Fishery News
Beecraigs Fishery Monthly Report, Prospects and Records
March / April 2011
March saw the first hatch of Buzzers on the loch and some good rises have taken place with a few fish being caught on dry fly as well. Tactics used have been a fast glass or an intermediate line with small flies/lures doing the business. Top patterns being Black & Green Fritz, Yellow Dancer, Goldhead Ace and Cats Whiskers. Also, as ever, the popular Booby in its many colours took a lot of fish. By far the best fly has been a small size 10 Cormorant fished on the top dropper. Buzzers and Snatchers have also been successful; as has the Damsel Nymph.
April has been another great month on Beecraigs Fishery with the majority of anglers weighing-in their limit. The weather improved gradually through the month as spring really took hold.
Records
Some examples of the catches have been:-
- Graham Adamson & Son who came in with good rainbows and blues for 25lbs. 10oz, including a good one of 7lbs. 8oz.
- Local angler Bob Rintoul and his boat partners Alex MacDonald and Robert Taylor took their fish limit on each of their 14 outings - quite an achievement!
- Ricky Wilson from Linlithgow did very well with plenty of fish all on his home-tied Cormorant.
- Paul Howarth from Grangemouth took 10 rainbows for 30lbs. 6oz. on Bloodworm including the best fish of the month - a fine triploid of 8lbs.
- On the club scene, Liveline AC came in with 73 fish for 163lbs. 6oz. for their 8 boats followed the next day by the Blackbull AC from Dalkeith catching 78 fish for 172lbs. 13oz. with their 8 boats.
- Local club Broxburn & District, weighed-in 43 fish for 120lbs. 10oz. for their 5 boats.
- Rusty Nail AC from Dunfermline took 50 fish by lunchtime with their 5 boats whilst on the same day Methil AC came-in with 30 fish for their 3 boats.
- Penicuik AC also had a bumper catch with all 6 boats taking their boat limit of 10 fish.
We also had a cracker of a Brown trout caught weighing-in at 7lbs. 8oz. again on a Cormorant and quite a few rainbows in the 5-8lbs. class. Rod average per angler this month was 4.5 fish.
Fishery Records:
- brown trout at 8lbs. 5ozs.
- rainbow at 27lbs. 8ozs.
- 12 Fish Limit at 108lbs. 14ozs.
March saw one of the best starts ever to the season on Beecraigs Loch with many fish taken and lots of happy anglers at the end of the day. Book your next session by telephoning us on 01506 844516.
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Fishery staff will gladly help with advice on patterns and the best areas to fish.