Tag: Stillwater

Personal Opinions:

Worth a visit, on my visit maybe the conditions were a bit warm after a hot summers day so the fish weren’t in the mood to show themselves but they certainly pulled hard when you contacted one! If you have a wee electric outboard, I recommend taking it, the rowing isn’t itself hard (it’s not a big place overall) but the oars ( on the boat I had ) were a bit of a pain. Noisy ( on their mountings) , heavy and hard to maneuver in to the boat and stow as they are ( understandably) secured to the boat with cords to stop them being lost overboard. The reservoir being man made is hard to make natural but all things considered its about a good a job as you could hope for and it seems a tidy well run wee place with the shelter of woods on all sides which should help on blustery days high on the hill. The guy who was manning the fishery on my visit was very helpful and gave me useful information on what was catching and roughly where. I think the recommendation to use minimum 8lb line was correct when I was there as I have rarely experienced such hard pulls from fish when contacted. It really was like an electric shock.