Pitlochry Angling Club News

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The recent lift in water has really livened things up on our salmon beats and success came yesterday for Chris Boulton at Sawmill with a sup...

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All our hill lochs are now fishing well and there have been some exceptional catches reported. The fish pictured below (returned) is one of ...

Some of the club's top strimmers were in action this morning .... and the Sawmill path is now looking good for any trout or salmon angle...

There was some good work done at the Dam today - the beat is looking in great shape for the second half of the season ..... and with plenty ...

The recent lift in water means there are good numbers of fish in our Ruan Ruarie beat right now and with two caught yesterday it's fishi...

The recent lift in water seems to have encouraged a few fish into our Ruan Ruarie beat and it is now fishing well: on Monday Gordon Redmond ...

There's fish on the move at the Dam right now and Gordon Hanslip was in the right place to intercept one this morning - a fresh fish of ...

We had some long overdue rain on Friday night / Saturday morning and while it hasn't made a big difference to the river level it did see...

Dry and sunny again at the Dam today - but with a slightly fresher feel to it. There were fish about, though, and Steve Watt managed to inte...

Sunny and low water at the Dam today - not ideal for fishing - but with a bit of application it can be done: Danny Fulton did well on Pitloc...

There are good numbers of fish in our Dam beat right now but they're not easy to catch in the current low water conditions. Steve Watt w...

It's been a frustrating few days with plenty of fish showing, a fish lost - but none caught. Graham Christie broke the deadlock today, h...

It was more of the same today as far as conditions went - low water but quite a few fish about - not ideal but in with a chance. As it turne...

It was another great day on our Dam beat – lots of fish showing throughout the day and two caught: Alex Mitchell was the successful angler i...

More low water today but out Dam beat continues to produce fish: Craig Masson was the successful angler - landing a sea liced fish of 8lbs o...

Another cold and sometimes blustery day at the Dam - but the fish don’t seem to mind: Derek Martin landed a very nice fish of 10lbs on the f...

Quite a change in the weather this week – much colder with the odd rain shower – but not enough, so far at least, to bring the river level u...

There was a change of weather at midday on Saturday - with the cloud rolling in after a prolonged sunny spell - and there was a change of lu...

Bright sunshine and low water for the last few days - not ideal fishing conditions. Jim Fisher did well in the evening (yesterday), though, ...

It was more of the same at the Dam today - a cold start, bright sunshine, low water ... and three cracking fish caught. While conditions mig...

Bright, sunny, low water - not ideal conditions for salmon fishing - but it didn't stop Steve Dora catching a superb fish of 8lb on the ...

The loch trout season is now up and running: the first stocking of Loch Bhac took place earlier this week - 200 hard fighting rainbows waiti...

It was another successful day on our Dam beat: Les Dargie was the man on form with a nice fish of 10lbs caught on the fly on Port-na-Craig b...

Conditions looked excellent first thing but it was a quiet start with nothing caught in the morniing. It all came good in the afternoon, tho...

Conditions looked good first thing, the river having cleared overnight and dropped to an ideal height, and it didn't take long for Roger...

We had a bit of rain over the weekend but not enough to give the river a decent lift. There's still fish about, though, and Jimmy Ross m...

River levels are lower than we would like at the moment but with good numbers of salmon now in the beat there's still a good chance - wi...

Water levels have dropped back over the past week but there are still fish to be caught: Steve Watt landed a superb fish of 10lbs this morni...