Fish Reports and Water Conditions

News, Fish Reports and Water Conditions

27 Jun 09

The end of anther warm week with the river running at a summer low. With the exception of a brief, small rise last Friday, the level has been well below a foot on the Dalginross gauge for a month now. The forecast for early next week remains warm and dry and so conditions will continue to be difficult if not impossible. Compared with last year this summer’s drought is much longer. There are sea trout about but I doubt that any more will run until we get a descent rise.

Drummond Loch is binging to cloud up but is still fishable. Loch turret on the other hand is providing good sport with small but hard fighting brownies coming readily to wet and dry fly. Early morning and the evening rise can be particularly good fun.

The Club has been approached by the River Doon club to support their bit to stop the Hydro Board extracting water. We know only too well the affect that water abstraction can have on a river and the committee therefore supports the action details are below. Members are encouraged to lend their support.

Please click the link to complete an online petition to try and stop the ScottishPower from wasting one of the best salmon rivers in Scotland.   The boards intention is to reduce the flow by 28 million gallons per day, a reduction of almost 40%. The Doon is a fantastic little river producing on average almost 2,000 salmon a year to rod and line...... but it is on the brink of disaster if the Hydro board get their way.

http://www.gopetition.co.uk/online/27362.html

Beaver Re-introduction – Do you have a view? An article on the potential effect is here

The River Earn Improvement Association (REIA) welcomes membership from those interested in angling and matters related to the River Earn. By joining you will help to preserve a unique part of Perthshire's natural heritage.

Information on the Earn water level is available based on the Dalginross (Comrie) and Kinkell Bridge monitoring stations. This is updated on an hourly basis and gives a good idea of the current level - visiting anglers would be well advised to check this when planning a trip. The graph shows the river level relative to a 'base level'. The base level represents a typical summer level in the river and has been calculated as the level that is exceeded for 95% of the time - it does not indicate the 'actual' height of the water. Anglers will therefore find it helpful to check the level given prior to setting out and then compare that with the actual water level in the area where they plan to fish. Future visits to the Earn site will therefore given them a point of reference on which to base any proposed trip to the river. As a guide, 0m in practice means very difficult conditions with slack water and increasing amounts of weed during the summer; so, it's not worth really venturing out. A level around +6-9 inches is a good medium height. A level at Comrie that is considerably above that at Kinkell often means either it has rained in the catchment area, or the Hydro Board have started generating, and the level over the whole length of the river is likely to rise as a consequence. For details of other, non-Tay system, rivers go the SEPA interactive map.

Club Rules:   A full list of the Club Rules can be found here.

Rainbows:    In the interests of indigenous fish preservation all rainbow trout should be killed.

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