Charlie McGhee's fish
A bit of action in the Rumbler
Tuesday, 28 September 2010
Monday
The water was sitting about 7" on Monday and we recorded 3 fish. Charlie McGhee took a fish of around 8lb on a size 10 Red Francis, and Graham Dea took a fish of around 5lbs. One of the co-owners also had a fish of around 8lb on a small blue charm. Not too bad a day considering the levels are creeping down again.
Charlie McGhee's fish
A bit of action in the Rumbler
Charlie McGhee's fish
A bit of action in the Rumbler
Saturday, 25 September 2010
Quite a few fish about
The recent rise has encouraged fish up. Iain Bain reported a salmon and a sea trout during the week, and today he had a salmon around 7lbs.
One of the other co-owners had 4 salmon today, ranging from 4lbs-18lbs. The 18lb fish was a large hen,and pretty fresh for so far up. The observant will spot a little blood on the gill cover of the fish in the picture below, the fish was bleeding slightly from one gill, but recovered after about 5 minutes, and she was returned safely.
The successful fly was a yellow/red hairwing dressed sparse on a half inch aluminium tube conehead - fished off an intermediate tip.
18 lb hen fish
11lb hen fish
One of the other co-owners had 4 salmon today, ranging from 4lbs-18lbs. The 18lb fish was a large hen,and pretty fresh for so far up. The observant will spot a little blood on the gill cover of the fish in the picture below, the fish was bleeding slightly from one gill, but recovered after about 5 minutes, and she was returned safely.
The successful fly was a yellow/red hairwing dressed sparse on a half inch aluminium tube conehead - fished off an intermediate tip.
18 lb hen fish
11lb hen fish
Sunday, 19 September 2010
Another fish
The rise in water levels during last week seems to have encouraged more fish up. A coloured hen fish of around 7lbs was taken and returned. Water level was 5" which really is quite low for this time of year. The successful angler was fishing light - a 9' 6" #8 single hander with a floating line - the fly was a very lightly dressed nondescript pattern on a #10 salar double - orange with a strand of flash.
The fish
More water is needed to get a decent run of fish up - the middle and lower Tweed beats are having a bumper time of it, well over 1000 fish were taken during last week. Once we get a decent rise, it won't take long before Upper Tweed gets a good run of fish.
Dave fishes a nice cast round the Dirtpot at Dusk
The lower Dirtpot Pool looking downstream.Time will tell how well this will fish this year. The large willow came out during the big flood late last year (see right of picture). This may or may not have a detrimental effect on the gravels and substrate in the pool. It certainly has opened up more fishing, if nothing else.
The fish
More water is needed to get a decent run of fish up - the middle and lower Tweed beats are having a bumper time of it, well over 1000 fish were taken during last week. Once we get a decent rise, it won't take long before Upper Tweed gets a good run of fish.
Dave fishes a nice cast round the Dirtpot at Dusk
The lower Dirtpot Pool looking downstream.Time will tell how well this will fish this year. The large willow came out during the big flood late last year (see right of picture). This may or may not have a detrimental effect on the gravels and substrate in the pool. It certainly has opened up more fishing, if nothing else.
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