Archive | River Tay

Donald’s comment on the conditions: “If you arrived to fish at this time of year and got these conditions you would think you had won the lottery!” Water 1ft 1ins on Tony’s gauge, 45 degrees, mild and slight cloud, light breeze. So we fished furiously all day for not so much as a pull… until […]

Perfect water height and lovely fishing conditions. Seen several fish but other than one on for about 3 or 4 minutes on a fly from the boat on the upper water, absolutely nothing to show for our efforts. Strange game this!

River down to 1ft 5ins on Caputh gauge. Overcast and strong downstream wind making casting on some of the pools tricky.  Nothing from the Upper Water but on Stenton fishing in Tony’s boat, just before lunch Cecil D landed a fresh fish of 8lbs. Then, just as soon as they got the boat back out, he immediately […]

Water 1ft 9in yesterday fining down to 1ft 6ins today and just coming to the right height where we will start to hold fish. Several fish seen today and we had three encounters, two from Donald’s boat on the lower water and one from Tony’s boat on the upper water. Possibly running fish still moving […]

The river level held stubbornly at 3ft on the gauge for the day, dropping barely an inch by close. Frustrated by the awkward height Colin put the boats out for a harl on our last afternoon to see if we could get someone into a fish and he hooked what he reckoned was a big […]

Water rising all day on heaving rain last night and this morning. 3ft on Colin’s gauge as we left and still rising. Several more fish seen going through but they aren’t stopping for anything. Oh bother…. or words to that effect.

Basic course with 6 novices and 3 more experienced rods so not a great deal of water coverage on the first day. But with the River at 2’5″ on Dalmarnock gauge after fairly heavy rain yesterday, it is still a little too high to stop fish running straight through. Fishing conditions were good with a slight upstream […]