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If you don't have tackle of your own, and you want to have a go,
we have both fly and bait rods, nets, a large selection of flies and lures all
here on site - all you need to bring is yourself. We have a heated lodge, with
toilet facilities for the disabled, as well as a sitting area and a selection of
snacks and hot and cold drinks. Car parking is right beside the lodge, and 30 metres
from the lochs, but disabled anglers are welcome to drive right up to the edge of
the water.
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Order flies direct, no post or packing charged. All flies are hand tied and tied to last on Kamasan hooks, with only the best quality materials used. Just ask for details!
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Stalking and Shooting for Deer, Duck and Geese! |
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Stalking and shooting for deer, duck and geese can be arranged on one of the highland estates when in season , along with fishing for salmon and seatrout and wild brown trout on river Spey, Findhorn and many hill lochs.
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May 5, 2008
results of this years winter league are as follows:-
1st J Rhind
2nd W Petrie
3rd J Lawton
heaviest individual bag C Boyle
The April bonus weight worked quite well and next year we will do it again as it just went to prove that the last month with the bonus weight to play for can make the difference and is worth going for even if you have had a couple of bad results trhough out the months previous.well done to the winners and to all those who entered and thankyou for your support.Our next and first competition of the season is on the 25th May 08 and is the Bill Mclennan memorial.new rules will be applied for the first time and should make it amuch better competition because of it and a more open competition more of skill than a 1 big fish wins it.If you wish to enter give the fishery a call to place your names.01340831888 or 07967 466973
May 11, 2008
Bright sunshine put fish down a little this week but it still didnt stop fish from being caught once they were found at depth.Small and black flies worked best and cdc,s also did well and on hottest days it was down to the blobs which worked best.Good hatches of gnats and olives also mayfly helped bring fish to feed on the surface and duplicating the hatches was the key.Alec Simpson caught a beauty of a ifh at 8lb 6ozs and Jack Lawton had 12 fish with his best a fish of 10lbs,gordon Grant who had 13 fish also had a carp of 6lbs which went back into the coarse pond,Walter Sim had a fin perfect 5lb 9oz fish and Stevie Wright had fish of 5lb 2 and 5lb i his bag,Willie petrie had fish of 4lb 3oz and 4lb 1oz,shades had a 4lb 13oz,john Bruce a 4lb 14ozMike Matthews had 19 with his best at 4lb 12ozs,Rob Garthshore snr had a fish of 4lbs,Jim eddie had 10,John McKail had 23 and J Mckail jnr had 17,Gavin Crombie had 22 and rob Crombie had 14.Blues are featuring well in catches and also Brown trout from 1/2lb upto 6lb mark which is good to see.Our first competition of the year is on 25th May and should prove to be alot better with different rules for it making it more skillfull and not just a case of the biggest fish wins the day.Hot food is now available at the fishery and anglers can benefit from a breakfast before they start with bacon rolls,burgers chips etc and a fish and chip special on a friday.Evenings are fishing really well and prices for a session are flexible if you finish late and fancy a fish.
April 27, 2008
What an excellent week of fishing anglers have enjoyed with the better weather and fish now well on the move and active on the top taking dries and suspender buzzers doing very well.Andy Taylor had 3 double figure carp and heaviest landed was 18lbs,Blues also featured well as did Browns,anthony Robson had 4 blues and a nice Brown in his 18 fish bag,Cameron Milne was a lucky angler with £100 for a tagged fish,Stevie Wright did very well with 31 fish as did Jim eddie,Slater Scott had 26 fish Walter Sim with 12 and fish of 5lb 8 and 4lb 8ozs among themWillie Petrie had a 4lb 1oz,Julian Land had 16 fish,Abigail Montgomery had 10,Jimmy Rhind had 15,J McGovern had 11,Ian munro continued his godd fishing with a 5lb 10ozs fish among his 12,george Puller had a 4lb 2ozs fish,Bob fraser had 12 with his best at 5lb 13oz,Andy Fraser had 15 with a4lb 8ozs fish,Mike Matthews had 17 fish and a 4lb 8ozs fish and Terry Campbell had 10 fish with a fish of 4lb 3ozs.With plenty of fish moving the sport is excellent and all are enjoying some very good sport and very good bags.With the addition of hot food aswell now onsite for breakfasts, burgers, bacon rolls etc,Just place your order and pick it up when you want.Names are now being taken for the competition on the 25th may
April 20, 2008
A good week with plenty of fish being caught and buzzers and smaller flies coming into their own with the onset of the better weather.terry Campbell had 18 fish for his day and Jimmy George had 17.Eric Paton hooked into a carp of 20lbs on a red Zonker among his 12 fish catch,Jack Lawton had 22 with a nice 4lb 8ozs fish,jim eddie had 22 fish with a 4lb 14 and another 4lb 14 ozs fish,Julian Land had 14 with a 4lb 8oz fish,willie Petrie had 12,John McGovern had 14,John Ovens had a fish of 4lbs,willie Duncan a fish of 4lb 1ozs and Steve Urwin a 4lb 2ozs fish among his catch.brian Murdoch had a fish of 4lbs and Archie Miller had one of 4lb 3ozs,Mark Tait had 10 fish with his best a nice fish of 6lbs 2ozs and Craig macbeth had a nice 4lb 11ozs fish.Fish are quite high now in the water and dries and suspender buzzers will work well in black and hares ear colours as insects are abundant and fish actively taking,especially around the margins rather than the deeper areas of the lochs.Always the added bonus of a possible large Carp ine warm weather so dont fish too light and these must be returned unharmed.
April 13, 2008
Their was plenty of good fishing this week and with some good numbers being caught and among them was a 4lb 15 ozs Brown trout for Duncan Taylor.zander Christie on the coarse Loch had some very nice carp,heaviest of 7lbs and a golden Orf of nearly 2lbs.Phil Bieske had a good day with 17 fish and among them was a 5lb 30z and a 4lb 4ozs fish,Jim eddie had a fish of 5lbs,Jim george a nice 5lb 8ozs fish and into good numbers of fish were,del Mcpherson with 11,Mike matthews,11,Jim Thompson 11,Chris Boyle 11 and Mike Geddes 11,Slater Scott had 19,J Mckail 17 and both Tom Anderson and Willie Petrie had 10 each.Fish were mostly on Buzzers and okey dokeys in lime and white were best and even dry fly came into being this week which is good to see a bit of top water sport starting.names are now being taken for the Bill McLennan competition on May 25th .
March 31, 2008
better weather this week was good to see and made fishing more enjoyable for fishing and encouraged fish to come higher in the water which only added to the encouragement for anglers to see fish moving after a long spell of cold .
buzzers made a rapid return to form and old favourites like blobs and lures all did well.John mcKail had 26 fish on his visit,jim Eddie had 15 and it was a welcome sight to see a yougster damian Sinclair ,only 5yrs old,catch 2 fish and return a fish of 8lb plus on his first time out.John mcGovern had 13,William Salmond had a nice fish of 4lb 11ozs,John peterkin had a fish of 8lb 2oz,Dod Burnett had fish of 6lb 8oz and 5lb 9ozsand jamie Sinclair had a fish of 5lb 12ozs.willie Petrie from Perth had a good bag of fish with a nice one of 5lb 12ozs.Fish are fighting really well at present and giving very good sport and also at times patience is needed when they switch of before they settle down with warmer conditions.
March 17, 2008
A week of good weather certainly did the trick for many anglers with plenty of fish about and better fishing tactics suited to better weather made it alot more interesting than deep winter tactics.John Mckail had 40 fish for his day,Slater Scott had 26,J Christie had 25,with an 8lb fish and 4 over 4lbs,Gordon grant had 19 as did Jimmy Rhind with a 5lb 9 and a 4lb 14oz fish among them.Jimmy Eddie had a cracker of 10lbs 1oz,Stevie Wright had a nice 5lb fishand Ben Cresswell had 2 nice fish of 6lbs 8ozs and 5lb 12oz.Mike Matthews had 21 and eric paton had a fish of 4lb 7oz.
Alot will depend on weather conditions and change tactics to suit and this will make the difference.
February 24, 2008
An excellent week of fishing was had by most this week and fish were in the top layer of water and lures seemed to be the more taking fly but buzzers did take their share also.Cormorants did take some of the bigger fish with Stevie Wright of fort william with a 6lb 8oz and a 4lb 9ozs fish.Bill Anderson who does take alot of good fish on his outings continued with a nice one of 7lb 5ozs,Brian Christie jnr had 12 fish with 3 over the 4lbs,Chris Meacham had fish of 6lbs,Gordon Grant had 12 fish with his heaviest at 4lb 4ozs.continuing with the 12 fish trend was david reid,jim Eddie,Phil Bieske and John McGovern with 14 and Jimsy George with 10 fish along with Mark Tate who also had 10.lewis Ross had a 5lb 2oz and Julian Land had a 4lb 7oz to cap a good week.Inverness angling club also had a good outing and plenty of fish were taken by them with the heaviest of 5lb 1oz.Anglers are all commenting on how hard the fish are fighting and the condition of them with some been broken by some of the bigger ones.Most have been using intermediete lines and floating lines due to fish being high and slower retrieves have worked better.
February 17, 2008
With a fresh spring air this week early morning frosts and warmer sun through the days,put fish in a more fussy mood.Some days they were keen and some quieter untill the sun cam down and they began to feed harder.Best times were early and late on,and with nights stretching,giving alot more fishing time to try different methods and depths to entice them to the fly.many good fish were taken despite the sun and Best went to Mr McDougall with a 12lber,Chris Appleby had a nice fish of 8lbs,David Reid a 6lb er,Rob Garthshore snr a 6lb 6oz,Jim Eddie a 5lb 6oz,Jamie Sinclair a 5lb 2oz,Colin Moffat a 5lb 11oz and Btian McPhail a 5lb fish.John McGovern had 12 fish,Mike Matthews 18 and G Skinner had 12 fish.Best flies have gone from orange fritzs and blobs to lime and black buzzers and lures in same colours.Floating an dintermediate lines have been the working tools.
February 10, 2008
Getting fish this week was about having the correct line for the job and the clues to this were on the water itself.With fish moving just subsurface a floating line and suspender buzzer,washing line style was the method to use as Gavin Addison found out and had 12 fish with his best at 4lb 2ozs.For james Rhind his day was topped by a fish of 11lbs 4ozs among 16 fish with another of 6lb 12 ozs and his weight for 4 fish was 23lbs 8ozs.Tony Jenkinson had a fish over 8lbs,Slater Scott had a nice blue of 2lb 11oz,Joe Andrews a 4lb ,er,Tony Mone had 14 fish with his best at 5lb 4oz,Willie Petrie on his weekly visit from Perth had a fish of 5lb 3ozs,With a change in weather plenty of fish were caught,Jim Eddie on 3 trips had 40 fish,John McGovern on 2 trips had 23,David Reid on 2 trips had 29 fish,jack Lawton had 12,and Ian Calder had 12.The road into the fishery has now been fully repaired and all are asked to respect the speed limit,which is 10mph.
January 27, 2008
Phil Bieske ended the week on a high collecting £100 for a tagged fish among his 14 fish catch and John McGovern a regular had 12 and caught a perfect rainbow of 10lbs 6ozs which was a bar of silver and fulltailed.Slater Scott had 6lb 5oz,Bob Farquer landed a Blue of 3lb 14ozs and Blues have been featuring well this week,Stevie Wright had 15 fish with fish of 4lb 8oz and 4lb among them,Tommy Anderson landed a 6lb 4oz fish and brother Bill had one of 4lb 15oz,Alan Baird had a 4lb 3oz.Gordon grant had 12 fish,brian Murdoch had 11 and Jim Eddie had 12 fish which made a week of bad weather a decent week of fishing with plenty of good fish coming to anglers bags.best flies have definatly been buzzers with okey dokeys in orange and white and lime and lures have been working on the more coolest of days but the fish have varied in depths throughout and its a case of finding where they are lying for success.floating and the intermediete line is sufficient to use.Even on the mildest days there is some activity on the top where some insect life are taking the chance to hatch while the cold is at bay,maybe a dry just might work for the opportunist angler willing to give it a go.
January 20, 2008
Some good numbers of fish have been caught and with water nearly all ice free the small loch is now producing after its lay off.Best flies have definatly been buzzers like okey dokeys in white and orange and white fritz on the lures.Lines have varied from day to day with floaters and intermedietes and best to have both at hand.Rob wickens landed a fulltailed and fnned 7lb 11ozs fish and this was followed with John McGovern jnr with a 5lb 13oz,Phil Bieske with a5lb 1,Chris Boyle with 21 fish and a 5lb 5ozs fish,John Thompson had a 4lb 2ozs fish,Gordon Grant had 11 fish,Mike Matthews 13,and Julian Land had 15 fish on buzzers.Fishing as always depends on weather conditions and each day is different and depth will vary and thats fishing.Troutmaster fish off is on the 9th march beginning at 9am.
January 13, 2008
One minute the frost clears and then its back again so at the moment its a case of taking each day as it comes.the only benefit is that there is always water open to fish with addition of 2 more pumps.Due to temperatures fluctuating all the time it makes fishing very erratic and not consistant.Some have had very good days and some have struggled and its just that time of year.The only thing which seems to be normal is the flies which are taking.they are orange blobs,okey dokeys,white fritzs.Maybe a change to something out of the norm would maybe work ,rather than following the trends as at this time of year its always worth experimenting rather than persisting with the same flies.Anglers are reporting plenty of knocks and fish on and off suggesting they are taking short and its a case of striking fast as soon as you feel a touch.Updates will be up most days to keep you informed about the lochs till we get some settled weather.
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