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.