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.

Report for week beginning 28 October

 

The week of 28 October provided some excellent fishing, with 20 salmon reported up to to 20lbs. Successful guests included Mr Landale with 2 salmon, Mr Parkin with 3 salmon, Mr Layburn with 1 salmon and Mr Truesdale with 2 salmon and a nice 8lb sea trout. The remaining fish were caught by the co-owners.

 

 

Two big autumn fish, returned. Approx 20lbs and 18lbs

Now that the water temperature has dropped, medium to fast sink tips should be deployed, together with dressed doubles or plastic/metal tubes, depending on the water height and speed. Succesful patterns include the Posh Tosh, Silver Stoat and Cascade.

The Tweed is experiencing a good run of particularly large fish this autumn, so make sure your cast is robust and well put together – we would recommend 15-20lb breaking strain minimum.

Good prospects

We have had a good week so far with rods on the water today still to add to the total.

Approx. 16lb cock fish returned Friday by Brian Marshall one of the owners .

More rain is due later today and Sunday so prospects for early in the week are good. Book via the FishTweed website.

A better week

Cardrona reported 10 salmon in the last week. This coincided with a large run of fish which took the high water on the Monday, and a good number of clean fish were amongst these. We are pleased that some visiting rods got some action.Mr Scott reported 2 fish on Monday and Mr Robb took 1 fish each on the Friday and Saturday. A couple of days were unlet, so catches could have been better. The remaining 6 fish were taken by the co-owners.

There are plenty of fish in the river now, so prospects are very good if conditions stabilise.

At last some water and fish

Conditions have improved markedly; some showers at the end of last week brought the river up to a foot by the weekend, we had 4 fish on the Friday, including 2 to visitor Mr Jones (15lb and 8 lb). Another on Saturday was reported and then 3 fish yesterday (Monday), with another visitor, Mr Scott, accounting for two of these (12lb and 10lb). Most of the fish have been coloured, however, the bigger water yesterday, at about 1’5”, saw lots of fish running, and quite a few of these were very fresh, briefly heading and tailing as they ran upstream. 

At last we have had a proper big water this morning (Tuesday), with it showing over 3 feet on the Peebles gauge – this will give the fishing a great boost, and we anticipate some decent sport in the coming weeks, if it remains settled with the odd shower to keep things moving.

Nice sea trout

7lb approx sea trout taken from the tail of the Dirtpot on Tuesday by one of the co-owners. Fly - size 10 Stoat's Tail with orange throat.

Another slight rise in the water levels

Here is hoping the rain this morning added to this chart from upriver. Ever the optimists we are hopeful of a fish or two Saturday or Monday.

Cardrona Beat

September 20th - Another Fresh Fish from the Nutwood

One of the owners was down for a cast on September 20th, to find a small run of grilse had run up into the beat. This was a suberb example of the fresh fish which can be encountered at Cardrona given the right water conditions. Taken in the Nutwood Pool on a size ten silver bodied Tosh.