Archive | River Tweed

Scotland Tour September 5th to 27th 2023. There are times when I truly despair! 5th September we drove up to stay with Cecil D on the Spey at Grantown and fish a couple of days on Tulchan A beat with John Anderson the ghillie. We arrived at the beat to find the water level off […]

FAIRNILEE. Water remained stubbornly at 2ft 4ins all day but at least the wind dropped a little so there were slightly fewer leaves. Fewer being a relative term! However, it was refreshing, particularly in light of our chances of ever returning to Russia being almost non-existant and my missing the fun we have had with […]

FAIRNILEE Water height remained stubbornly at 2ft 6ins all day and wind causing lots of leaves did not help our cause. However, I was lucky and managed a hen fish of 12lbs from the tail of Russells Rock and a 15lb cock fish from Rae Weil. Very welcome I can assure you! On a more […]

FAIRNILEE. Great to be back on Fairnilee. I have to commend Mark Hislop the Boatman (Even with no boat, they are traditionally “boatmen” on Tweed not ghillies! Why, on the upper river I don’t know but hey ho.) The beat is just so beautifully kept and the fishing lodge in the old sawmill, quite the […]

Traquair. Water at 2ft first thing and rose to over 3ft and colored by lunchtime on heavy rain all night. I managed a brief encounter in the home pool before it went dirty. Despite the buggeration factor of the weather, we were not encouraged by just 11 fish of the whole Tweed yesterday (fishtweed) when […]

Water down to 2′ on the gauge. Still a tad high. Perfect weather, mild and overcast Just one colored cock grilse for one of our team again today from the House Pool. One or two old fish sloshing about but I think it is the usual game of waiting for new fish. Hopefully they are […]

TRAQUAIR 24th October 2022 Water 2’3″ on the gauge after heavy rain yesterday it rose to 2’6″ by lunchtime and slightly colored. Difficult height but just about fishable. One of our team had a 5lb grilse from just above the bridge RB, otherwise just a few trout. Oh, except I also caught a bright silver […]

Water was down to 2ft 6ins, just coming back to a better height… just as my week finishes. Another sea trout to at least give a tug but no fish for me. One small grilse was caught by one of the other rods but that was it for our three days on Traquair.  BTW, for […]

Water 3ft 6in down to 2ft 9ins today… frustratingly still not a good height. But at least at this height you stand a chance if a head of fish comes through. Sadly they did not. I only saw two fish all day and had a single pull from one of the old residents. That was […]

River dropped a couple of foot or so over Sunday to 3ft 7ins and still fairly coloured but fishable. Not a good height as new fish tend to run straight through and the residents are hard to get down to. But I was lucky enough to get three sea-trout one of about 3 to 4lbs […]