Fishing Reports

River Leven.

The warm, dry weather is still with us……as if we hadn’t noticed. Not much showing apart from the occasional sea trout.

Recent catches: 5th July, John Smith (9.5lb) and 6th July, Paul McNeil (8lbs) at the Piles on the fly (above).

Anglers are reminded that only disabled drivers may use the towpath to access certain sections of the river. Vehicles must be driven slowly and care taken to give way to pedestrians and cyclists.

Loch Lomond.

On 10th July Ernie East landed a 12lb fish off Ross Priory and lost another two, at the Bank and Knockour.

Willie Nixon with his 12.5lb fish taken off Inchcailloch on 1st July.

Loch boatmen are reminded of National Park byelaw 3.5(6) – the requirement to carry appropriate life jackets for all persons on board. The NPA have a zero tolerance policy and have recently reported several boat owners to the Procurator Fiscal. We don’t think any of our members are involved.

Great Scottish Swim.

The Great Scottish Swim will take place on Saturday 24th August. This mass ‘open water’ event is expected to attract over 2000 participants and will be run from the Duncan Mills Memorial Slip/Lomond Shores area. Waves of 300 swimmers will set off at half hour intervals over a two mile course. This event may cause some problems for Balloch based boats. Full details are awaited.

Bailiffs.

On Thursday 11th July, three LLAIA bailiffs, assisted by local police officers, arrested two men in possession of a net and quantity of fish. They were charged with various poaching related offences and reported to Dumbarton Sheriff Court.

On Sunday 14th July, a bailiff patrol came across three men illegally fishing on the Leven. Fishing equipment was seized and a report submitted to the Fiscal.

All members and ticket holders are reminded of the requirement to tag dispatched fish as soon as possible with the numbered tags issued. If submitting photos of fish for inclusion on this website, please ensure that the tag is clearly visible.

The latest weather forecast suggests that the current weather conditions will continue until at least the end of July……….

JR

Contact Reports at : reports@lochlomondangling.com

River Leven.

Last week we mentioned that John McGrogan had a rather unfortunate experience while releasing a salmon back to the river.

On 25th Jun John hooked into another fish at the Top Pool……..

a 12lb summer salmon which was released without mishap. Well done John!

29th of June and the month ended for Colin Smith with another nice catch on the fly……

‘Caught an 11 lb sea-liced fish in the Cordale Steam this afternoon. It took a black, orange and red cone head fly fished on the single hander. I ended up beaching it 100 yards downstream in the Pike Hole. ‘

The river has been at summer low all week, though there are still fish showing, including sea trout to 2.5lb. Warm weather forecast for next week, but it’s July……. the rain can’t be far off.

Loch Lomond.

On Monday 1st July, Kevin Gath boated a 14lb sea liced fish at the Guide Hut on an orange/gold rapala.

It was carefully returned to the Loch.

Also opening the month with a fish: Willie Nixon (12.5lb) off Inchcailloch. Rab Strachan (6lb) returned.

Still not much to report from the ‘Tap End’. At least seven boats up there last weekend and a few up midweek, but nothing reported. Best chance of a fish still seems to be the southeast shoreline, Auchentullich Bay and the golf course shore. 

We can now confirm that on 29th May a 27lb salmon was landed by a Balmaha fly fisher. It took him almost an hour to get it to the net…….shades of Hemingway’s ‘The Old Man and The Sea’……

JR

Contact Reports at: reports@lochlomondangling.com