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Top Water – A washout. Water rose over a foot at night under torrential rain and was chocolate brown by the time we arrived. So all went home early. A sad end to the week, with just three fish off the lower water and all taken on the harl. An identical result to last year. […]

Lower Water: River 2ft all day. Heavy snow which settled then turned to rain later in the morning driven by our usual east wind – Joy. Nothing seen all morning then at about 3pm Cecil D got a fresh fish of 8lbs in the boat on a Kynoch. I saw another in the tail of […]

Top Water: River 2ft 2ins dropping to 2ft during the day. Overcast and still the cold upstream wind. But at least we didn’t get wet. We fished hard but for no reward. Never saw or touched anything all day. Apparently they caught fish on Lower Newtyle, the next beat above us, so maybe our run […]

Lower Water: Water 1ft 10ins and just coming to a good height. Nasty squally and cold east wind making casting difficult and conditions pretty bleak. 2 fish from the boat, one 7lbs by the stone seat in the morning for Cecil D, one from the Spruces in the afternoon for Duncan R. Both sea liced. […]

UPPER WATER: Water has settled to 2ft on the Caputh gauge. Overcast with a stiff easterly breeze. Not as cold as yesterday and really quite mild at the hut and up river, but casting in the Girnals where it is exposed was not pleasant. Coming to a good height for Murthly and my crew covered […]

Water 2ft 6ins on arrival at the Lower Beat. Dropped to 2ft 2ins during the day. Baltic upstream wind and freezing hands, so casting not easy for the “Improvers”. But that’s fishing sometimes and a required skill set, so good practice. A couple of tugs on the Kynochs in the boat in the afternoon. One […]

Plagued by constant high water which never moved from 3ft 5ins on Dalmarnock gauge all day, we struggled to find much fishing let alone fish – though I definitely saw a fish twice, or several fish with two showing, moving through the summerhouse pool in the afternoon stopping for nothing. Despite Colin’s efforts even using […]

Water 2’11” on Caputh Gauge, 3′ 7″ on Dalmarnock gauge. More than 6″ up on yesterday, which we really didn’t need. Weather good, overcast and little wind. Not many places to fish at this height and so we struggled. We didn’t see any fish but at this height new fish struggle to get through the […]

Water 2ft 5ins and clear. Blustery wind but thankfully not too much rain. Basic course, so not a lot of fishing pressure whilst learning, but Eric N had a spanking 9lb fish from the neck of Dalmarnock pool on the top beat on the fly from the bank! Well done him to get our beat […]

Quick update on the Tay before I head off on Wednesday to begin my spring courses and fishing: The water has been unsettled recently which does not make fishing easy. Nevertheless there were 12 fresh fish off the system last week including a 19 pounder from Newtyle which is a beat just below Dalmarnock where […]