Cold, wet and fishless. River rose gradually all day to 1’4″ on the Peebles gauge and coloured up with lots of leaves. More heavy rain after lunch added to the fun making me wet on the outside to add to both boots full on the inside. My overnight gluing clearly failed to seal the leaks. […]
Author Archive | Michael Evans
Traquair, Tweed 30th October 2025
River now 7″ on Peebles gauge. A bitter cold north east wind blowing upstream and making casting hard work. I saw several fish move in the Mound first thing, but they would look at nothing. I had a half-hearted tug in the meetings whilst chatting to Rufus, but it didn’t stick. Then fished the entire […]
Fairnilee, Tweed 29th October 2025
The luck of the Irish! Water holding at 9″ on the Peebles gauge. A better day with less wind. Overnight a run of fish came into the Rae Wheel and below. The two Irish lads had 5 salmon and two sea trout from there and Black Strand below. Well done to them. Eric L then […]
Fairnilee, Tweed 28th October 2025
Water 10″ on Peebles gauge a rise of 4″ during the day. Very blustery wind and squally showers bringing lots of leaves! But the rise of water did move a few fish which was helpful. They were still few and far between but the Irish lads had 3 on and lost before they got one […]
Fairnilee, Tweed 27th October 2025
Water 6″ on the Peebles gauge up 2″ from yesterday when we arrived – Yeah! Blazing sun and a cold wind to add to our prospects. To be fair, I had a good pull in the Neidpath in the morning and had a fish on for about 45 seconds in Russells Rock twitching a light […]
Tweed upon arrival 26th October 2025
Water is 4″ on Peebles gauge, it has not moved significantly since the beginning of October when they had a 2′ 6″ lift for one day. Promising rain belts have swept the country but all have missed the borders and despite encouraging rain as we came over the top on the A7 on the drive […]
Castle Grant 3 River Spey 6th September 2025
Another perfect fishing day but with the low water the Spey has had for weeks and weeks. Lots of stale fish in Pollwick and just the odd stale grilse jumping elsewhere if you put a fly over it. With fantastic encouragement by Simon, we put big flies, micro flies, skated flies and anything else we […]
River Spey, Castle Grant 3. 5th September 2025
The Spey, like all Scottish rivers is still desperate for water. SEPA have even stopped all extraction because of the drought! None the less it was a joy to come to Castle Grant 3 and meet Simon Crozier again after nearly 30 years, on this magical beat. As ever this year, tales of stale fish […]
River Shin, 3rd September 2025
The much promised heavy rain today turned out to be a quick shower. Typical. Nothing this morning from lower beat but this afternoon I managed to suitably annoy a stale grilse of about 5lbs in Cottages 4. At least it was one more for the book in a very tough season. I don’t know if […]
River Shin, 2nd September 2025
Still none of the promised rain. I really wonder if the Met Office do little more than look out of the window and post the current conditions. So still hard work and no sign of any new fish reaching us. Despite that, I did manage to winkle out a hen fish of about 11lbs from […]
