Butterstone remains to fish well with those anglers who suffered the cold weather conditions having in their words surprisingly good sport. Intermediate lines are the preferred line of choice with a wide selection of flies from the usual mini lure, Black and Green being a good starting point to white cat Boobies, orange blobs through to size 12 Diawl Bach’s taking fish. Water clarity is a little hit and miss at times due to the constant changing high winds and water temp is a low 5’C.

The fish are still well spread out and are not all congregated around the road shore and Nether Cardney cottage as per previous years. There were pockets of fish found down the North shore and along the shelf just outside the harbour right round to the south shore. There are also large no’s of good sized fish up near lily pad bay just outside of the top bay.

The average size of fish is a cracking 2.3lbs with some lovely mid sized fish mixed in as well.

A Few anglers that did well over the past week: B Johnston 5 fish for 10lb 12oz, S. Malcolm of Bankfoot 6 fish for 15lb 14, I Guthrie Returned 13, Paul Wilson and boat partner 8 fish for 20 lbs and returned a further 10, Mr McAffrey 6 fish for 15lb 8oz, The Winn Brothers of Birnam 9 fish for 18lbs 6oz. Clubs that featured well were Stanley AC 78 fish for 178 lb 5oz for 9 boats, Leslie & Glenrothes AC 70 fish for 170lbs for 6 boats they returned a further 43 fish and Cupar AC 60 fish for 136 lbs for 6 boats they returned a further 33 fish.

Prospect this week are mixed with sunny spells predicted for the start of the week with moderate winds from the North with light rain forecast for the tail end of the week. Temperatures are going to be a high of 7’C and a low of - 4’C at night.