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This past week started off looking quite promising with the height at 1ft 4ins which suited most of the pools but it was Wednesday before we connected with anything which resulted in two Grilse being lost, one in the Cottage and one in the Long Jetty. Thursday was a blank albeit we did see one or two fish. Friday we saw quite a few fish in the morning when the river was sitting at 1ft 1ins which were probably getting the smell of the water that was to follow, going up to 9ft by 5pm but we managed a lovely long tailed liced Grilse on a size 11 Park Shrimp before the rise got underway. Saturday was looking really good with height sitting at 4ft 1in on Cairnton gauge, and although we did see a few fish they weren't interested.

Prospects for the coming week look favourable after the flood on Friday and the river dropping to a really nice fishable height.

Cheers Brian

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This past week looked fairly good for a fish or two with conditions quite favourable each day apart from Tuesday afternoon when thunder and lightning stopped play but I was happy with three fish for the week. Graham Reid landed a nice 7lb fish in Upper Ferroch, Cairnton bank, on Tuesday on a size 10 Cascade and on Thursday Alex Buchan from Sydney(Australia) landed a lovely fish of about 8lb in the Cottage, also on Cairnton bank, on a size 6 Cascade then on Saturday Andy Ashcroft landed a lovely liced Grilse of about 5lb in the Rockheads on a size 12 Ally's Shrimp on our Middle Blackhall bank.

Prospects for the rest of July should be good with the expected influx of Grilse to liven things up.

We have also started the grass/bank cutting and should hopefully have this finished in a couple of weeks.

Cheers Brian

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This week we had a party of regular fishers from Middle Blackhall, however this year they fancied a change and decided to stay and fish with us from the Cairnton side. Monday was looking very promising as the river had risen 10 inches overnight and was sitting at 1ft 8in on Cairnton gauge and running slightly peaty and although Mr & Mrs Tetley from Cornwall put in a very good early morning session nothing was landed however I did see an Osprey take a lovely fresh Sea Trout from the Colonel. The forecast for the next few days was to be very warm, with the odd thunderstorm, so early morning and evenings was going to be the best approach to adopt which the party did each day but only a couple of fish were hooked and lost through the week in the early mornings until Saturday which turned out to be the nicest of conditions for fishing, ie steady rain and lower temperature when Sarah Tetley, aka Mrs Saturday as she always lands a fish on a Saturday, hooked and landed a lovely 7lb fish in the Upper Ferrochs on a Triton Shrimp of her own tying. Thank goodness for Mrs Saturday as she saved the week.

Prospects for the coming week after a good rise over night and sitting at 2ft 5in today on the Cairnton gauge are promising and the forecast is looking good.

Cheers Brian

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Last week got off to a really good start with regular Cairnton rod, Colin Tait, landing a 9lb fresh fish in the Rock Heads and a 7lb sea liced fish in the Cottage. Both were on a size 12 Editor. Colin was wearing his Go-Pro camera at the time and you can view his 2 videos catching the fish by clicking on the following links.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfZz_7-QGkc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KLWF0wv3W2o

Tuesday was a bit of a red letter day on the Sea Trout front with 6 being landed upto 3lbs. All were fresh and some sea liced and all caught on a variety of flies between 4 inched Sun Ray Shadows down to size 14 Stoat Tails. A few more were also lost. Wednesday seemed to be another day for the Seat Trout with 4 being landed to 3lbs, again on similar flies to the previous day. The latter half of the week seemed to be a bit quieter with just one Sea Trout being landed on Thursday and a couple of Seat Trout and Salmon being lost. So all in all not a bad week with 2 Salmon and 11 Sea Trout being landed.

Prospects for the coming week look not bad with the river sitting at 10 inches today with high pressure dominating the coming week so the early mornings and evenings will more than likely give the best chance.

Cheers Brian

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Last week saw the return of the Festing family and friends back to Cairnton and Middle Blackhall for their annual fishing trip which will probably amount to 30+ years fishing at Cairnton with some good years and some lean. This year happened to be a quiet one on the Salmon front with a Grilse of about 3.5lb landed in Invercannie on a size 12 Arndilly for Tim Buxton. Most of the weeks sport was with the very good class of Sea trout which are around at the moment with six being landed and a similar amount lost, all between 2.5lb and 4lb and pretty much spread through out the beat. So the party left this morning very happy and looking forward to coming back next year.

The coming week is looking quite promising with some rain forecast here and there, so hopefully we get a freshen up for our returning party headed up by Lee Craig, Head Ghille from Carham on the Tweed.

Cheers Brian

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Considering last weeks drought of fish, this week got off to a great start with Callum King, under Ghillie to Bobby White at Stanley on the Tay, landing his first Dee fish on his very first visit to Deeside. The salmon weighed 7lbs and was caught in Upper Ferroch on a size 10 Cascade. Tuesday was another good day with a fish of 12lb landed in the Grey Mare and a fresh fish of 8lb landed in the Cottage as well as a 2lb seat trout which was landed in Invercannie, all of which were caught on a size 10 Executioner. Wednesday continued to be fruitful with a 7lb fish caught in the Cottage for Phillip Wood on a size 12 Executioner. We also had our first Grilse of the season, a touch over 3lb which was sea liced and caught on a size 12 Executioner also. A 2lb sea trout was also landed by John Webb on a small Executioner. The mini heat wave continued later in the week and although we were fishing late into the evenings we only managed to connect with a sea trout on Friday night which dropped off but I was more than happy with the first three days of the week.

This coming week looks to be a little cooler with the chance of the odd rain shower, so hopefully that should prove positive for our returning fishing party to Cairnton & Middle Blackhall.

Cheers Brian

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With a very experienced party of anglers on both banks for the full week and with a good rise on Tuesday to 4ft 6in I was hoping for good sport from Wednesday onwards. By Wednesday morning the river dropped back to 2ft 4in and the odd fish and sea trout were being seen but we had to settle for a 3lb sea trout in the Lower Ferrochs. Then late on Saturday we got a small fish of 7lb and a 2lb sea trout.

Cheers Brian