Thursday 29th October

The upper river seems to be coming into its own this week with the beats above Boleside catching decent numbers of fish for the first time this season, Fairnilee alone declaring 15 fish in the last two days. There is no doubt that they're heading our way. Robert Davidson and Charles Jeffrey fished yesterday and - although they failed to bank any fish - I'm informed they did hook a couple.






Today, Dave Parkes landed and returned a conservatively-estimated 12lber from the Rumbler and the writer of this piece hooked a big fish that fought spectacularly only to shed the fly in the last moments of the battle. There is no picture of Dave lovingly cradling his fish due to the inability of the photographer to take an unblurred image.







Tomorrow's forecast is for rain so river levels should be maintained.