Angling heats up at Lochter Fishery

At Lochter Fishery the old saying “summertime and the living is easy” came to mind as the weather heated up a notch or two as the week progressed.

Morning and evening have proved the best times of the day, but most fishers are not fixated about numbers caught at this time of year, with the bountiful wildlife and their offspring going about their business filling in the gaps between fish nosing at flies.

Dave Simpson used blobs, buzzers and klinkhammers for his 17 fish, Russell Jenkins stuck with buzzers for his 14 fish and Graham Williamson on an evening session had 13 fish from the top of the water on spiders, CDC hoppers and yellow klinkhammers.

Other returns were Rob Wishart with 12 CDCs, Albert Trail on 12 fish using klinkhammers, Mike Skene on 11 with dry flies and buzzers, Jim Buchan on 10 fish on buzzers and Shawn Fraser with eight fish on fabs and diawl bachs.

The fishery is currently opening at 8am for the early angler and closing at 10pm for the evening specialists.

Temperatures are forecast to be cooling towards the weekend and an expected return to more normal summer conditions.

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