Off to Scotland tomorrow for a week, fishing Lake of Menteith Tuesday and Wednesday and Leven on Thursday, cant wait and i hope that weather improves a bit, anyone been fishing Leven lately got great info in Menteith but not much on Leven

Well what a trip fished Menteith, Tuesday and Wednesday, Tuesday great day 8 fish landed and they were the best fighting fish i have ever hooked, Wednesday blowing a gale and raining had 3 fish and over the 2 days lots of fish hooked and lost Thursday fished Leven a hard days fishing had 6 fish to the boat best 3lb Brownie the rest pretty small, overall brilliant trip, and a big thanks to all who helped us out, a special big thanks to Huggy and Jimmy McBride, Gary

Were you in the boat with Jimmy on wednesday.

Jim

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No there were 6 of us over from ireland and one of our party has known Jimmy for years and we were in his shop today and heard he won the compitition on Thursday

Jimmy was fishing the police national championships,on thursday,I was talking to him on wednesday night when he came ashore.I knew he had a good idea where the fish were.
Really glad you had a good time.

Jim

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Called at Jimmys shop on Friday morning and he was telling us he won the Police Championships

Gaz19,

On Leven next weekend, what was the best fly / method for you guys?

Any help appreciated.

The 2 methods that worked for us were firstly DI7 line with two lures a humongous (or anything black/sliver/gold) on the point and a small cat on the droppers, cast it out then start stripping like f*** and i mean as fast as you can, not a very enjoyable way of fishing but it produced we had 8 fish to the boat biggest 3lb, or you can use buzzers a pretty heavy buzzer on the point you need to be right on the bottom and use a strick indicator, cast out and dont move them at all fish them totally static, hope this helps, Gary

Glad you eventually got fish on the loch, it wasnt the easiest of days. If you are coming over again give me a shout and I,ll see what else is happening around about, heres the web sight for carron ,Carron Valley Fishery jim

Hi Jim really enjoyed my day on Leven and thanks to your kindness giving us tactics and some flies we managed to get a few fish.

JCD, Jim is the guy to ask about Leven he kindly helped us out when we were struggling.

Thanks again Jim and good luck and tight lines for the rest of the season, i will keep an eye out for the scottish results,

Gary