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Sunday 25 March 2018

River Tweed River Report Week Ending 25th March 2018 - Tay Salmon Fly


River Tweed River Report Week Ending 25th March


For the first time this season we were greeted with some nice settled water with decent clarity, strong south westerly winds were a bit of a pain mid-week. With the better conditions, confidence was high for a decent week of catches. 40 Salmon and 5 Sea Trout, with the best fish for the week was 21lb Salmon caught on the Birgham Dub Beat.


The bulk of the weekly catch was caught below Kelso, with the water temperature remaining on the cooler side for the time of the year the springer’s continue to make slower progress upstream.

The odd fish are starting to be caught above Kelso and on Monday Rutherford got off the mark for the season with further fish from Lower Makerstoun and the Mertoun beats reported.

On the Junction, 9 fish were landed for the week with Mr Norman Kennedy, Ms Pat Leary & Ms Wendy Dawson been amongst the successful anglers on the beat. On Upper Hendersyde 5 fish were landed for the week the best been a superb 20lb fish landed by Mr Don Macalister on a Willie Gunn, Mr Patrick Behan landed his 1st ever salmon on Saturday, well done Sir hope it’s the first of many for you. On Hendersyde 6 fish were landed the best a superb 20lb fish on the fly for Mr Will Haggas. On South Wark Mr Chris Noble had a fine sea liced 7lber while Mr Spencer Tolley landed a nice wee fish from Lower North Wark on Monday and followed it up with an 8lber, the 1st of the season from the Bluestone beat on the River Whiteadder.


Upper Hendersyde Head Boatman Mr Robert Jewels reports “Better week with 3 fish to 20lbs on Tuesday then blank until Saturday with 2 unexpected fish in the dirty water, well done lads for not giving up”


Hendersyde Head Boatman Ketch reports “A challenging week weather wise, some tough windy conditions and a river unsettled with small lifts from snow melt. The rods were rewarded for their efforts though with some superb springer’s. 1 on Wednesday at 20lb and another on Friday at 19lb both on fly. We had 6 springer’s for the week, given our moral a much needed boost”


On Upper North Wark, finally we had some reasonable conditions to fish in at the start of the week. Mr Gary Derrick landed a cracking 5lb Sea Trout from the Back of the Isle on a 2” Heather Fly, while on Tuesday Mr Hugh Newton landed a lovely wee springer from the Middle Island on an inch n half black and yellow. The wind caused us a few problems mid-week and coloured water on Saturday didn’t help us add to the tally. Water conditions look decent for the start of the week so fingers crossed


Mr David Cowan secretary of Berwick and District Angling Association beat on the Whiteadder reports “Whiteadder in perfect condition for the start of the week with water level at 1ft 9 inches and in great condition. Fresh fish now running with one fish of 8lb returned from a private beat early this week”


We were notified on Tuesday evening about the tragic loss of Andrew Lee. He was a good and funny man, with a great passion for life and of course his fishing. He will be a sorely missed in the Tweed valley by many people. We would like to pass on our deepest sympathies to his family and his close friends






The week ended with the level at Sprouston 2ft 0” and the water temperature is 36.


Looking at the availability for this coming week I would recommend Lower Makerstoun and Lower Birgham beats should have a chance of a springer this week.


The forecast this coming week, Tuesday will be cloudy with occasional rain and drizzle. Staying damp overnight. Wednesday, staying mostly cloudy with further spells of rain and possibly some sleet at times. Overnight, chilly with patchy rain and sleet. On Thursday, it looks like being cloudy at times with patchy rain or sleet but a few brighter interludes.

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 any information or photo’s you would like included please get in touch with Martin on 07825334427 or info@taysalmonfly.co.uk


Most beats will be fishing various sinking density lines with poly leaders on the end at the time of year it has to be a Black and Yellow and if that fails a Yellow and Black! Copper tubes around 1.5” should be the order of the day, some anglers are choosing to fish more with Aluminium tubes and using the fly line to get down. Pattern’s I would suggest are Black and Yellow (Tosh), Posh Tosh, Gledswood Shrimp and Spring Ghillie should bring success. A wee personal favourite of mine is the Black and Yellow Samurai Shrimp at this time of year. If you like to give the spinner a go, Rapala, Toby and Devon Minnow fished nice and slow should bring results.
As always come prepared and always listen to the advice of your boatman or ghillie. If you’re needing to top up your fly box ahead of your trip please check out www.taysalmonfly.co.uk


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Season So Far catches
Total catch last week:  Salmon 40 Sea Trout 5
Total caught so far this season: 117 Salmon and 21 Sea Trout


As reported on Fishtweed:-
(Biggest Salmon 21lb Birgham Dub)
(Biggest Sea Trout 9lb Lower Birgham)














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