River
Tweed River Report Week Ending 12th August
A rather
damp weekend gave us a rising river on Monday with a steady rise over
the day washing off beats below the Junction by mid-afternoon. As has been the
norm this season fishing has been quite productive on the back of these small
rises and a decent week of catches were made. Some good sized Salmon and Sea
Trout were caught over the week with a catch of 259 Salmon and 63 Sea Trout
reported with the best fish for the week 21lb Salmon from Milne Graden and 10lb
Sea Trout from West Learmouth.
Above
Kelso there were 62 Salmon reported with the best of the catches made at on the
Makerstoun Beats with 5, Upper Floors 14 inc a good day on Friday with
8 & Lower Floors with 10.
Bemersyde
Head Ghillie Mr Ian Farr reports “Very quiet!”
Upper and
Lower Makerstoun Head Boatman Mr Colin Pringle reports “Mixed bag of spanking
new liced fish to old river fish. Local Farmer Gareth Baird had 3 on Saturday.
A tad more water this week won’t do us any harm”
Between
Kelso and Coldstream 139 Salmon and 24 Sea Trout were reported with catches
spread out over this area, with the some of the better catches been made on
Junction 16, Upper Hendersyde 8, Sprouston 18, Birgham Dub 17, South Wark 13,
Lower North Wark 13, West Learmouth 12 and the Lees with 34 Salmon.
Upper
Hendersyde Head Boatman Mr Robert Jewels reports “Few nice fish, 8 Salmon best
17lbs, 1 Grilse, We’ve seen a few sea trout at the start of the week in the
dirty water. Also caught a Pacific Pink Salmon”
Hendersyde
Head Boatman Ketch reports “What looked like a promising week with a lift on
Monday and settling down, fish were on the move. My rods didn’t have luck
on their side and lost all bar 1 fish that took the fly. A very frustrating
week for them”
Lower
Birgham Head Boatman Mr Tom Davis reports “Few fresh grilse later on in the
week, very clean. Older bigger fish with a lot of red vent on them. Had 7
Salmon and 3 Sea Trout for the week. One of our best weeks of the season so
far”
On Upper
North Wark, it was a week of near misses with 5 fish lost at the start of the
week. The water dropped over the week and was back to 1” on our gauge by Saturday”
Below
Coldstream 54 Salmon were landed. The best of the fishing was had at Tillmouth
with 20, Milne Graden 11, while on Ladykirk 10 Salmon were landed.
Milne
Graden Head Boatman Mr Kevin Wright reports “River was a bit unsettled on
Monday, which put a bit of colour into it. 11 Salmon/Grilse and 3 Sea Trout for
the week, everything from fresh grilse to older salmon. Only 2 fish caught on
the spinner. Mr S Robins caught a fresh cock fish that was just over 18lbs and
returned. This was his 1st salmon from the Tweed and his
biggest to date. A second larger fresh hen salmon of 21.5lbs (Returned) was
caught on a Cascade on the dropper. There has been fish running through the
beat. A high % of fish been caught are seal marked.”
Ladykirk
Head Ghillie Mr Matthi Viethen reports “A grilse and a salmon for the 2 first
time day rods on Monday, then we had a 4" rise for Tuesday which
unfortunately unsettled the fishing for us with 1 lost on Tuesday and
only 1 small grilse for syndicate rod on Wednesday, Thursday produced
2 grilse and liced 14lb salmon to syndicate rods and the only sea trout for the
week of 3lb to day rod, Friday another 3 fit looking grilse to
syndicate rods and Saturday, considering ideal conditions, was very quiet
with only 1 fish of 11lb to first time day rod.
Horncliffe
Head Ghillie Mr Erin Hunter reports “2 fish at the beginning of the week to the
Hastings Party – Best 7lb. 1st on a size 10 Cascade and the 2nd on
a 28gm Silver Toby”
On the
tributaries, the main beats on the Till had a quieter-week with 1 Salmon and 8
Sea Trout reported. Redscar & Upper Tindal 1 Salmon and 1 Sea Trout, Lower
Tindal 1 Sea Trout, Flodden 6 Sea Trout
Mr David
Cowan of Berwick and District Angling Association reports” Water levels on
the Whiteadder dropped steadily after a slight rise on Tuesday.
One Sea Trout banked on Monday followed by two salmon on Tuesday. Getting back to summer level again. Bigger fish should be moving in shortly. Hope for rain next week.”
One Sea Trout banked on Monday followed by two salmon on Tuesday. Getting back to summer level again. Bigger fish should be moving in shortly. Hope for rain next week.”
The week
ended with the level at Sprouston 7” and the water temperature is 58.
Looking
at the availability for the upcoming week I would suggest Milne Graden,
Ladykirk and Horncliffe beats should have a good chance of some action this
coming week.
The
forecast this coming week looks quite settled with a southerly breeze and a
chance of some rain towards the end 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 Black/Gold 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
1839 (Biggest 22lb Junction)
Sea Trout
644 (Biggest 15lb Bemersyde)
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