Report from 12-25th October

We have again been plagued by low water since the last report, the guage barely managed above 7" from 12th October to 22nd October. A welcome rise of about 1' 6" freshened things up on Saturday 23rd October, although the rise rather spoiled fishing that day. Despite the good numbers of fish about, I still maintain that we need a 'proper' flood, ie one of at least 3-4' and sustained over a day or two, to clear things out and get some of those big, fresher, true autumn fish up from the middle/lower river.

Despite the conditions, fish still keep coming. Phil Howard was delighted to catch his first ever fish, a 4lb grilse, yesterday. Phil was fishing with Drew Bain, who also had a 10lb fish as did his father Iain who had a 12 pounder. Iain has had 4 fish in the last 10 days, and one day hooked 6 fish, but none were banked!

Phil with his first ever salmon


Other successes include 2 fish of 10lb and 6lb taken by Graeme Sutherland,a 10lb fish to regular Charlie McGhee, Graeme Dea with a fish of 12lb and Iain Bain's friend Andy taking a fish of 7lb.

Graeme Sutherland's 6lb fish


Hopefully we will have more successes to report this coming week.