Wednesday, 3 September 2014

Back on the Tweed

I'm back in the borders and the upper tweed is starting to see more salmon and seatrout moving about.
There's been a few fish caught in ashiestiel since my absence but not many.
The river is currently quite low at the moment and after a few runs Down gladdies I decided to try my luck with the trout.


Lovely Ashiestiel trout fell for the emerger. Just over 1lb.


Little grayling taken on the dry fly, small brown emerger.
We need some rain when this happens I'm sure there will be plenty of fish to be caught

So far September has been extremely dry and the river is at its lowest so far this year.
It's the 14th of September last year the rain came on the 19th let's hope something similar happens.

15th September 2014

Today I had a days guiding with a client from America called Taylor Killion.
He'd come over early for some fishing before work, we met on the 14th for a half day catching a few small grayling and 1 little trout.
Because of the cold temperatures the fishing was tough and we went back for a few pints and a good meal.
The next morning we met up at 9.00 and headed down to the river tweed on lower pavilion beat to try our luck on the trout and grayling again.
On his 7th cast he was into a big fish and 25 minutes later I netted his 1st Atlantic salmon taken on a nymph.


5lb grilse caught by Taylor Killion.

The rest of the day was tough due to cold conditions but thankfully at the end Killion landed a few trout and this lovely grayling.


Well done boy you should be really proud and you really made my day THANXS.

20.09.2014

Quick update for September.
We have survived the referendum and Scotland is staying within the UK thank goodness
Now could we please have some rain so that the salmon can be caught.

24.09.2014




Had some time to tie some salmon flies before the rains come.
These are just some ideas that I had these have no names. 
I like to make my own variations so giving names can be a bit tricky.
I have also been preparing patterns for the back end of the season and the 12th January 2015 which is when I will be fishing the Helmsdale.

Kirsty's 1st fish on the fly caught on the river tweed, ashiestiel beat, gladdies 
A lovely 8oz grayling taken on a caddis nymph.