Category Archives: River journal

The 2014 trout season is over

Posted on October 6, 2014 by gowens2013

So that is the 2014 trout season over! Glenquey season finished last week with a number of reports of great fishing, indeed one member became so besotted he visited every day for the last couple of weeks of the season. … Continue reading →

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River Devon – July/August 2014

Posted on September 6, 2014 by gowens2013

Another two months with little meaningful rainfall, has once again left the river at “bare bones” level and reliant on the compensation flow from Castlehill Reservoir. There have been just enough small rises in river level to clear some of the … Continue reading →

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River Devon – May/June 2014

Posted on July 10, 2014 by gowens2013

Anybody paying a visit to the river this weekend, will find the bare bones of the river being fed by the consented compensation flow from Castlehill Reservoir and the fishing quite tough. That all said, the general consensus of anglers … Continue reading →

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River Devon – April 2014

Posted on May 9, 2014 by gowens2013

April on the Devon was relatively quite; but towards the second half of the month despite the often sharp cold easterly winds our resident trout began to show at the surface as they picked off the small but steady hatches of olives. This … Continue reading →

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River Devon update

Posted on April 16, 2014 by gowens2013

I have been out on the River since the beginning of the season but have met few other anglers willing to brave the cold and the brutal winds at the weekends. My own visits to the river have only been a … Continue reading →

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Opening Day

Posted on March 19, 2014 by gowens2013

Well the day had finally come and after the traditional opening day ‘faffing’ trying to find rods, reels, fly boxes, forceps etc so carefully put away at the end of last season; I eventually found myself on the river. I headed … Continue reading →

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Fossoway beat 2014

Posted on March 18, 2014 by gowens2013

From the opening day of the 2014 season we will be able once again to fish again on the upper river upstream of Crook of Devon for the first time since the devastating pollution incident centred about the Glendevon Water Treatment Works. … Continue reading →

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