Archive | River Tay

Water up to 4ft and slightly coloured, but did start to drop during the afternoon. Sidi had a good pull in the Girnals and we saw several fish moving during the day but nothing to show for our efforts on either beat. I repeat, Murthly just does not fish well at this height. More rain […]

Stop Press: No sooner written and published the report below when Nick D returned from fishing the left bank of the Garth, having  landed a nice fresh fish of 7lbs and lost another of about 10lbs. Well done Nick! Earlier… Water 3ft on the gauge on arrival and rising after steady rain all day. Exactly what happened to […]

Well at least it proved the point… Saturday water down to just under 2ft and on the lower water I managed another fish of 10lbs, Derek C added three more to his fish earlier in the week, 16lbs, 12lbs and 8lbs, Matthey G lost two more fish one of which broke his running line (A […]

Water down to 2ft 4ins and clear, at last getting somewhere near a better height for Murthly. I managed a cracking 15lb hen covered in sea-lice (long live the Prawn!) had another offer and Matthew G lost a fish after a good few minutes, all from the Right Bank of the Tronach. We didn’t see […]

Water still over 3ft for our day on Lower Water, still way too high for holding fish and slightly coloured adding to our woes. Nothing to show for our efforts.

Its stopped b…….y raining at last this morning. Water well over 3ft 6ins on the upper water, but at least high enough to bring the fish up the sides.  Jon K lost another salmon because his posh reel jammed for a second time, but did manage a 2lb Sea Trout for his pains. Derek C […]

update from my phone…. water 2ft 6ins and clearing am, Cecil d lost 2 fish in spruces one of which broke him, before the gales and driving rain made the river rise again and colour. It couldn’t get any worse!

Salmon  fishing can be a truly cruel mistress at times… Water at a lovely height for the latter part of last week. Donald had 5 on Saturday bring his total to 11 and Tony 20 for the week. One of the locals had 8 on the Town water by the bridge. Then the heavens opened. […]

Just had a chat with Donald, water height 1ft 6ins on the Caputh gauge and steady. Nice height for Murthly. Donald on Murthly 1 had 9 fish last week and has 4 so far this week, 3 of which came today. Tony on Murthly 2 has had 9 fish so far this week so there […]

Well, what can you say other than just 2 fish for the week, 8 & 10lbs both caught by Dennis P one on the fly the other on a Kynock, one from Murthly 1 with Donald, the other from Murthly 2 with Tony. But perhaps the score did paint a slightly worse picture than the […]