does anyone know what exactly is happining at the castle angling club?

Been a member for 5 years and just enjoy the fishing, never knew there was any problems. Just about to renew membership so hoping all is well

fishing well around johnstone just now.

What u catching?

Castle angling club (johnstone )the club is still running and has more members than ever a couple of new comitee members and loads of new members. The club has been running for over 100 years and is very well run . Their water runs from castlesemple loch in lochwinnoch down to where it meets the river gryffe next to inchinnan.it has plenty of wild brown trout a number of sea trout , and gets a reasonable amount of salmon also ,.castle semple gets fished mostly for course fish .annual and day permits can be bought in rods n reels high street johnstone . Hope this has been helpfull to you . Cheers

Is that the water that runs alongside the Howwood bypass?

Thats the one , the Black Cart.

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Thanks. Drive past it just about every day and keep thinking I should try it.

been fishing the cart this season caught plenty of brown trout ,had two salmon hooked and lost .however my main concern is that the river is getting hammered by poachers whenever there is a run of salmon especially on the plum ,my suggestion would be to ban all fishing on this pool.

Hi pal i agree with banning fishing in the plum but its never going to happen the river is getting policed alot more this season i have been asked 2 or 3 times for my ticket this year more than i have ever in the 14 years a member,
as soon as the local guys find out theres salmon up everyone is down fishing without a valid ticket but if you say anything to these idiots its more hassell than its worth usually leads to you being threatend etc,

i think the club need to try get crown baliffs on the water alot more.