water AirFlo International

In the first day heat; Tweed Valley T’Anglers (45 fish), Leven Fly Casters (41), Neilston
Flyfishers (40), Change Flyfishers A Team (38) and Grizzle cats (33) progressed at the expense
of Butcher Boy (28), Heron FF(28), Heather FF (24) and Perth RASC (25). Best Bag was David
Wales who was fishing in the cages with boobies and diawl bachs. The 54 anglers caught 302 fish
of which 202 were returned. In the evening Final Leslie and Glenrothes and Change B qualified
for the Finals in England with Menteith Ospreys loosing out by 5oz. A harder night say the 60
anglers catching 160 fish of which 93 were weighed in.

Colin Riach sent me this shot of an Orkney brownie with those amazing spots that I remember as
a bairn and this amazing big fish took my wee red devil on my first visit to the Teith this year.