Wednesday, May 4, 2011

Stocking of Lochs Kinardochy and Bhac 2011 (AFW)













Lochs Kinardochy and Bhac have now been stocked and are fishing well. Kinardochy is all-brown trout, well-stocked annually as yearlings, some two-year-olds and some wild spawners, reconditioned overwinter at the hatchery (some winter incidentally!). Bhac has a mixture of monthly-stocked rainbows and some smaller but feisty wild browns. We are trying to restore a small heavily-silted inflow burn at Kinardochy to improve the spawning of the browns and replace the need for stocking there, but this will take time. Fry were seen yesterday on the new gravel, but bankside and instream cover needs to be improved to re-establish good habitat and provide a better chance for survival. Both lochs lie on metamorphic (hard) limestone and have decent feeding.