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We started the week off with the river sitting at 11 inches on the Cairnton gauge and a hard frost in the morning but things quickly warmed up and what fish were there seemed to be a little bit more active. We managaed 1 fish from the Outer Colonel on Monday on a Red Francis tube and a Sea Trout from Invercannie on Wednesday, albeit 2 or 3 fish were hooked but lost. With the forecast for rain on Thursday evening and weather warnings in force we got the rise in water on Friday morning that we were not really needing as it rose to over 8 feet on the Cairnton gauge (picture below taken at 7 1/2 feet on the rise). Saturday it dropped back to 5 1/2 feet and was crystal clear which should have given us a reasonable chance with 1 or 2 seen but nothing taken. Maybe Monday will be a good finale.

Cheers Brian

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The river was sitting at 1ft 6in on Monday morning and within 5 minutes one of the rods had a fish of 12lbs from the Cottage which usually is the kiss of death (getting the fish so early), as it turned out it was, as we only managed 3 for the week. It was not without lack of effort however as we had a Swedish party who fished it very hard and one regular Cairnton rod who knows the water extremely well. He has been fishing the beat for years and could not understand why we were not catching more. The biggest fish of the week, 16lbs, was a lovely cock fish in it's autumn colours, caught by Mattias Helde in the Grey Mare (pictured below with his friend, Swedish casting champion Tellis Katsogiannos). With high pressure sitting on us and with the chance of a few frosts it will hopefully get them switched on.

Cheers Brian

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On Monday the river was at 3 inches on the Cairnton gauge. On Tuesday we got the water we were needing badly with overnight terrential rain. The river was 6 inches and rising quickly and by 5pm it was sitting at 7ft. By Wednesday it had dropped down to 4ft and was still carrying a little peat stain but not impossible. Fish were showing but we couldn't connect. Thursday conditions were near perfect with the river sitting at 2ft 4 inches but again we could not connect. Friday we managed to get one from the Grey Mare, a 12lb coloured cock fish. On Saturday we got a beautiful sea liced 12lber from the Cottage caught by Trevor Telling (pictured below).

Cheers Brian

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This week on Cairnton was quite hard going again. We have not had any significant rain for sometime now although we had a slight rise mid week of a few inches. We have also had a few hard frosts which would normally get a few of the old cock fish on the take at this time of year. However we did manage to land 2 salmon, 4 grilse and 1 sea trout this week which brought the total amount of fish caught this season so far to 201 salmon and grilse. John Marshall started the weeks catch off with a 16lber from the Grey Mare, quickly followed by David Cowie, who was a guest of John Marshall, with a 6lb autumn cock fish from the Grey Mare (pictured below). Hopefully the weather forecast is correct this week with the promise of midweek rain, which we need very badly.

Cheers Brian

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With very bright sunshine most of the week, a strong westerly wind and the river sitting at 6 inches every day it didn’t give us the best chances but we did manage to get one on Thursday morning from the Rock Heads, Alex Mason caught a fresh 6lb grilse (pictured below) which was safely returned. We need rain to stir things up. Hopefully it will come soon.

Cheers Brian

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The week started off really well with the water sitting at 1ft 4in. We landed 2 on Monday from the Grey Mare. It was Wednesday before we caught another from Garden Run. Fishing conditions were extremely hard with bright sunshine every day and surprisingly early morning and evenings did not produce the goods. Hope we get rain soon.

Cheers Brian

The Cairnton gauge this morning at 7 inches and looking downstream from Glisters.

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A regular party of scandinavian anglers arrived to what turned out to be the second best week of the year to date. At the start of the week they were catching fish on Blue Charms but by the end of the week with the river rising they had to adapt to bigger flies and it paid off with them landing 16 for the week, the biggest being 17lb from Middle Ferrochs. The forecast for the coming week is dry with high pressure dominating which may not bode well for us.

Cheers Brian