June can be a quiet month……for some …. The springers having sprung and the grilse are awaited. The Loch continues to show a healthy increase in sea trout catches with some good sized fish reported both on the fly and troll.
In the middle of the month Dave Sunman had a 5 ½ lb sea trout while fly fishing off Inchmurrin. The fish, which took a golden olive bumble, is shown in the attached photo.
Colin McCrory was also out in mid June and had a good day on the fly with a 3 ½ lb fish at the Ladies Point at Inchcruin, rising a good number of fish and losing another at Inchlonaig.
On Saturday Scott Sinclair landed a cracker weighing 6 ½ lbs off Inchgalbraith on a trolled ‘tomic’. Scott sent me a photo which I will include in the near future…..thanks for these updates and photos guys.
There weren’t many salmon caught in either the Loch or Leven during June. A few were returned at VOLDAC which were taken mainly down the bottom end of the Loch but I heard it mentioned that a Vale fisher had a good sized fish up at Rob Roy’s Cave earlier in the month. Balmaha seems to have been fairly quiet. There are still a few fish being landed on the Leven….nothing like the numbers of last season…..and there will still be fishing running into the Loch. I certainly wouldn’t expect the grilse to appear till the end of July if the pattern follows that of the last few years, but I’ll be out there anyway….you never know…!!
Regards J.R.