Week beginning 26 June 2017
Monday 26th June. Paul Grewcock, Linda Grewcock and Fliss Atherton here for three days, they’re all keen fishers so I was expecting great things. 10” and 60 degrees with an overcast sky so conditions were good enough. It wasn’t long before Paul was into action in the Back of the wall getting a 14lb fish which was fresh but not carrying any lice, Fliss wasn’t far behind him getting a 6lber from the middle stream on a #12 editor. Linda up on the cauld and slap had a couple of boils at a sunray but they weren’t keen enough to grab it. This afternoon Fliss took poll position getting a 15lb fresh fish from learmouth stream again on the editor. The forecast for tomorrow is a bit grim with heavy rain coming in from the west, it’s to start raining tonight and to continue for most of the day tomorrow, so by Wednesday it could be out of sorts.
Tuesday 27th June. Heavy rain all morning but it did nothing to dampen the effort put in by the team, but the day belonged to Paul who lost a fish at the Iron Gate this morning but stayed on for an hour tonight and was rewarded with 3 fish from the Slap, 13lb, 11lb, and 8lbs all on a 1” red frances conehead, all the fish were fresh and all safely returned. The top gauges were rising on Teviot and Ettrick but at 7.00pm the times hadn’t changed so I don’t know what’s coming; it was up an inch with us at 8.00pm. It looks like some more rain tomorrow and wet on Thursday coming in from the east so that will be a miserable day.
Wednesday 28th June. The river was up a foot this morning and had a fair bit of weed in the water column. Team Norfolk gave a run through this morning but drew a blank. A long drive home was in front of them so they pulled stumps and were away by lunchtime. Heavy rain tonight and all day tomorrow so another proper flood is on the cards. I’m away down south to see if they are still refusing to take Scottish banknotes so that’s all for this week and next week’s report will be sketchy or blank.
Thursday 29th June. Rain all night and all day today so that looks like the week is over. Andrew and Paul fished through the best bits this morning but didn’t have a pull between them. The Tweed gauges are all over the place again, always seem like that when you really need them.
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