Wednesday, 10 November 2010

Report 25 Oct - 9 Nov


We've had a good fortnight's fishing, over 30 fish have been recorded since our last report, and some nice sea trout too. Last week 27 salmon were recorded, our best week to date. Water conditions have been good, sitting around 2' for some time, although higher water at the beginning of this week made for difficult conditions.

Notable catches for visiting rods so far in November include Nigel Griffiths with 8 salmon, including one of 23lb, our biggest so far; Geoff Badlands with 1; Alastair Dunbar with 3; Andrew Bendall with 1 and John Earwalker with 1. A few sea trout have also been caught, with Graeme Ritchie recording a nice 4 1/2 pounder.

A rather wobbly video of a 12 pounder being played and returned in the tail of the Rumbler.

Wednesday, 3 November 2010

The Rumbler circa 1980

Looking downstream....


Looking upstream....

Tuesday, 2 November 2010

Old photos of Cardrona

Below is a photograph of the casting instructor, Peter Anderson, hosting a casting demonstration at Cardrona in the late 1950s. The photograph is taken below the railway bridge on the left bank, looking downstream into the Rumbler Pool.

More photographs, in colour, will be added in the next few days, courtesy of Andy from Motherwell who kindly provided these for inclusion when he was down at the beat a few days ago.