Millhall Reservoir, Polmont A Team Outing

The Swanswater Cygnets had an outing today. 

The 'B' Team were fishing on the Millpond at Swanswater Fishery.

'A' Team Cygnets

The 'A' Team were fishing Millhall Reservoir, Avonbank Fishing Club, Polmont. There were 7 Cygnets fishing today. It was cool with bright and sunny weather, with a slight breeze developing later in the session. The Cygnets were fishing from boats today as there was a bank competition being held at Millhall Reservoir. The Cygnets were allocated their boats and boatmen and were eager to get fishing.

Throughout the session each boat fished at a numbered buoy and after 45 minutes each boat moved in order to give the Cygnets a chance to fish various areas of the reservoir.

The Cygnets had a tremendous days fishing today at Millhall, with some good sport from the trout.

Catch Returns for A team -

                                                  Keir Penman                2 fish & 2 returned

                                                  Alasdair Anderson       2 fish & 1 returned

                                                  Cameron Smith           2 fish & 1 returned

                                                  Robert Fyfe                  2 fish 

                                                  Eddie McKillop           2 fish

                                                  William Addison         1 fish

Cygnets at end of session with Boatmen

The Cygnets wish to thank Millhall Reservoir for their hospitality and warm welcome. Thanks also to Rab Hiddleston, Willie Anderson, Jimmy Miller and Jim Allan for being boatmen for todays session.

Sunday 15th September

There were 5 Cygnets at today's session. The weather was not the best for fishing with rain, heavy at times and a strong wind with strengthening gusts. The Cygnets fished hard throughout the session, with only one fish being caught for the whole session, a Tiger trout caught by Alasdair Anderson.

Congratulations to Alasdair Anderson who won the best newcomer shield at the Scottish Youth National Championships Qualifiers on 1st September at Carron Valley. Alasdair now qualifies to fish with the Scottish Youth International Team at the 2014 Home international.

Following the fishing session, the Cygnets were shown by Cygnets fly tying Instructor, Jimmy Miller how to tie a "Dragonfly". The Cygnets then had the opportunity to tie this pattern themselves.

"Dragonfly"

The next Cygnets session is an Outing to Millhall Fishery on Sunday 29th September for the A Team Cygnets. The B Team Cygnets will be at Swanswater Fishery as normal.

Details of the outing arrangements, will be sent to the A Team Cygnets in due course.

Sunday 1st September 2013 A & B Team Outings Swanswater Fishery

Today was the Cygnets A & B Team Swanswater outing.

The B team were to be fishing on the Mill Pond. Unfortunately none of the Cygnets B Team attended today for this competition.

The A Team Cygnets were boat fishing on Swanswater. There were 6 Cygnets at todays competition. The weather was dull and cloudy with a strengthening wind with strong gusts at times, which made it feel quite cold. As this was a competition towards the overall club champion the Cygnets started at 08:30am. They were eager to get fishing and following the allocation of boats and session safety brief, the Cygnets headed up to Swanswater and out on to the water. 

There were a few fish showing at the start of the session, However, the fish seemed to be reluctant to take any of the flies that the Cygnets offered them. The Cygnets fished hard throughout the first part of the session and it was 2hrs into the session before the first fish was successfully boated by Robert Fyfe, which was a hard fighting, cracking blue trout, which was shortly followed by a second blue trout for Robert.

The Cygnets had a break from fishing at 11am and were joined by Paul Young, Swanswater Cygnets, Honorary President. The Cygnets enjoyed their time talking to Paul and having a warm drink.

After the break the Cygnets were back out in the boats. It was not until near the end that the third fish of the session was hooked and successfully boated by Eddie McKillop. This was another cracking blue trout. Some of the Cygnets reported getting pulls from fish but they were reluctant to stay on.


Overall, the Cygnets did really well in conditions that were not great for fishing.

The Successful Cygnets today were:-

           Robert Fyfe                - 2 fish

         Eddie McKillop         - 1 fish

There were 2 Cygnets who attended fly tying with Jimmy Miller today. They were shown and then tied the "Black Zulu"

"Black Zulu"

 

 

 

The next Cygnets session is on Sunday 15th September at Swanswater Fishery as normal - 09:15am, fishing from 09:30am and followed by fly tying.