Despite the cool east wind some excellent catches have been returned still mainly from the south shore drifts and bays. The water temperature has risen to 6C at 3ft despite some early morning air temperatures of -3C. 

Featuring amongst the top individual catches last week were Linden Curtis and Vernon Alexander who had good sport mainly in Boathouse Bay on Thursday using intermediate lines and small traditional flies. Stephen O’Neill and Mark Steven had the best boat for the week on Sunday although fishing in probably the poorest conditions of the week.  They had their boat limit of 10 trout and returned at least a further 4 fish. Conditions were very sunny and hardly any wind but using DI3’s and size 14’s Kate McLarens provided great sport. The most productive drifts have been Boat House Bay, Otter Island and Grahavie Bay where patterns such as the Dunkeld, Kate McLaren, Bibio and the Clan Chief have been most productive. Other good drifts well worth visiting are Green Banks and Beetle Bay.