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Menteith Report

25th June

6ft Water Temp: 16C Secchi Disk Gateside: 1.9m
WATER AID RAISES £16000 AT LAKE CORPORATE EVENT.
The big news this week was the amount raised by Wateraid who held their corporate fishing event at the Lake on Friday 22nd June. The organiser Robin Lambert of Scottish Water landed some big corporate sponsers for the event - Future Environmental Services, Scottish Water Contracting, Orange Business Services, MWH Global, Farrer Consulting and Waven Plastics. The fantastic sum could not have been achieved without the help also of the smaller sponsors including those companies who sent teams to the event and of course the enormous amount of time spent by Robin Lambert of Scottish Water who organised the event and collected the sponsorship. The event was won by Change Homes Ltd. Pictured above with Managing Director Kevin McCabe (on left) are Jock Kettles, James Litster and Derek Marklow. Change caught 24 fish for 51lbs 7oz, 2nd were Anglian Water with 5 fish for 13lbs 6oz and 3rd were AESOps Ltd with 5 fish for 8lbs 15oz. Top Individuals were Jock Kettles with 6 fish for 13lbs 2oz, 2nd was Chris Evans of Anglian Water and 3rd Kevin McCabe with 6 fish. The 64 competitors caught 53 fish for 150lbs.

Water temperature has gradually picked up this week to finish at 16C. Light to strong easterly winds have prevailed. Top spots have been Lochend, Road Shore/Shear Point, Rookery and Roman Bay. The fish have been close to the surface and anglers have favoured buzzers and lures.

Results:

8th Evening Heat; Scottish Club Championships Results – sponsored by the Daily Record with additional prizes from the Angling Centre Stirling.
25½ boats landed 82 fish for 190lbs. Top 3 man team were Monifieth with 15 fish for 35lbs 7oz, 2nd Central Scotland Police and 3rd Denny Dist “B”. Top four individuals qualifying for the Champion of Champions were Robbie Mather of Monifieth, F.Jackson (Pentland FF), M.Millar (CSP) and Colin Elder (Monifieth). Top tactics – Lochend, white cat and orange blob, midge tip. Heaviest Fish 6lbs 2oz, Stewart Marshall of CSP.
In the 6th heat of the Menteith Boat League sponsored by Angling Centre Stirling, 34 anglers landed 62 fish for 136lbs. Top rod on the night was J.Litster with a limit bag and many also returned, 2nd I.Simpson (limit) and 3rd Andy Dunn who also returned fish. Heaviest fish went to George White. The Duck was getting dry cleaned this week so no award was made. Current League Positions are 1st J.Litster with 38 points, Dave Paterson 42 points and A.Dunn in 3rd with 48pts.
Anglian Water Fulling Mill 6 Man Team Event.
In the Finals of the Day Event Change Fly Fishers (A) were the winners (J.Litster, J.Kettles, K.McCabe, A.dunn, J.McBride and M.Smith) with 27 fish. Also qualifying for the final at Rutland were Neilston FF (24 fish) and Team Wellbank (16 fish). Team Sunburst (W.Leach, M.Low M.Hamilton, R.Gilbert, G.MacGregor, G.Frew) went through in the evening final with 26 fish. Also through were Leslie LLanilar (13 fish) and Thack AC (12 fish). Rod average in the day final 2.72, and 1.88 for the evening. Thanks to Anglian Water for running this competition.