Category Archives: River journal

River Devon early September update

Posted on September 7, 2015 by gowens2013

Well only four weeks or so of the trout season to go! The general consensus is that the trout fishing on the river has been pretty good, in part I guess from the generally wet summer that has all but … Continue reading →

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River Devon June update (or an early July update!)

Posted on July 11, 2015 by gowens2013

The recent rain has freshened the river throughout the DAA waters, and there have been unconfirmed sightings (but not catches) of Sea Trout and/or Grilse in the river. Amongst the better fish caught in recent weeks was a fish of … Continue reading →

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River Devon June 2015 update

Posted on July 5, 2015 by gowens2013

The hard start to the season continued well into May , even seeing the Ochils plastered in fresh snow at the start of the month. Thankfully June has brought warmer and more settled weather, but very little in the way of … Continue reading →

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Coal and the River Devon 1792-2014

Posted on July 5, 2015 by gowens2013

The Ochils Landscape Partnership provided a bursary to Jennifer L. Geller of the University of Stirling for a dissertation toward the degree of Master of Historical Research (Environmental). The resulting dissertation was entitled “The Evolution of a ―Peculiar Landscape‖. Coal Mining, Management and … Continue reading →

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River Devon April update

Posted on May 11, 2015 by gowens2013

It hasn’t been the easiest of starts to the season with periodic snow melt, low water levels and cold water temperatures supressing hatches and trout activity. The best of the early season fishing was had by the bait anglers, while … Continue reading →

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Pike from the Devon – The Devon’s other fish contd

Posted on April 7, 2015 by gowens2013

In the marvellous entitled “A Descriptive and Historical Gazetteer of the Counties of Fife, Kinross and Clackmannan: With Anecdotes, Narratives and Graphic Sketches, Moral, Political, Commercial and Agricultural” edited by one M. Barbieri the River Devon is described in 1857: … Continue reading →

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The DAA engineers

Posted on March 18, 2015 by gowens2013

  In the last couple of weeks our dedicated Wednesday work parties have been busy at Glenquey and on the River. Recently they have been out demonstrating their civil engineering skills repairing and building bridges Laying the foundations The completed … Continue reading →

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A pollution near miss

Posted on March 6, 2015 by gowens2013

On Wednesday 4th March 2015 with our new season just eleven days off, the Devon and a very lucky driver had an extremely close call. In the early hours an articulated fuel tanker came off the A977 at Powmill and ended up in … Continue reading →

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Season end 2014 – update #1

Posted on November 3, 2014 by gowens2013

Walter Ramage sent through a couple of cracking photos of a Sea Trout and Salmon from the river The Salmon looks a cracking fit fish (judging by the Walter’s boot width!). Not being a Salmon expert I often wondered if some … Continue reading →

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Seasons end 2014

Posted on November 2, 2014 by gowens2013

Friday saw the end of the 2014 season. The rain had arrived properly over the previous week creating the first big spate leaving debris high up the bank: This finally brought some fresh fish in to the river, literally just … Continue reading →

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