Stillwater · Mixed · Stirlingshire, GB-SCT

Swanswater Fishery

Swanswater Fishery venue image
Fair · Rainbow
Marabou Damsel · 8-12
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Reasonable summer fishing likely at Swanswater Fishery
Useful ripple, fishable wave. Worth a session if the wind holds.
58% confidence

Swanswater Fishery is often best in spring through autumn.

What moved it
  • WindSW 9 km/hLight breeze
Today's fly
Marabou Damsel
Marabou Damsel8-12
Retrieve, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Light breeze
SW 9 km/h
N
SW
from the south-west
WaveRipple
Water temp
Air temp13°C
CloudOvercast
Pressure1018 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

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How to fish it · for Rainbow
When
Current conditions suit Swanswater Fishery well for summer tactics. The ripple should help fish move and feed more confidently. Early morning is often the most productive window in summer — make the most of it.
Where
Start with Marabou Damsel (8-12) — on the point. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
The plan
Plan A

Start with Marabou Damsel (8-12) — on the point. Early in the day, try buzzers on a slow figure-of-eight or a booby on a fast-sink line near the bottom. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.

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-only venue. Fish from accessible margins, points, weed edges, and inflows.

Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

Hatch predictions

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

Hatch predictions

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Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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F
M
A
M
J
J
A
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N
D
Daphnia SwarmHatch
2
3
3
3
2
Daddy Long LegsHatch
2
3
2
Lake OliveHatch
2
3
3
3
3
3
2
Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
1
2
2
2
1

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
73%
Cloud50%
Wind100%
Temp60%

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

Other water nearby · 5
Gallery · 1
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Why this score
  • Wind conditions (ripple) closely match what this water fishes best in.
Directions
Seasons & zones
TodayFishing closed on Sundays. Sunday fishing banned on some rivers (Tweed system, some estates). Not universal — many Scottish waters allow Sunday fishing. Check locally. This rule is applied conservatively as a regional default; river-level overrides should open Sunday where confirmed legal.Closed
  • Trout year-roundyear-round
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