Gordon Dunbar, 5/9/08 Went up to Loch Kinnabus last Friday and fished from 5 o.clock till about half past 8 ,started off with dry fly and took 5 fish in the first 7 casts and lost another 2 ,thinking great it could be a night of fantastic sport but this soon turned to despair as it started raining quite heavily and a strong easterly wind putting the fish down ,so after about 20 minutes without a touch changed to a slime lone and diawl bachs which started to take fish almost immediately never changed my flies for the rest of the night and by the time i stopped fishing had caught 26 trout in the 6oz to the 9oz range ,all in all a good night,s sport on this highly underated loch which over the season has been producing some better fish than in the last few years so hopefully this trend continues for the remainder of the season and on into next year G Dunbar Gordon Dunbar 22/6/08 Arrived at Kinnibus to fish from the boat for a couple of hours but the wind put paid to that so decided just to fish from the bank fished for about an hour and a half and took 17 fish up to half a pound ,great sport and the flies that were catching were a claret hopper and a claret sedgehog
Successful Islay Trip During our fishing week (31/5/08 to 6/6/08) on Islay (14th consecutive year)
we had a day (5 June) on your lochs. All week the weather was bright,
virtually windless and quite warm. We left the car in the quarry and walked
over to the School Loch first where we all caught our first fish. Jim
Campbell actually caught and released one about 1lb 4oz (picture available).
We then tried Gillie Loch and found the fish out in the deeper water rising
to black and olive CDC - a good few fish up to 12oz. Finally we finished off
on Kinnabus and again had about 30 fish up to 12oz. Flies for the day were
Black and Olive CDC, Green Peter, Blue Zulu, Doobry, Clan Chief, Bibio,
Pearly Invicta and JJ Olive. During the week we also fished Skerrolls, Gorm
(3 days), Finlaggan and Ballygrant - similar flies and conditions. Looking
forward already to our 2009 trip!
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