Stillwater · Mixed · Aberdeenshire

Midmar Still Waters Fishery

Midmar sits in the Aberdeenshire country west of the city, in the quiet rolling farmland around Echt and Midmar.

Mario Prager

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Reasonable summer fishing likely at Midmar Still Waters Fishery

Useful ripple, fishable wave. Worth a session if the wind holds.

54% confidence

What moved it

WindNW 10 km/hLight breeze

Today’s fly

Kate McLaren12-14

Retrieve, in the film

Live now

Conditions on the water

Live gauge

Trends shown where the gauge supports them

Wind

Light breeze

NW 10 km/h

from the north-west

Wave

20 cm ripple

glasstoo rough

Water temp

—

No reading

Air temp

10°C

coldhot

Cloud

Broken

Pressure

1021 hPa

lowhigh

Rain · recent

0.0 mm

drywet

Some readings unavailable — check directly before fishing.

How to fish it · for rainbow

When

April to October

Where

Start with Diawl Bach (12-14) — on the bob / top dropper. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses. If that does not produce, switch depth or speed before changing the pattern entirely.

The plan

Plan A

Plan B

Fish early and late, try deeper during the heat of the day with a fast-sinking line.

Watch for

Evening tends to be the best period in summer — stay late if you can for a sedge or spinner fall.

Bank

Bank fishing near inflows, dam walls, and weed beds. Move to find feeding fish.

Through the year

0–3 scale · July highlighted

Daphnia Swarm

Daddy Long Legs

Lake Olive

Silverhorns & Longhorns

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today

Rainbow fly box

What's coming

Plan ahead

5-day outlook

Condition match

79%

Cloud70%

Wind100%

Temp60%

A good match for this venue — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.

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About this water

Midmar sits in the Aberdeenshire country west of the city, in the quiet rolling farmland around Echt and Midmar. It's a commercial stillwater fishery — one or two stocked lochs, rainbow trout, fly-only, day tickets. What it offers that the Aberdeen commercials inside the city don't is scale and setting: you're out in proper country, the lochs are larger, and the fishing has more of the feel of a stillwater day out rather than a quick after-work session. Useful for Aberdonians who want to get away from the suburban feel of the closer-in fisheries, and for anyone based in Royal Deeside or Donside who wants a change from river fishing.