Water steady at 1ft 7ins and clear. Good height for the Lower Water but strangely we did not see many fish today. Maybe the sun had something to do with it, because the success story of the day was Derek C who was fishing in the shade down by the Bargee stone and in a […]
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Tay 5th May 2016 – 2 today
Water still dropping slowly, around 1ft 8ins on the Caputh gauge and clear. We had a run of fish come through us at about 12 noon and we (well ok, I…) managed to stop one from the right bank of the Tronach, a sea-liced 7 pounder and one from the left bank just after lunch […]
Tay 4th May 2016 A first fish!
Water dropping but only slowly. Back to just under 2ft when we arrived on the Lower Water but nice and clear. Not much happened until mid morning when David S hooked and promptly lost a fish at the top of the spruces – He apparently then received a right bollocking from the Ghillie because his reel drag had been left […]
Tay 3rd May 2016 Close and one cigar
Stop press: David S, fishing below the Black rocks got an 8lb sea-liced fish almost last cast which I didnt find out about until after writing the report below. He described it as a triumph of experience over hope fishing somewhere he was told there was no point in fishing. He will be taking the classes […]
Tay report Monday May 2nd 2016
So much for perfect conditions and low water. Water just over the 1ft 6in mark when we arrived this morning. Thank goodness I thought, the heavy rain we had last night must have not fallen in the west. Got the team started and saw several fish… any minute now I thought… and then a large […]
Tay on arrival Sun 1st May 2016
The river at the Caputh Bridge is standing steady at around the 1ft (pipe well out of the water) mark despite some considerable snow in the hills and fairly heavy rain on the drive up. According to Fishtay Tony had 25 on Stenton and Upper Murthly last week so there must be a good few fish about. […]
Tay April week Summary 2016
Post script 14th April 2016 – Having reported below, to prove the water height importance at Murthly, Donalds new group got 6 fish from the Lower Water on Monday including a 20 pounder and has had another three that I know about since. Water height 1ft 6ins! Well that’s two consecutive years when the weather […]
Tay report 8th April 2016
At last water down to a near sensible height (2ft 1ins) and as predicted a lot more activity. Several pulls reported by different rods and a fish lost for John E on the Green Bank. But at least we did managed to land a brace of nice fresh 10 pounders for the book. One for John M from […]
Tay Report 7th April 2016
Water dropping to 2ft 3ins and clear. Other than a couple of fish seen and a nicely performed backward summersault into the back water just above the Burn pool by Simon C, there was very little doing until Graham M managed to hook and land a nice fresh fish of about 10lbs on fly from the […]
Tay report 6th April 2016
Water dropping back. About 2ft 8ins on arrival this morning at the lower hut. Should have been just coming to the ideal height and the weather remained good, but we only saw one fish all day which was running up the middle of Sparrowmuir and we ended with nothing to show for our efforts. New team on tomorrow, […]
