Tag: Stillwater

Wellsfield Trout Fishery

Wellsfield Trout Fishery

Posted by | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | |

Wellsfield is a modern fishery at the back of a farm/leisure complex, man made and consisting of three lochans, on the Denny road, coming from Stirling. From Stirling Services take the Denny turn off and head along this road until you see a tree line on the hill on the left running parallel to the road. The Wellsfield Farm entrance is next left and pretty obvious as it has an Equestrian Centre, Gym, Holiday cottages as well as the fishery. In 2014 the front area of the farm set up as a large childrens leisure park, it can be very busy at weekends, however the fishery has separate parking so don’t be put off if it appears mental busy at the entrance.

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Swanswater Trout Fishery

Swanswater Trout Fishery

Posted by | Wednesday, January 26, 2011 | |

The fishery is actually two ponds and a small loch (Swanswater), and you may purchase a permit for just the smaller Meadow Pond and Mill Pond, or Swanswater itself which also covers the smaller ponds. Fishing is catch and release or catch and keep on all the ponds and on Swanswater itself. If on Catch and Release you must use debarbed hooks, try get fish in quickly – don’t over play them so use a fairly heavy leader and avoid handling them wherever possible.

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Swanswater: Birthday fishing weekend

Swanswater: Birthday fishing weekend

Posted by | Saturday, January 22, 2011 | , , , |

Swanswater is my “local” for want of a better name. I can literally walk there in about 40 minutes and while I have been relearning fly fishing in the latter half of 2010, it was my venue of choice.I have to say I enjoy it there especially the smaller ponds. The big loch can be variable and can go very dour. It’s definitely a place not to become to fixated on one fly, one technique or one location.I went up Saturday for a 4 hour session- arriving just before 12 to get the best of the day through to close around 16:00. As it turned out they are now open to 16:30 and on a day like Saturday, it was still quite light even then.

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