Del and Paul land the East of Scotland Pairs

There has been great fishing on

recently, with many anglers getting limit bags as well as some very big fish coming off.

The fish are up at the surface and are taking traditional wets as well as boobies, buzzers, hoppers and dark flies with a bit of lurex in them.

The East of Scotland Pairs were held recently with the winners being Del Russell and Paul McMullen, who landed seven fish for 15lbs 12oz.

Just pipped into second place were Lee Anderson and Sandy Boag with seven for 15lb 3oz. In third place were Randy Bright and Mick Tarbet with six for 13lbs 7oz.

Some of the other returns this week included; Balbeggie AC seven boats, 46 fish for 86lb 13oz (including a returned rainbow at 7lbs), Leslie & Glenrothes AC six boats, 35 for 70lb 5oz and Pitcarmick AC four boats, 19 for 32lb 14oz.

The recent SANA semi final at Lintrathen by Jock Kettles with an amazing 23 fish basket (three kept and 20 returned) and the cut off for qualification to the final was 16lb 9ozs, which shows how well it fished on the day.

The improved weather conditions helped the fishing last week with 47 day boats taking 285 fish and 31 evening boats taking 168 in total.

Some big fish have been coming off the Island and North. The fish tend to be still lying around the edges, while on the Island Pond fish are also being seen rising all around and across the Craigton bank area and around the Islands.

Black shuttlecock dries, hares lug, small yellow dancer, black snatchers, pheasant tail nymphs and orange blobs fished on full floaters or midge tip lines proved to be the most consistent combinations.

Hatches of small olives are being seen with the fish taking these as emergers rather than adults.

Notable catches include J Galloway and T Melville taking 10 for 18lb on the Island; Harold Lewis taking five for 9lbs 13oz on the North; W Stewart and P Stewart taking nine for 19lbs 3oz on the North; A McAlister taking five fish for 13lb 9oz on the Island; D Murray returned all seven caught on the Island; Balbeggie AC ,with seven evening boats on the Island, taking 48 for 85lbs 10oz; St Serfs Ladies AC, with two evening boats on the Island, taking seven for 13lb and Dundee West End AC, with eight evening boats on the Island, taking 35 for 63lbs.

Theangling clubs were out in force last week with the Perthshire FC keeping 35 weighing 79lb, Falkirk FC 29 for 75lb, Pentland Civil Service AC 52 weighing 113lb 3oz, CIBA AC 26 weighing 57lb 8oz and Rainbow A/C kept 28 weighing 63lb.

Cowdenbeath & District AC took 19 for 43lb; Perth Ex- Servicemen’s AC 12 for 29lb; St Mungos A/C kept 17 weighing 39lb 4oz and released seven; Kinross Ex- Servicemen’s A/C 14 weighing 29lb 2oz, Thistle A/C 17 for 37lb and the Abercrombie Arms kept eight fish weighing 16lb 12oz.

is fishing well just now with the majority of the fish coming to natural patterns such as hares ears, CDC’s and small buzzers.

Ross Carnegie returned 14, the best of which was estimated at 8lbs and junior angler Findlay Gordon returned a nice rainbow of 6lbs.

Full up to date information can be had from Gordon on 07731752732 or John on 07712 121145.

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Tight Lines!