There were massive hatches of Mayfly during the whole of last week with anglers finding that close imitations to the emerging fly produced tremendous sport; those who did not found it very frustrating. Otter Island on the Invertrossachs drift came to life last week with many boats bagging up early in their session.

On Thursday evening huge numbers of trout were seen in wind lanes around the island which meant that the few Scottish National semi-finalists who had heard about this did exceptionally well during the competition the following day.

Last week Michael Low from East Kilbride had the biggest brownie at 1lb 10oz. On the Club front the CSSA, 8 Boats, 19 fish for 19lb 15oz – best rod Geoff Barker 6 for 6lb.

Orr & Lochty, 3 boats, 11 fish returned, East Kilbride 5 boats, 16 fish for 17lb 2oz – best rod Michael Low            2 fish for 3lb.

SANA Scottish National Semi Final: Ist was Bob Robertson, Bridge of Weir Loch 10 fish and 2^nd Robert Fullerton, SANA,     6 fish. Other final qualifiers: Mike Willis- Bridge of Allan 76, D. Purves- Bank of Scotland East, M Russell- Merkister, Chris Sutherland- Largs & District, David Ogg - RAF, Ian Guthrie- L& Glenrothes, R Stevenson- Glenburn, T Steven- Heriot FP.

Ian Wallace was boatman for the top boat in the semi’s and said that they stuck around Otter island all day as they caught 5 fish on the first drift, their best fly’s were green and yellow tagged Kate McLaren’s.

  The top taking flies have been the Professor, Invicta (standard), Wickham’s, and the Kate McLarens with the best areas being Otter Island, Grass Bank, Beetle Bay, sailing club and Grahavie Bay.