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Water up again on heavy showers in the west yesterday. A few fish seen running through but nothing to show for our efforts yet again!

Water remained irritatingly just to high for us to reach any running fish and too high to stop the ones we saw. Cecil d saved the blank with a 3 lb sea trout but what a disappointment only 2 fish for the week, I think the worst week I have ever had – though I […]

We seem dogged by fluctuating water heights this year. The lower beat up by over 6ins yesterday on more overnight rain and it’s still raining! One fish lost after a brief but furious fight in the boat pool. Typical of a running fish just nipping the fly as it ran through, which is what happens […]

Water up over 6ins and slightly coloured.  A few fish seen on the upper water but not sure any we’re fresh and nothing to show for our efforts. Interestingly the number of fish through the dam so far this year is a small fraction of the number through this time last year. Are they yet […]

Water up 4 ins on overnight rain and slightly coloured. 2 encounters with one landed a  lovely fresh 12lb fish for Andrew p from the left bank of the Garth.

Water steady at 1ft 4ins and overcast. Nothing in the morning then just as we started going out in the afternoon there were fish showing everywhere but they were through and gone before our team got going. Only Cecil d had a brief encounter. Just before lunch they got 3 on glen delving!!!

Water height 1ft 4ins, overcast and mild. 2 encounters both from the left bank of the boat pool and both on the fly. The first hooked by roger b and lost after a minute and the second lost in the afternoon almost at the net by David m. Otherwise zip.

A week of frustrating water levels, about sums up our first week at Murthly this year. Just as the water was coming down to a good height (2′ and under) the week before – and yielding up 11 fish – a big rain belt swept through the west on the Sunday and up she went. 3′ […]

Still plagued by higher water than Murthley likes, on Wednesday Terry C. managed to get two fish 7lbs and 8lbs from the right bank of the Tronach whilst Tony in the boat managed three more 2 on the Harled fly one on a Kynoch. Yesterday under seemingly ideal conditions but the water still a little too high […]

We arrived with the water level at 3″ 7′ up from 2″2′ the previous day which was not an ideal height for Murthley but never the less Cecil D. got a 7 pounder from Sparrowmuir, Graham M. got a 10 pounder from the left bank of the Garth and two more fish were lost. On […]