Flies and Tactics

A floating line can be used here all year although on blustery days some anglers change to an intermediate line. For most of the year anglers find that the fish are high in the water. Rosslynlee is well known as a 'top of the water' fishery. The water itself is around 10-12 feet deep around the shallowest area and deepens gradually to around 22 feet at the dam.

All year round we get good bags of fish by using flies such as Buzzers, Bloodworms, Nymphs, Damsels, Dancers, Cats Whiskers, and Black Fritz lures. From spring to autumn the dry-fly fishing is great fun with CDC's, Black Spiders, Dry Olive, Suspender Buzzers, Shipman Buzzers, Hoppers, Sedges, Muddlers, Daddies, and foam Beetles.

Fishing Report June 2010

Trout fishing has changed now and rightly so for this time of the year. Better weather and higher temperatures have brought out hatches of many different insects so dry-fly anglers are now getting the sport they love. Fish are coming to the surface to take CDC's, black foam Beetles, Floating Fry, Sedges, Hoppers, Daddies and Shipman Buzzers. We have seen some great afternoon rises lately. Other insects are hatching in the water and the trout are following these up and going for them just a foot or so under the surface. They will then take flies such as Diawl Bachs, Buzzers, Hare's Ear or Pheasant - tail Nymphs, Emergers and Suspender Buzzers. On days when weather conditions keep them down deeper, anglers are still getting good numbers of fish on Damsels, Dancers, Cat's Whiskers, Bloodworm variations and Fritz-bodied lures. Some large fish have been taken recently and many more reported by catch-and-release anglers including some big Brownies.