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Water 7″ and still very warm for the time of year, so I think oxygen content must be low and hence a reluctance to take. Certainly no shortage of fish this week. Not even a tug for any of the Fairnilee rods that I knew of before I left at 2.30 for the long drive […]

Water down to 8ins, gin clear and very mild. Learned at the hut this morning that 2 of our fishers caught fish of 11 and 25lbs last night as it was getting dark on full floating lines and tiny flies – for heavens sake, in November! Anyway well done to them. Needless to say I […]

Happy Halloween! Water ebbing away, 10″ on the Peebles gauge. Nasty downstream wind and bright sun, none of which assisted our cause. Disappointment also to see that Sunderland Hall have cut down all the trees opposite Arras’s Putt so no shade now. And, Wattie’s famous “third Poplar” tree is no longer! The Sunderland Hall rods […]

Water down to about 10″ on the gauge and getting on the low side. but a nice mild fishing day. In the morning, I got a really quite fresh 5lb fish from the top beat, but felt sorry for it so put it back – we can still keep a fish if fresh and a […]

The small rise of water we had yesterday has dropped away (about 10″ on the Peebles gauge) and we saw fewer fish moving today. However, I managed a 4lb cock Grilse from below the road bridge, a 9lb fish was landed at the Mound and a 13lb fish from the New house pool (middle beat […]

Water 1ft on the gauge and stead all day. Mild and light breeze. Perfect conditions. 3 fish that I know of on Traquair today and I was lucky enough to catch two of them and lost another. This one my best Scottish fish to date from the junction with the Leithen, Measured and witnessed by […]

Scotland Tour September 5th to 27th 2023. There are times when I truly despair! 5th September we drove up to stay with Cecil D on the Spey at Grantown and fish a couple of days on Tulchan A beat with John Anderson the ghillie. We arrived at the beat to find the water level off […]

FAIRNILEE. Water remained stubbornly at 2ft 4ins all day but at least the wind dropped a little so there were slightly fewer leaves. Fewer being a relative term! However, it was refreshing, particularly in light of our chances of ever returning to Russia being almost non-existant and my missing the fun we have had with […]

FAIRNILEE Water height remained stubbornly at 2ft 6ins all day and wind causing lots of leaves did not help our cause. However, I was lucky and managed a hen fish of 12lbs from the tail of Russells Rock and a 15lb cock fish from Rae Weil. Very welcome I can assure you! On a more […]

FAIRNILEE. Great to be back on Fairnilee. I have to commend Mark Hislop the Boatman (Even with no boat, they are traditionally “boatmen” on Tweed not ghillies! Why, on the upper river I don’t know but hey ho.) The beat is just so beautifully kept and the fishing lodge in the old sawmill, quite the […]