Stillwater · Mixed · Angus

Forbes of Kingennie

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A commercial complex on the Kingennie estate just outside Dundee, with several small lochs and ponds stocked with rainbow trout and a few browns for variety.

Fair · Rainbow
Minkie · 6-10
Fairlive now
Reasonable summer fishing likely at Forbes of Kingennie
Useful ripple, fishable wave. Worth a session if the wind holds.
58% confidence

Forbes of Kingennie is often best in spring through autumn.

What moved it
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Today's fly
Minkie
Minkie6-10
Retrieve, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Calm
SW 5 km/h
N
SW
from the south-west
WaveRipple
Water temp—
Air temp13°C
CloudOvercast
Pressure—
Rain · recent0.0 mm

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How to fish it · for Rainbow
When
Current conditions suit Forbes of Kingennie 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

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

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Through the year
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Daphnia SwarmHatch
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
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Lake OliveHatch
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Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
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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 Forbes of Kingennie — most conditions are close to what it fishes best in.

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About this water

A commercial complex on the Kingennie estate just outside Dundee, with several small lochs and ponds stocked with rainbow trout and a few browns for variety. Bait and fly across different waters — the fly lochs are clearly marked and run to different rules from the general-purpose ones. It's a proper estate operation: accommodation, restaurant, a wedding barn, and fishing as one leg of a broader country-leisure offering. That can be a turn-off for the purist and a genuine virtue for a family weekend, and both readings are right in their way. For a Dundee angler after a reliable couple of hours and a solid tea, Forbes of Kingennie is about as convenient as it gets.

  • Fishery
  • Mixed
Why this score
  • Wind conditions (ripple) closely match what this water fishes best in.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout year-round → year-round
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