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 […]
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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 […]
River Shin, 1st September 2025
Nice day, overcast with occasional sun but none of the promised rain, just an irritating strong upstream wind. A few stale grilse seen in the river but none showed the slightest real interest in anything. We really need rain and lots of it to bring up some new fish.
31st August 2025 Lairg Lodge, River Shin
Just arrived at Lairg. Reports of spates in rivers on the west coast over the weekend, but no serious rain has reached this catchment all summer, as yet. Fortunately the Shin has compensation water from the dam and so is still fishable but it badly needs fresh water to bring the fish up. Alec reports […]
Disaster! I have had to abandon my trip to Norway.
I am really pissed off! I returned from Spain last week and was all packed and ready for my trip to Norway and the River Verdal, staying with John Olav Oldren. Then two days ago I went down with the latest Covid/man-flu/lergy – They don’t even bother to test you to say which these days. […]
Return to Norway Wk 22-29th June 2025, River Verdal
I have just booked a week at the Tingvoll Lodge on the River Verdal in the Trodelag region of Norway. Bit last minute, but John Olav Oldren, who I haven’t seen for many years, offered me an opening at what I think is a very reasonable price. A lot of rods had their fishing cancelled […]
