River down to 1ft 5ins on Caputh gauge. Overcast and strong downstream wind making casting on some of the pools tricky. Nothing from the Upper Water but on Stenton fishing in Tony’s boat, just before lunch Cecil D landed a fresh fish of 8lbs. Then, just as soon as they got the boat back out, he immediately […]
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Murthly Castle on Tay 4th April 2017
Water 1ft 9in yesterday fining down to 1ft 6ins today and just coming to the right height where we will start to hold fish. Several fish seen today and we had three encounters, two from Donald’s boat on the lower water and one from Tony’s boat on the upper water. Possibly running fish still moving […]
Dalmarnock 1st April 2017
The river level held stubbornly at 3ft on the gauge for the day, dropping barely an inch by close. Frustrated by the awkward height Colin put the boats out for a harl on our last afternoon to see if we could get someone into a fish and he hooked what he reckoned was a big […]
Dalmarnock Tay 31st March 2017
Water rising all day on heaving rain last night and this morning. 3ft on Colin’s gauge as we left and still rising. Several more fish seen going through but they aren’t stopping for anything. Oh bother…. or words to that effect.
Dalmarnock 30th March 2017
Basic course with 6 novices and 3 more experienced rods so not a great deal of water coverage on the first day. But with the River at 2’5″ on Dalmarnock gauge after fairly heavy rain yesterday, it is still a little too high to stop fish running straight through. Fishing conditions were good with a slight upstream […]
2017 Basic Salmon Fishing & Spey Casting Course
I have now confirmed the dates of my next Salmon Fishing & Spey Casting Course being 30th March to 1st April 2017 at Dalmarnock Water on the Tay. For more details, please click here to go to my venues page for more details about the beat https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/venues/river-tay/ details about the course https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/courses/salmon-fishing/basic/ And to book https://www.michaelevans.co.uk/shop/courses-fishing/river-tay/3-day-salmon-fishing-course-dalmarnock-30th-march-2017/ Otherwise please […]
David Monk checks out…
I am very sad to have to report that David Monk finally passed away yesterday (19th June) at the age of 94. David will be well known to many of my fishing friends and pupils as he was a regular at Upper Caberston and my Murthly Castle Scottish salmon courses and came on many of my overseas trips. […]
Tay week of 2nd May 2016 – ends on a bonanza!
As previously reported, the first couple of days of the week were spoiled by a lift in water to nearly 4ft but as the river dropped as the week went on, so our chances improved. Saturday ended our week with a veritable bonanza, after I had had to leave early in the morning to drive south for […]
Tay 6th May 2016 – 2 more today
Water steady at 1ft 7ins and clear. Good height for the Lower Water but strangely we did not see many fish today. Maybe the sun had something to do with it, because the success story of the day was Derek C who was fishing in the shade down by the Bargee stone and in a […]
Tay 5th May 2016 – 2 today
Water still dropping slowly, around 1ft 8ins on the Caputh gauge and clear. We had a run of fish come through us at about 12 noon and we (well ok, I…) managed to stop one from the right bank of the Tronach, a sea-liced 7 pounder and one from the left bank just after lunch […]
