Mid-week report 24th October

The Grandison party were on Cardrona on Friday and saw a few silver fish which was encouraging. Several very large fish also seen throughout the beat.

J Grandison and A Robertson at Castlehaugh Pool

Thinly dressed silver stoat variant

Slightly coloured 9lb salmon

Safely returned by Alan Ramsay

Mid-week report to 23 October

The river has fined down after last weekend's rain. The height today (23 Oct) was 1'4", good height, but we do not want it to drop much lower than that. Steven Dora had a 5lb salmon from the Rumbler on Monday, and on Wednesday Jim Docherty had a nice 5lb sea trout from The Nutwood and Iain Bain had a 5lb salmon from the Rumbler.

5lb sea trout

 

Sean McGarry had a good day today, taking 2 salmon from the Lower Nutwood (best 14lb) and a 3lb sea trout from the Castlehaugh Cheek. Sean also connected with a few other fish.

14lb salmon

Week beginning 13 October

Low water (7") persisted for the week, although there were fish in all the pools.

6 fish reported for the week, with Mr Hartle taking 2 fish - 14 & 15lbs - from the Castlehaugh Cheek and Nutwood respectively. Messrs Galka and Mankowski had 3 fish between them, largest 11bs and taken from the Castlehaugh Cheek and the Rumbler. The remaining fish was taken by one of the co-owners. The last day of the week was marred by another flood rendering the river mostly unfishable on Saturday.

This coming week, the 20 October, is looking very promising, with a falling water which is likely to hold a good level for the week and bring in (hopefully) lots of new fish.

Report for week beginning 6 October

After many months at low summer level, the river was in good condition after the heavy rain at the weekend. The river rose several feet and this brought up a good run of fish. Many of these are older river fish and coloured, however from now until the end of the season we should see some cleaner fish arriving should we get more water.

9 salmon and 2 sea trout reported so far this week.

Guest rod, Mr Wooding had two fish at 4.5lb and 8.5lb on Wednesday, both from the Castlehaugh Cheek.

Rob Mitchell, a guest, had a 6lb fish from the Dirtpot on Friday, pic below.

The remaining salmon and sea trout were caught by the fishery owners, some good fish caught and returned, including an 8lb sea trout and 18lb salmon.

Thursday 3rd July .two seatrout caught in the Dirtpot 1 at 5lb the second 2lb

Week starting 9th June

One of the co-owners went for a few casts Tuesday evening and managed to catch a 6lbs sea trout.

Same co-owner went for a few casts on Thursday evening and caught a 12lbs salmon both were returned.

Update from Tuesday 5th November to present

Fishing was excellent at the beginning of week beginning 4 November, Messrs Whalen and Maloney had 7 fish on the Tuesday, with the best 25lbs and our biggest fish so far this year. Bill Cook, fishing as a guest, had an excellent couple of days too, with 2 salmon and a sea trout on 8 November, and 2 salmon the following day. Best was 16lb and the fish came from the Castlehaugh Cheek and Bridge pools.

Special mention and congratulations to Tom Barton, who, fishing with Shun Washiya, landed his first salmon at 7lbs. The fish was taken from the very top of the beat, at Maggy's Tail.

Walter Davidson, fishing on 11 November, took a nice fish of 10lb from the Rumbler and on the same day Andy McLaughlan took a 5lb fish from the Castlehaugh Cheek.

Mr Morrison, fishing on 13 November caught an 8lb fish from the head of the Rumbler.

More fish were caught by the co-owners over this period. If any guest has been 'missed out' on the above, do please let us know and we will rectify.

Pictures from guests are always welcome, please just send to cardronafishings@yahoo.co.uk

As of the 15 November, the water is now getting low again and is sitting at 10". Please try and be sensitive about wading, as some new redds have been observed in the gravelly pool tails - these areas should be avoided if possible to reduce disturbance.