Water 7″ and still very warm for the time of year, so I think oxygen content must be low and hence a reluctance to take. Certainly no shortage of fish this week. Not even a tug for any of the Fairnilee rods that I knew of before I left at 2.30 for the long drive […]
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Fairnilee, Tweed November 1st 2024
Water down to 8ins, gin clear and very mild. Learned at the hut this morning that 2 of our fishers caught fish of 11 and 25lbs last night as it was getting dark on full floating lines and tiny flies – for heavens sake, in November! Anyway well done to them. Needless to say I […]
Fairnilee, Tweed 31st October 2024
Happy Halloween! Water ebbing away, 10″ on the Peebles gauge. Nasty downstream wind and bright sun, none of which assisted our cause. Disappointment also to see that Sunderland Hall have cut down all the trees opposite Arras’s Putt so no shade now. And, Wattie’s famous “third Poplar” tree is no longer! The Sunderland Hall rods […]
30th October 2024 Traquair, Tweed.
Water down to about 10″ on the gauge and getting on the low side. but a nice mild fishing day. In the morning, I got a really quite fresh 5lb fish from the top beat, but felt sorry for it so put it back – we can still keep a fish if fresh and a […]
Traquair, Tweed 29th October 2024
The small rise of water we had yesterday has dropped away (about 10″ on the Peebles gauge) and we saw fewer fish moving today. However, I managed a 4lb cock Grilse from below the road bridge, a 9lb fish was landed at the Mound and a 13lb fish from the New house pool (middle beat […]
Tweed, Traquair 28th October 2024 a big fish!
Water 1ft on the gauge and stead all day. Mild and light breeze. Perfect conditions. 3 fish that I know of on Traquair today and I was lucky enough to catch two of them and lost another. This one my best Scottish fish to date from the junction with the Leithen, Measured and witnessed by […]
7th September 2024 River Shin, Sutherland.
Salmon fishing can be a great leveler! Just when you think you have pretty much nailed it, it can come back to bite you. Saturday on the lovely little river Shin, dawned with a heavy mist lifting off the loch and the inevitable midge hatch. But they were soon blown away along with the clouds […]
6th September 2024 River Shin, Sutherland.
Another day of damp misty conditions in the morning and blazing sun not helping all afternoon – thankful for my Russian mosquito net as midges very irritating on a couple of the pools! But I managed a very angry old 15lb cock fish off the top water in the morning and lost a smaller fish […]
5th September 2024 River Shin, Sutherland
Fished the lower beats in the morning. Weather over cast but dry. A 5lb grilse for Alan W and a 5lb grilse for me. I also lost two other fish. Pm on the upper water where blazing sunshine didn’t assist our cause but once the sun was off the water, I managed a reasonably fresh […]
4th September 2024 River Shin, Sutherland.
Up on the delightful river Shin in Sutherland with Desmond A. The Shin is dam controlled, so regular releases give a fairly constant water height through fast flowing rocky pools and runs. Quite a few fish showing on my first evening, two of which fell to my rod. 13lbs and 5lbs both slightly coloured. A […]
