End Of The Season

House Pool In Winter

Arrived up in Scotland for the last 3 days of the salmon season on the River Nith, staying again at Friars Carse Hotel. Forecast was relatively mild and the chance of an odd shower but nothing really much. Fairly bright when we arrived as you ca see from the photo but this soon clouded over.

River was a little bit low and very clear, water temp was 5 degrees C, Air Temp 7 so not too bad for the time of year.

Greedy Fish

Started fishing at the top of the beat and gradually worked our way down to the top of the Riding Stones, always expecting to feel the pull of a fish but nothing came. Mat managed to get a tug on the fly in the Shank which turned out to be one very greedy fish when you consider the size of fly against the size of the fish, still it was a fish.




We fished hard all day with just a few quick pulls that we put down to the trout or grayling. Saw quite a few salmon some coloured others fresh and one nice 15lb fresh fish that was landed by on of the other anglers fishing.

Friday saw a slight rise in the river after some overnight rain and more fish were seen along the beat but not caught. A few nice grayling came to the fly which was nice but not what we were after - yet anyway.

Saturday, last day of the salmon season and the prize at stake was the name on the end of season cup, it was just a pity that someone forgot to tell the salmon to turn up. Fish were seen throughout the beat but none were in the mood for taking so it was another blank, but then that's fishing.

Sunday and time to go grayling fishing, at least these lovely ladies were in the mood to play and some good condition fish came to the net.


So that brought an end to the fishing at Friars Carse for 2013, back in 2014 for more grayling, sea trout and salmon.





The Friars Carse Hotel are running a Winter Grayling Competition on the 1st march 2014 check out there web site for further details.

Tight Lines

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