River Tweed
River Report Week Ending 5th August
Another
week of very unsettled river conditions with silly little rises almost daily
just keeping the fish of the take. A bit more water pushed through with a near
4ft rise on the Teviot on Thursday, which ran through pretty quick. There
continues to be Seals seen in the Milne Graden/Ladykirk area. Some good sized
Salmon and Sea Trout were caught over the week with a catch of 169 Salmon and
61 Sea Trout reported with the best fish for the week 21lb Salmon from Upper
Makerstoun and 15lb Sea Trout from Bemersyde.
Above
Kelso there were 39 Salmon reported with the best of the catches made at on the
Makerstoun Beats with 9, Upper Floors 6 & Lower Floors with 10.
Bemersyde
Head Ghillie Mr Ian Farr reports “Very quiet!”
Upper and
Lower Makerstoun Head Boatman Mr Colin Pringle reports “9 Salmon for the week,
inc a fly caught 21lb fish from the Laird’s Cast. Mr Colin Nicholl also had
success”
Between
Kelso and Coldstream 95 Salmon and 42 Sea Trout were reported with catches
spread out over this area, with the some of the better catches been made on
Junction 12 Salmon & 13 Sea Trout, Hendersyde 13 Salmon and 4 Sea Trout,
Sprouston 15 Salmon and 11 Sea Trout, Birgham Dub 17 and 6 Sea Trout, Lower
North Wark 14, West Learmouth 8 Salmon and the Lees with 9 Salmon.
Hendersyde
Head Boatman Ketch reports “A frustrating week with too many wee lifts, which
are good for the river and shifts fish about but hard going for the rods if the
fish don’t stop. Luckily they did on Saturday and we finished the week in style
landing 11 Salmon and 2 Sea Trout on the fly. 13 Salmon and 4 Sea Trout for the
week”
On Upper
North Wark, it was a quiet start to the week, then after the lift of water over
night on Thursday we saw quite a few fish running through the snipe on Friday.
We finished the week with 2 Salmon and 2 Sea Trout taken on the Carrot Rapala.
Below Coldstream
23 Salmon were landed. The best of the fishing was had at Tillmouth with 7, Milne
Graden 4, while on Ladykirk 9 Salmon were landed.
Milne
Graden Head Boatman Mr Kevin Wright reports “4 Grilse for the weel all around
the 4lb mark. 3 of them on Thursday, 1 was been played as the seal came over
the cauld, then another was caught and 1 lost just after it swam through the
pool. I have never heard of this before. Lost a couple more fish and a few
pulls over the week. Seen fish running most of the week and with a river full
of seals no wonder they aren’t hanging about. On Saturday evening we saw a fair
few fish bow waving through”
Ladykirk
Head Ghillie Mr Matthi Viethen reports “Good
start on Monday with 4, including biggest for
the week, 14lb fresh, for day rod. Rest of the week very unsettled with 1 on Tuesday, tiny grilse of 2lb (hopefully won't see many more
of those...). On Thursday, syndicate member got the
only 2 fish for the day at 9 and 4 lb. Friday, not
to mention, and finishing the week with 2 grilse to syndicate rods. And yes,
some seals going about too...”
Mr
Douglas Aitken fishing at Ladykirk reports “River
unsettled with the very heavy showers so the beats below Coldstream struggled
with the rise and colour those above did not fare much better. There were the
usual exceptions where the lucky rods found fish and did very well with both
Salmon and Sea Trout. With conditions against me I headed to Ladykirk on
Saturday evening and saw a good number of fish moving through the Pedwell pool
and had a nice wee Grilse. Keep your fly in the water and you may just meet
with success”
On the
tributaries, the main beats on the Till had a quieter-week with 3 Salmon and 4
Sea Trout reported. Lower Tindal 2 Sea Trout, Flodden 1 Salmon and 2 Sea Trout
and Tiptoe with 2 Salmon.
Mr David
Cowan of Berwick and District Angling Association reports” Water levels remained under a foot all week which is good
for this time of year however there were very few anglers out on the water.
Only one Sea Trout to caught despite reports of fish throughout all beats, a
nice 21 inch 3lb fish, caught on size 14 Silver March Brown.”
The week
ended with the level at Sprouston 10” and the water temperature is 58.
Looking
at the availability for the upcoming week I would suggest Upper Dryburgh, Milne
Graden beats should have a good chance of some action this coming week, while
at £60 Upper North Wark provides good value with the chance of a fish.
The
forecast this coming week looks quite unsettled with some showery weather
forecast with a south westerly breeze. Wednesday looks like the wind will swing
to the North before reverting to south west for the rest of the week.
As always
I would like to thank all those who provide me with the information to make
this report, it is very much appreciated. If you have information and photo’s
you would like included please get in touch with Martin on 07825334427 or info@taysalmonfly.co.uk
Water
temperatures are starting to rise to a level where dressed flies in sizes 8 or
10, If you prefer tubes over dressed flies 1/2” and 3/4” should be about right.
Copper Cascade, Cascader, Newtyle Shrimp, Ghillie, Pot Belly Pig, Editor Sunray
Shadow, Red Frances 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 Carrot Rapala Tobies in 18gm – 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
1674 (Biggest 22lb Junction)
Sea Trout
581 (Biggest 15lb Bemersyde)
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