River
Tweed River Report Week Ending 27th May
The week
started off with good fishing weather and some reasonable catches before we
were hit with very hot and sunny weather from Wednesday. Temperatures reached
30 degrees in the second half of the week which made catching fish much harder,
but the beats who were out fishing early while it was a bit cooler reported a
few fish, many of them with sea liced.
Above
Kelso catches were unsurprisingly quiet, Middle Mertoun having the best fishing
with 9 for the week. Middle Pavillion 2 and Lower Pavillion with 4 also enjoyed
the limited success.
Between
Kelso and Coldstream catches were also still quite quiet, Junction 3, Upper
Hendersyde 2, Sprouston 3, Hendersyde 8, Birgham Dub 10, Lower Birgham 1 and
West Learmouth 1 were the only beats between Kelso and Coldstream to get some
sport.
Given the
water height the fishing below Coldstream was a quiet this week, possibly due
to a bit of colour in the water from the recent small rises. 16 fish were
reported with he best of the catches were at Ladykirk 5 & Tweedhill 7.
Hendersyde
Head Boatman Ketch reports “Difficult conditions with it being so bright but we
picked away and ended the week with 8 Salmon, mostly fresh and some with lice”
On
Birgham Dub, the Seaton party fished the first 3 days of week and
took 8 fish with them. The Wooten party struggled later part of week getting
one fish on an early morning start.
Mr
Douglas Aitken fishing at Ladykirk & Cornhill reports “We were on Ladykirk
and Cornhill this week. The very hot and bright conditions were not helpful and
the river was very low and clear. We fished the tip stream on Wednesday and saw
very few fish until 12pm when there was 20 minutes of activity but no takers.
Cornhill was very low but always a pleasure to be there and have a chat with
Brendan and Tam. I went back to Ladykirk on Saturday and managed to land a fish
from the tip stream after trying every fly in the box! A hard week for all I
think we need a proper flood.”
Mr Alex
Knox, owner of the fabulous Contented Vine restaurant in Kelso landed a lovely
7lb Long Tailed Licer from the Cornhill best on Tuesday. If you’re in the area,
we would highly recommend the Contented Vine for lovely food and great service.
The week
ended with the level at Sprouston 2” and the water temperature is 64.
Looking
at the availability for the upcoming week I would suggest West Learmouth,
Pedwell, Horncliffe and Tweedhill beats should have a good chance of some
action this coming week.
The
forecast looks a bit better this week with some rain, cloud and a lot cooler
than last week.
Water
temperatures are starting to rise to a level where dressed flies in sizes 10 or
12 should be about right. Blacko’s Dee Special, Gledswood Shrimp, Ghillie,
Underghillie, Girnal Shrimp and if you fancy giving a Sunray Shadow a strip it
should bring success fished off floating lines with poly leaders, while on the
spinning front the 13cm Blue Rapala, Black/Gold Rapala Tobies in 12gm –
20gm and with the water temperature getting up a bit now the flying c should
bring some success. As always come prepared and always listen to the advice of
your boatman or ghillie.
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Season So
Far catches as reported on Fishtweed.
Salmon
637 (Biggest 22lb Junction)
Sea Trout
76 (Biggest 8lb Lower Birgham & Junction)
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