Category Archives: DAA News

UPDATE Access to Glenquey – 1st July to 23rd July 2019

Posted on July 1, 2019 by gowens2013

I have been in touch with the Road Network Manager at Perth and Kinross Council and they have confirmed that anglers will ​be able to reach Glenquey from the south (Muckhart side). A few points to note: There will be … Continue reading →

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June update

Posted on June 30, 2019 by gowens2013

So summer holidays are almost upon us, and for once the weather is playing ball with a good few mini-spates helping to clear the river and for a couple of weeks Castlehill was regularly over-topping. Between we have had some … Continue reading →

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Atlantic salmon with skin damage

Posted on June 30, 2019 by gowens2013

Through the officers of the Forth District Salmon Fishery Board we have received the following message from Fisheries Management Scotland As you know, there are currently concerns about the health status of wild Atlantic salmon in Scotland where captured and … Continue reading →

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Season 2019 – May update

Posted on May 25, 2019 by gowens2013

Well this afternoon was lovely, gone was the sunshine and replaced with a lovely dose of drizzle likely to extend over the bank holiday weekend. We really need more of this weather after yet another prolonged dry spring. Already Castlehill … Continue reading →

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Forth Rivers Trust – Spring newsletter

Posted on May 25, 2019 by gowens2013

Our friends at the Forth Rivers Trust have published their spring newsletter setting out some of their work on the whole Forth catchment: https://mailchi.mp/c5f3586c91f6/forth-rivers-trust-2018-recap-newsletter-2385549

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First 2019 season update

Posted on May 3, 2019 by gowens2013

Apologies for the silence on the website, the DAA website is run from a PC at the end of the unclassified road at the far end of the Information Super Highway …….. finally after four weeks we finally have connections … Continue reading →

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Tiger Trout (or for that matter Rainbow or Blue trout)

Posted on May 3, 2019 by gowens2013

The Forth District Salmon Board posted the following on Facebook earlier this week: Reports of tiger trout being caught in the River Forth is something that crops up from time to time and generally the fish is killed and nothing … Continue reading →

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Lost items

Posted on May 3, 2019 by gowens2013

A couple of items have been mislaid at Glenquey in recent weeks David Hartley lost his mobile phone half way up the south bank (though the information I had was it might have ended up in the reservoir) Alan Graham … Continue reading →

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2019 season ………. only 2 more sleeps away :-)

Posted on March 13, 2019 by gowens2013

The 2019 season will start on the River Devon and at Glenquey on Friday 15th March ………. though judging by the current state of the river and the forecast rain for tonight, the river is likely still to be thinning … Continue reading →

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Pre-season update

Posted on February 23, 2019 by gowens2013

Its Saturday 23rd of February, with only 20 days to the start of the 2019 Season and in stark contrast to this time last year it feels like spring is just around the corner …….. no doubt by the time … Continue reading →

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