Week beginning 11 August 2014
Monday 11th August Normal life resumes after last week but I still need to sleep, great week and that’s the common riding season over I’m getting too old for it. Anyway 1’4” this morning and 56 degs which is more like it and its rising. Two Salmon and an 8lb Seatrout this morning, by lunchtime it was up 1’0” and everything stopped showing. The fish that were showing were mostly older fish, the wind really picked up by lunchtime and the colour was coming in to it also so that was the day over, more rain tomorrow so a bigger flood might be on the way.
Tuesday 12th August A cold wet windy start and that’s the way it remained all day, on the bright side we did catch 4 Salmon and 3 Seatrout, only one Salmon out of the four was fresh and the best came in at 18lbs from the Temple on fly. 1’11” 56 degs and a bit on the beery side. There was a good number of fish showing this morning in the tail of the Cauld with Tom Leslie getting numerous pulls and tweaks but only managing to land two but he got the two this afternoon so was a happy boy. The rain has been sitting over the catchment all day so fishing tomorrow looks unlikely.
Wednesday 13th August. 7 for the day and 4 Seatrout, water still a bit on the beery side. Tom Leslie was top dog with a 22lber from the Slap on a Sunray shadow. There were lots of other pulls and tugs mostly off Seatrout I should think as they were sharp tugs. All that and not a condom in sight.
Thursday 14th August 1’9” 58 degs still beery, Team Burgon here for the day and guess which number Trish drew? Number one of course, so she was like a ferret on speed down onto the Croy but after thrashing it for a while all we could manage was a follow on a Sunray, meanwhile hubby John was going great guns in the Cauld and had a Salmon and a Seatrout in no time, the Seatrout was so big it broke the net! Trish not to be outdone had a couple up the Temple on a Sunray plus a big splash. John fearing she might really outdo him managed another 12lber from the Cauld before lunch. The afternoon was a quiet affair, down the beat there was next to nothing showing but I did lose one in the Glide on a Sunray, I’m blaming the semi barbed double I was using. I’ve seen a photo of the river at Bemersyde tonight and it’s brown so going to be tricky tomorrow.
Friday 15th August The brown water was with us this morning and it was really brown/orange so no fishing today, 2’3” on the Lees gauge and 58 degs, it will fish tomorrow but only just, we’ll be fishing the thin water like the tail of the Cauld and the Ledges, maybe the inside of the Back of the wall and the inside lane of the Glide. The trout were rising tonight and Mark landed one about a pound and a quarter off the Slap croy once he got the hang of plopping the fly on its nose and not hooking Lucy (dug) again, I’m sure he’ll have caught a few by now but I left as Lucy was getting a bit nervous.
Saturday 16th August A very windy day 1’9” and 56 degs with very murky water, we fished all morning for a brown trout and didn’t see many fish. The afternoon was better maybe the colour was improving or was there more fish about? We finished the day with 5 which was a good score considering the conditions. Today (Sunday) it is blowing a near gale and much cooler and sometimes a gale is as good as a flood, just hope it calms down for tomorrow, Fridays red/orange water has left the river bed filthy so we still need a 8’0” flood from the top of Tweed to really sort it out
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