I have now confirmed the dates of my next Salmon Fishing & Spey Casting Course being 30th March to 1st April 2017 at Dalmarnock Water on the Tay. For more details, please click here to go to my venues page for more details about the beat https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/venues/river-tay/ details about the course https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/courses/salmon-fishing/basic/ And to book https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/shop/courses-fishing/river-tay/3-day-salmon-fishing-course-dalmarnock-30th-march-2017/ Otherwise please […]
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David Monk checks out…
I am very sad to have to report that David Monk finally passed away yesterday (19th June) at the age of 94. David will be well known to many of my fishing friends and pupils as he was a regular at Upper Caberston and my Murthly Castle Scottish salmon courses and came on many of my overseas trips. […]
Tay week of 2nd May 2016 – ends on a bonanza!
As previously reported, the first couple of days of the week were spoiled by a lift in water to nearly 4ft but as the river dropped as the week went on, so our chances improved. Saturday ended our week with a veritable bonanza, after I had had to leave early in the morning to drive south for […]
Tay 6th May 2016 – 2 more today
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 […]
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 […]
