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February

Andy does it again, first and second fish off the river.

Andy Sutherland has once again landed the first fish of the season and it was caught on the Association water on the 10th of Feb Tuesday, a lovely fresh 9 pounder from the tailof the Flat pool, but, he went one better by landing the second fish of the season too from beat 1 Johns pool yesterday (14th) at 10lbs. A great start to the season for Andy. A Posh monkey tube with FL orange conehead did the trick for both and it shows that there are now definitely lovely fresh fish entering the river.

The Spey had 2 nice fish off on opening day (Wed 11th) both coming from the middle Spey area of Aberlour and there are more showing up on other rivers too since water levels are starting to settle. All in all it’s an encouraging sign and lots of anglers are getting out on the water, how do we know this? We are mega busy with fly orders! But there is always room for more as there is a long season ahead.

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The star man himself with another first fish off the river.

Second cracking fish from Johns Pool beat 1

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February

Some nice springers around! more stunning RS flies.

The Helmsdale is still blank but there are very few rods out. There will now be fish in the system for sure and it is only a matter of time before the first one is caught.

There is no shortage of water this year and as things start to settle from flooding to fishing levels there have been some lovely fresh springers caught around the UK. The biggest by the look of it was a thumper from the river Avon which looked easily over 20lbs and there has been a sprinkling off the Tay, Dee and Tweed so we should all be encouraged by this.

We have been very busy on the vice this year so far which is also encouraging as anglers get theis fly selections ready for the season ahead. It is much appreciated repeat business from our regular customers and always some new customers as they come across our flies online somewhere. We believe in quality and constant fly development so anglers can rely on our flies lasting the pace and always getting refined along with superb new patterns being added regularly, just like the 2 beauties below.

There are 2 flies which are very similar and also very popular on the Spey, the Oyster Catcher and the Kitchen Sink. We have blended both and added UV and black Colobus Monkey to the hairwing as well as the very popular pearly body which has had some explosive sport recently via the deadly Pearly Allys Shrimp. It is new and now available and called the RS Pearly UV Kitchen Sink ( Colobus range ) we have lots of mid to short colobus and will be using it in more upgraded flies this season. See it below.

Another updated pattern is our Black & Yellow Spring Cascade which caught the first spring salmon on the river Spey last year for Gordon Tait fishing at Orton, it was the conehead version that did the trick that day and we have now added a copper tube model with a bit more weight which you can also see below.

The RS Pearly UV Kitchen Sink. Available to buy right here here - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/index.php

The RS Black & Yellow Spring Cascade ( copper tube ) Available to buy here - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/rs-black/yellow-spring-cascade-jc

Dont forget we also have these great 8ft sinking Poly-tips from Airflo at only 7.99. These are a very nice length and crucial to get your fly down in various depths and temps of water all through spring. Grab some right here if you want to be fully equipped for all conditions - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/airflo-salmon-polyleader-8ft