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 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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