17th March 2021. Our season opens at the farm. Good fishing conditions except that a chilly easterly breeze produced a slightly slow start for the always early Chris J – Note that we are avoiding the usual group opening day due to Covid restrictions. But by mid morning it had warmed and several fish were […]
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Christopher Robinson
It is with great sadness that I learned yesterday of the death of Christopher Robinson. He had apparently been being treated for Cancer for the past few months. Christopher was the founding partner of Roxton Bailey Robinson, now Roxtons, with whom I have taken fly fishers all over the world for over 26 years. I […]
Scottish 2021 spring Salmon & Spey Casting courses cancelled.
Dear All, Coronavirus Update – Spring Salmon Courses 2021 CANCELLED. I hope this finds you all well. I write following the latest “Roadmaps” put out by Boris Johnson and Nicola Sturgeon. As a qualified accredited teacher, running long established training courses and with all schools back in England by March 8th , I can reopen my […]
Elibank 31st October 2020
My last day on Elibank was pretty much a washout. Gales and heavy rain with the water coloring and millions of leaves catching every cast. I fished until lunchtime and drew stumps early for the long drive home. No regrets. 9 salmon and a seatrout for my week and a nice fresh one in the […]
Elibank, Tweed. 30th October 2020
Arrived this morning to find the water up to about 2ft 6ins (The Sepa gauges are offline for some reason) and very dirty. The morning spent struggling with heavy sinking gear and leaves just about every cast. But never say never… mid stream down the Bridge Pool and I got a 4lb Seatrout. Not the […]
Elibank, Tweed 29th October 2020
Water 1ft 10ins and steady all day but a bit too high for Elibank according to Adam. The cause for tomorrow will not have been helped by strong wind and pissing rain most of the day which will at best hold the river up or worse lift it again. Nevertheless I did manage to hook […]
Fairnilee, Tweed, 28th October 2020
Sadly the river rose to 2ft 6ins overnight and was pretty colored for most of the morning dropping back to 2ft 1ins by close of play. A few plucks and pulls and a fish lost in Black Strand but otherwise we drew a blank. Tough going above 1ft 6ins on Fairnilee but it could fall […]
Fairnilee, Tweed 27th October 2020
Water height down a few ins on yesterday at 2ft 9ins and clear, overcast for the morning and then serious rain and wind this afternoon. I think we may be flooded tomorrow. 6 fish for the day from the beat, Black strand doing its stuff – a great pool as it ever was. And then […]
Tweed 2020 26th October
Back on Tweed for my first cast/last chance for a salmon this year! Came back to Fairnilee which I haven’t fished since 1992. The beat is in the excellent hands of the new (to me) ghillie Mark Hislop and my goodness has he done good works. A magnificent new rod room in the old sawmill […]
My on-line tackle shop now closed. 18th May 2020
With effect from todays date, I have taken the difficult decision to close my on-line tackle shop. Furthermore, unless or until I can find someone interested in taking on my ArrowHead tackle brand, I intend to bow out of the fishing tackle sector by the end if this year. This has nothing to do with […]
