Archive | River Tweed

River was coloured and full of leaves first thing and rose to 2′ 4″ during the morning. I left after lunch for the long drive home having not seen anything at all on the top beat. I had hoped to find a few running up the edges in the thinner water. A good tactic if […]

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.  […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Water 7″ and still very warm for the time of year, so I think oxygen content must be low and hence a reluctance to take. Certainly no shortage of fish this week. Not even a tug for any of the Fairnilee rods that I knew of before I left at 2.30 for the long drive […]

Water down to 8ins, gin clear and very mild. Learned at the hut this morning that 2 of our fishers caught fish of 11 and 25lbs last night as it was getting dark on full floating lines and tiny flies – for heavens sake, in November! Anyway well done to them. Needless to say I […]

Happy Halloween! Water ebbing away, 10″ on the Peebles gauge. Nasty downstream wind and bright sun, none of which assisted our cause. Disappointment also to see that Sunderland Hall have cut down all the trees opposite Arras’s Putt so no shade now. And, Wattie’s famous “third Poplar” tree is no longer! The Sunderland Hall rods […]