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27

February

The Springers are in with 4 off this week

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The Helmsdale has had a good week as the springers have arrived with 4 lovely bars of silver off the river. Most of the bigger rivers have been struggling with contunued massive snow melt but the Helmsdale has been fining down to a great height all week and local anglers have been taking full advantage.

A beautiful Upper Torrish springer for Andy Sutherland (below) taken on the Golden Angel tubefly which is a mix between an Alistair and Garry Dog. Andy caught his biggest ever salmon (30.5lbs) on a Garry Dog tube on the Spey at Arndilly a few years ago so colours he likes and so do the fish! A mix of orange & yellow bucktail has always worked well in the spring, add a sparse outer layer of black and you have the fabled Willie Gunn which is the "go to" tubefly for many in clear spring water.


A full range of classic coppertube RS design Willie Gunn Special from 2" to 1/2". You must grab a few of these for your box!

Deadly RS Coneheads from raking 6" to tiny 0.25" covering all options, you know you need them!!

The first fish was hooked and landed by (Borrobol ghillie) Glen Macdonald in Lower Caen beat 1, No 2 quickly followed by (guess who!?) Andy Sutherland the next day on Upper Torrish beat 3. Ronnie Ploughman grassed another classic springer in the Tail of the Bay pool beat 3 again and the week was perfectly rounded off by Alistair Jappy another local expert netting yet another bar of silver perfection on beat 4 Stoney Point on an Alistair TigerTail. All fish were estimated at around 9 - 10lbs

Alistairs fish from Stoney Point and the deadly RS design fly below.

The RS Alistair TigerTail tube ( we have loads! ) and you can buy them on the website with all our other RS killers.

Prospects are looking very good for the week ahead on all rivers as a high pressure is set to dominate the weather and settle things down.

It is a pity that travel is still so restricted for angling and everything else for that matter but it is more important at this stage in the Pandemic that we still take the greatest care and caution in every aspect of our lives and get this measured lockdown exit right. Our own health is more important than fish right now. It is tough to sit it out, but, I can tell you that we have never sold so much fly tying materials for spare time flytying and if this year is anything like last there will be an explosion of hungry anglers on waters all over Europe soon as restrictions begin to ease.

So, on that basis we are continuing with our popular 3 + 1 deal on all salmon flies and I will be adding another short video soon showing you a few more of our deadly offerings. It is a great time to freshen up your salmon fly boxes with sparkling new flies. Don't forget to throw out old nylon and grab some Gaelforce sinking tips which are super handy until things warm up. If you really want to spoil yourself I would hugely recommend a Gaelforce floating line in Spey or shooting head to really get you going. Carron Jetstream are also very popular and both will get you launching very long lines across the water in no time.

Take care, stay safe and I hope you get on a river somewhere very soon.

21

February

3 of our best flies

Ron talks you through 3 of our best spring flies (click on the link below)

https://youtu.be/VC3bU21rvLE

The first fish was caught on the Helmsdale by Kildonan ghillie Glen Macdonald at 9lbs from beat 1 Lower Caen and a nice first fish off the Thurso caught by Hugo Ross at 11lbs

14

February

Thaw on the way!

Hopefully things will ease on the ice grip this week and rods will get on the water after a long spell of freeze out. The weather forecast is showing much warmer temps and rivers may be high initially but things will start moving. Hopefully anglers will have a little more room for manoeuvre too.

We still have our 3 + 1 deal on all salmon flies running to get your flyboxes refreshed a little.

Funilly enough anglers are buying all sorts especially spring flies bit these little beauties are moving too...our deadly summer RS Cascade Alistair invented by Ron a few years ago.

Please put code 3 + 1 in our comments section when ordering.

5

February

Spring 3 + 1 deal on salmon flies

Fresh springers are now being caught on the Dee and Tweed. Gavin Brown got his season off to a stunning start by netting 3 lovely fish on the fly from the Junction pool, the fly was tied using synthetic JC so I think that tells us that Natural JC versus Synthetic can be put to bed!

The Helmsdale is still quiet but angling pressure is very low. But, we are now running a spring 3 + 1 deal on our salmon flies. If you buy 3 you get 1 free unless your order is ober £100, then you qualify for our very special 2 + 1 deal. please put either 3 + 1 or 2 + 1 in the comments section when ordering to secure your superb fly deal.

3 of our best below - RS Blue Ass willie Gunn, RS Black & Yellow feeler & RS Willie Gunn Special.

Start your shopping for free flies right here - http://www.helmsdalecompany.com/latest-flies-in.html

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