Stillwater · Mixed · Angus

Monikie Reservoir

Monikie Reservoir with calm open water, part of Monikie Country Park near Dundee.

Dundee's local water.

Fair · Rainbow
Marabou Damsel · 8-12
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Evening session looks promising at Monikie Reservoir
Good wave on — drift country. A useful wave. Work the productive shore.
63% confidence

Monikie Reservoir is often best in spring through autumn.

What moved it
  • WindSW 14 km/hGentle breeze
Today's fly
Marabou Damsel
Marabou Damsel8-12
Retrieve, sub-surface
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Wind
Gentle breeze
SW 14 km/h
N
SW
from the south-west
Wave20 cm ripple
Water temp—
Air temp23°C
CloudBroken
Pressure1018 hPa
Rain · recent0.0 mm

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How to fish it · for Rainbow
When
Conditions are not ideal but fishable at Monikie Reservoir. The ripple should help fish move and feed more confidently. Evening can bring a surface rise — have a dry fly or emerger ready.
Where
Start with Marabou Damsel (8-12) — on the point. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. Rainbows respond to more active retrieves — try short strips between pauses.
The plan
Plan A

Start with Marabou Damsel (8-12) — on the point. Evening can produce explosive surface takes — try a foam beetle or booby on a long leader. 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.

Either bank or boat

Good ripple suits both bank and boat. Bank: work inflows, dam walls, and points. Boat: broadside drift covering wind lanes.

Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

Hatch predictions

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Through the year
0–3 scale · August highlighted
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Trout seasonSeason
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Daphnia SwarmHatch
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
2
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Lake OliveHatch
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Silverhorns & LonghornsHatch
1
2
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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
65%
Cloud70%
Wind65%
Temp60%

A reasonable day here, though temperature isn't quite in the sweet spot.

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Gallery · 2
  1. Monikie Reservoir with calm open water, part of Monikie Country Park near Dundee.
    Monikie Reservoir, part of the country park near Dundee popular for bank fishing.
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

Dundee's local water. A Scottish Water reservoir set inside Monikie Country Park ten miles north-east of the city, leased for fishing and managed as a put-and-take rainbow and brown trout fishery. Boat and bank, fly-only, accessible and well-run. The country park setting means you share the reservoir with walkers, picnickers, the occasional kayaker and a great many dog-walking locals who will happily watch you cast for an hour without comment, and then ask if you've caught anything. It is not a wild experience. What it is, for a great many Dundee and Angus anglers, is the water they learned on and still come back to — a reliable evening session and a few fish, and a car park twenty minutes from the front door.

  • Reservoir
  • Mixed
Why this score
  • Caenis are in their seasonal window, boosting the chance of targeted feeding.
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Seasons & zones
  • Trout 1 April → 31 October
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