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April

Andrew Phillips on fire on Spey!

So the RS Stealth Spring Cascade Conehead was designed 2 years ago by Ron and has been very popular in the spring mainly due to its 1” body 2.5” hairwing. We always enjoy getting feedback on our flies and this season has been particularly interesting, yes it’s been a better spring than 2025 water wise but salmon still need to be there to bring the fishing together. We have had lots of great feedback this season already that you would have seen in our fishing reports and on Socials but for the most recent, enter Andrew Phillips. Andy is now a season ticket holder on the Aberlour water which is very pleasing on the eye and positioned nicely on the middle Spey shall we say, especially for April springers but here is the point, Andy popped on one of our RS Stealth Spring Cascade coneheads a few days ago and has netted 4 superb fresh springers, one last week and 3 on the bounce this week in the evenings after work, that’s pretty fabulous results these days in anybodies book. Below are pics of the full range of the exact fly now available in smaller sizes and on Patriot doubles for the first time, well if they work so well in spring we are betting that summer salmon might be quite keen on hitting them too! Well done Andy and thank you for the reel & pic, looks like you might just have an exceptional season brewing.

Martin Kennedy has also been putting out RS UV Pearly Kitchen Sink ( Collobus range )  to good use too with another fine fish on our flies this time from Ballindalloch on the Spey, and another pic has just arrived from Shaun Maclean who has nailed a lovely springer on our Solar Monkey, well done guys, many thanks for the news and feedback, great to see.

The Northern rivers have all had their moments with good and bad days, let’s just say there are fish on the go but with the high pressure in charge the water is going to drop significantly but that’s no problem, scale down the tackle & fly sizes and off you go.

Now if you think the latest news is encouraging, wait until next week because you are going to be clicking buttons as quickly as possible when we launch our next fly but we have to catch-up on our existing orders first before we get blitzed out of the water so to speak.

Below, Andrew with his first of 4 springers on the Aberlour water Spey last week on our RS Stealth Cascade Conehead. We have a reel from Andrew on our facebook and Instagram pages now with the rest of the fish & fly pic which I cannot get to upload on here...you can follow us on both apps if you want to keep up on there too and see the reel.

You can buy the deadly fly Andy was using right here - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/rs-stealth-cascade-conehead-pro-choice

The stunning range of RS Stealth Cascades now in smaller sizes for the first time just in time for summer.

Martin Kennedy shows off his cracking Ballindalloch fish on our RS UV Pearly Kitchen Sink Collobus Patriot double.

The deadly fly, grab some right here - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/rs-pearly-uv-kitchen-sink-colobus-range

Same fly swimming, check out the tantalising UV in the long tail.

Shaun Maclean with his lovely fresh springer

And the fly needs no introduction - the RS UV Solar Monkey which is becoming a real legend. You know where to find them!

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12

April

RS flies continue doing the business!

Unsettled conditions with high water most of last week caused a few problems for anglers far and wide but fish were still caught. Our flies continue to produce the goods with notable results for Jonny Gray with 2 beauties off the Findhorn Altyre beat early in the week both on our UV Cascade Alistair Conehead JC. Carron ghillie Finlay Maculloch also had an explosive double before breakfast landing 2 fiery fresh runners on one of our TD style Tadpole specials we tie for him, a deadly local fly in that area. And over on the Spey, Andrew Phillips got off the mark with a lovely fish in the Boat Pool Aberlour water, our Spring RS Stealth Cascade conehead was the fly.

Well done lads, we are delighted with the feedback and thank you for giving our flies a swim, keep up the good work.

The Helmsdale scored in the high teens and that man Andy Torrish was amongst the action once again with a lovely fish from beat 6 on a Black & Yellow Monkey Conehead. Pics all below.

With all the action happening this spring we are busier than ever so please order your flies well in advance to make sure you get them on time, thank you.

Click here to start ordering all your deadly flies - https://www.helmsdalecompany.com/index.php

Jonny with 2 chromers from Altyre, Findhorn on the same day.

Our deadly RS UV Cascade Alistair Conehead which helped him catch both.

One of Finlays 2 early morning fish from the Carron, Tadpole tube firmly inhaled.

His Special TD style Tadpole that we developed from the classic pattern using mobile fox in the hairwing, we think a UV version would be stunning...call to order or email. We will be putting a UV version online soon.

Andy Phillips first fish of the season from Aberlour water

His chosen fly and one of our coolest, the RS Stealth Spring Cascade which we often tie with a black extension tube which was the case on Andy's version.

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