Cardrona - before and now

View from the old Cardrona to Peebles 'back road' at the back of the pasture at Cardrona. The same view from 1985 and 2015.

A few fish

The water has been high over the last few weeks - this has limited fishing effort, although there are fish there to be caught if the time is put in. Below are some fish caught in the last couple of weeks. Prospects look good for the final week. We can but hope for a late flurry of fresh fish to arrive.

Update: Nov 2015

It's been an unprecedented and highly unusual year in terms of conditions - very low summer levels have persisted from June right into November. Despite that, fish have been present but fishing effort has been very low. Conditions have improved markedly in terms of water height, but we now have the opposite problem of too much water! Fish are present in good numbers, so if things do settle we should see catches improve in the last few weeks.

Some photos will be posted shortly........

First fish of 2015

Fen Howieson opened the Cardrona account today with a fantastic sea trout, conservatively estimated at 13lbs based on a measured length of 34". The fish was taken on a size 6 Silver Doctor from the Castlehaugh Cheek. Unfortunately we do not have any pictures of the fish.

Just when we were expecting the season to close on a quiet front, one of the co-owners landed this 18lb fish and lost another similar size silver fish on one of our best holding pools. Experience and resilience count when it comes to the end of the Tweed season.

MMcL

Take care - spawning fish

Anglers are asked to take particular care when wading in this last week of the season. Redds are being cut, and fish are now spawning in the gravels. Please avoid wading in the tails of pools where fish are observed spawning, and avoid fishing in areas where fish are cutting redds and spawning. Sensitive areas include the tail of the Rumbler above the island, tail of Dirtpot and tail of Nutwood and Lower Nutwood.

Update - November 12th and 13th 2014

Iain Bain the most experienced owner at Cardrona was down for a cast Wednesday and Thursday, with an 8lb salmon returned to the Nutwood Pool on Wednesday and and a 9lb salmon (see image below) returned to The Rumbler on Thursday, a reasonably fresh fish. Mr Sutherland also had a seatrout around 3lb from the Nutwood Pool on Thursday.

Experienced rods are "picking away" but as yet we have not experienced prolific runs of fresh fish coming through the system, despite recurring high water conditions over the past two weeks.

A couple of recent images ;

9lb Salmon, Rumbler

Seatrout, in motion, Nutwood Pool

MMcL