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The past week started off with the height at minus 1 on Cairnton gauge so the weather warnings for rain and gales last Sunday didn't materialise but we are getting used to the prolonged low water now. Monday we got off to quite a good start with a 3.5lb grilse from the Spout on a small Red Francis and a 2lb sea trout from Upper Ferroch on the same pattern, then it was quiet for the rest of the week until Saturday when a good fish was lost in Potters but it was encouraging to get a 4inch rise on Thursday and it seemed to waken things up elsewhere but unfortunately not for us but the height at the moment on Cairnton gauge is 6ins so maybe tomorrow.

Cheers Brian

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Another difficult week with the river dropping back to 0ins on Cairnton gauge on Monday after the slight rise last Sunday and I thought it might have wakened up the odd resident that's lying about but again the good weather continues and that's what is against us but Sam Langhead did manage to land a 9lb fish in Upper Ferroch on Tuesday on a small Red Francis and another four lost, that was it for the week. We have weather warnings for most of the country today but at the moment its lovely so maybe it'll come in later.

Cheers Brian

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A very quiet week on Cairnton with the water height sitting at roughly -4ins every day and bright sunshine it felt like July again but the difference was a cooler water temperature which I thought might have livened things up but we had to settle for one fish for the week, a 12 lb slightly coloured fish from Upper Ferroch on a size 12 Silver Stoat. Another couple were lost through the week but that was our lot but things could be looking up as the height on Cairnton gauge this morning was 3ins but until we get a proper rise its going to be a quiet Autumn.

Cheers Brian

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This week we had a very good party of Danish anglers who have fished Cairnton a long number of years and are very keen on traditional salmon patterns or I should say one pattern the Blue Charm which they all fish on various sizes and very lightly dressed. In previous years they have done this with great success but this year it was going to be a lot more testing with the low water but they seemed to have the measure of things and I think they did very well to land 5 grilse and connect with one or two more over the week considering the conditions. The water height on Monday was at 1ins but a 5lb grilse was landed in Cottage Run on a size 12 Blue Charm. Tuesday a 5lb grilse from Upper Ferroch, a 4.5lb grilse from the Spout & a 5lb grilse from Middle Salt Vat. Thursday a 5.5lb grilse from Upper Ferroch all on Blue Charms. Considering the bright sunshine every day & by Saturday the height -3ins I'd say a pretty good week.

Cheers Brian

1. Looking downstream from the top hut.

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The week started off with the weather forecast being correct for a change so with bright sunshine things looking difficult but a 2lb sea trout was landed in the Spout almost first thing. Tuesday a grilse of 3.5lb was landed in Upper Ferroch & an 8lb fish in Cottage Run. Wednesday a 4lb grilse was landed in Invercannie in almost grey dark. Thursday we had a grilse from Grey Mare & 1 from the Spout that was liced. With rain most of the day I was happy to see the river rising on Friday morning to 1ft 2ins on our gauge and there were 2 grilse landed, one from Cottage and one from Garden Run. Saturday the height was 3ins and I was surprised we blanked with a few fish being seen in Glister & Grey Mare but they didn't want to know. Flies that did the job this week were small Stoats and Posh Tosh's to 3ins Sunrays. If next weeks as good I'll be happy.

Cheers Brian

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Well we got off to quite a good start on Monday morning with a 3lb Grilse being landed in Glister on a size 12 silver stoat & another lost, then a Grilse of 4lb was landed in Middle Salt Vat again on a silver stoat. Tuesday a Grilse of 5lb was landed in Grey Mare on a size 6 cascade and that was us for the week. The water temperature is cooling down a bit but we still need a flood to clean things out and get some fish in. The rain that was forecast yesterday didn't come to much but there is meant to be showers on and off for the coming week so maybe it might be enough.

Cheers Brian

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After the couple of rises in water we got last week I didn't think the river would have dropped away as quickly as it did but by Monday we were down to 3ins on Cairnton gauge so it was going to be quite a hard week unless we got more water. We did get an inch or so through the week but not enough to get things going however we did manage a 3lb sea trout from Upper Ferroch on Monday. Wednesday, Keith Collin's got a lovely 4lb grilse from Invercannie (pictured below) on a tiny tube of his own tying. Thursday Michael Wright landed what turned out to be our joint largest fish of the season at 16lb from Upper Ferroch (pictured below - Michael playing the fish) on a small brown turbo disk tube. So a long with that and maybe half a dozen good offers it wasn't a bad week but we need a good few days of rain before we'll get fish in any numbers.

Cheers Brian

1. 4lb Grilse, Invercannie

2. Michael Wright playing a fish in Upper Ferroch