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A good finish to a very hard week with Rob Walton landing a fresh 5lb grilse in Glister on a size 13 Cascade. His father Howard Walton landed a nice fresh grilse of about 4.5lb in Cottage on a similar pattern and Mike Richardson landed a fresh grilse in Cottage Run. This coming week looks quite promising with the river running fairly big after some much needed heavy rain.

Cheers Brian

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A  fantastic week if you were a tourist with the air temperatures reaching a cosy 29C on Thursday but it did not make good fishing conditions. Last week started quite promising with the river up at 2ft 1in and I thought it would have pulled one or two fish in but the river dropped away and the water temperature jumped up to to 68f on Friday which made fishing pretty hard. Early mornings were the best chance of a fish as evening water temperatures were at there highest because of the heat of the day and although we tried everything, stripping sunrays and down to size 20's we were blank for the week but with next weeks forecast is slightly cooler so we should have a better chance of a fish.

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A slightly better week with three grilse being landed and two sea trout. Monday a fresh grilse of about 5lb was landed in Upper Salt Vats on a size 13 Park Shrimp and Wednesday a 3lb sea trout was landed in the same pool as Monday's grilse on a size 11 Junction Gunn. Thursday a sea trout was landed in Potters then Saturday two grilse were landed, one of 5lb in Upper Ferroch on a Sunray and the second of similar size in the Cottage Run on a size 8 Cascade as the light was going late on ( pic below) . The river is up an inch on yesterday, probably due to the localised thunder storms that were kicking about on Saturday. We still need some serious rain but with the clean grilse caught on Saturday its looking more encouraging for the start of this week.

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Another difficult week with bright sunshine. It was going to be early mornings and evenings that should have produced and although evenings were more popular with a fish or two being seen nothing was landed until Saturday when Ross Macdonald landed a sea liced fish of 6/7lb in the Cottage run on a small Yellow Stoat Tube. Another sea liced 9lb fish was landed in Potters on a size 13 Park Shrimp and the same fly accounted for another 9lb fish from Upper Salt Vats, although very fresh no lice (pic below). There is rain forecast for tomorrow and Wednesday which should help if its enough.

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This past week was going to be slightly more difficult with the river dropping away but not impossible. We fished all the pools with lightly dressed flies and full floaters with the odd Sunray pulled through but not a thing. We did see the odd fish or two mainly in Upper Ferroch and that was where Lee Craig landed our only fish of the week on Friday evening, a clean grilse of about 3.5lb on a small Willie Gunn variant and that was it for the week. At the moment there are some very heavy showers floating about so we might just get some fresh water for tomorrow.

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This past week was a return visit for Ghillie Lee Craig ( Carham on the Tweed ) and Colin Tait who has Ghillied on a few Tweed beats and Ghillie Glen Kedward from( Meikleour on the Tay ). The lads did not disappoint on Monday with Lee landing a cracker of 10lb from Upper Ferroch after losing one on his version of a Rusty Gunn Drainer Disc. Glen landed a lovely 8lb fish in the Cottage on a size 9 Junction Gunn. Tuesday we blanked but had a few chases on a Sunray which did not hang on and Wednesday Colin had a nice 10lb fish from Glister on a long winged Willie Gunn size 9. Thursday was a blank and also Friday but Glen saved the day on Saturday with a nice fish of 8lb from Invercannie on the same size 9 Junction Gunn. I was lucky enough to land a 3lb sea trout (picture below) in Outer Colonel on Saturday on a size 18 Teal Blue and Silver on the single handed rod, so not a bad week considering. The forecast is for cloud the next few days but no serious rain which we could do with.

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The past week started off at a good height, 1ft 10ins on Monday but it wasn't long before the temperature was hitting the mid to high twenties which did not help the fishing. Tuesday was similar but the water had dropped a few inches more. Wednesday we were lucky to get two, one from Rock Heads at 7.5lb on a size 10 Ally's shrimp, a lovely 9lb licer from Upper Salt Vat on a size 7 Cascade and a very different catch of a 3/4lb Perch in the Upper Ferroch. Thursday we blanked but not being helped by the cloudless sky and high temperatures. Friday the conditions were better with some cloud but drew a blank. Saturday things looked pretty good and a Sea Trout of 2lb was landed in Grey Mare and that was it for the week.  At the moment its heavy drizzle but there is rain forecast further west as a freshen up would help this week.

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