A Long Time No Post & Back on the Upper Tay

Time to catch up on the Blog after a time of no posts.

Been busy fishing at the end of the salmon season in 2015 and had a coloured fish of around 4lb to end the season on the River Nith, not what I was hoping for but that's fishing.

Kicked off 2016 running a residential course on the River Nith at Friars Carse Hotel, we had a great time very few fish due to the height and colour of the river but they all enjoyed it and hopefully some of them may take up the sport.

Back a couple of weeks later and had some fabulous sport with grayling, lots of fish in then 1.5 to 2lb mark then finished with an absolute cracker of over 3lb

Trips to local club waters and to Danebridge Fishery have produced some nice fish.



This last week I've been up on the mighty River Tay staying at Kenmore, fished for trout on the castle beat for a few hours on Sunday night and had a nice brownie, Tuesday I was off to fish Bolfracks Upper Beat with my son Mat, it turned out to be a fantastic day.

Met up with Tomas from Custom Tied Flies, good guy if you need any flies give him a call.
Bob McIntyre called to the beat to see us, I've known Bob for many years and could spend hours talking to him about the various beats.

Mat had the first fish of he day - a trout, then it was my turn after a couple of changes of fly I found one that worked, a super bar of silver in the shape of a 15lb spring salmon still with sea lice on it.

We saw quite a few fish coming into the pool most of which were silver. Mid way down the pool I had another arm wrenching take, the fight this time was to take a little longer but eventually Mat slid the net under my personal best salmon to date, a cracking 23.5lb beauty

And the day still wasn't done, I'd seen a fish boil a couple of times so I made a few casts in the general area then every thing went solid, all I could hear from up the bank was Mat yelling 'are you in again'. He did another fine job of netting the fish this time a smaller fish of about 11.5lbs but bright silver.

Mat was now getting fed up with netting fish for me so I suppose it was only fair that he had the last fish o the day, another fish of around the 11.5lb mark, this time to a Rapala.

So that brought then end to a perfect day, my next outing was on Thursday on the Taymouth Castle beat fishing the Chinese Pool, that again showed me the stamp of fish from this lovely piece of water.

Here's hoping the river will be as kind when I'm next back here.

Next stop the Anna Maria Island in the USA

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