FEARS are growing for a fisherman who disappeared during gales near a loch where four men drowned four years ago.

Michael Pringle, 25, of Kilmarnock, East Ayrshire, failed to return to his camp on the shores of Loch Awe, Argyll, on Sunday morning.

Mr Pringle had spent Saturday night with his father at the Tight Line pub near the loch.

The bar is where Craig Currie, 30, Thomas Douglas, 36, William Carty, 47, and Stephen Carty, 42, of Glasgow, had been drinking before they drowned in March 2009.

Michael was last seen walking on the A85 near Kilchurn Castle at 1am on Sunday, when the conditions were extremely windy.