last week the river fished very well considering the low water conditions. With around 80 fish off, many were obviously migrating under the cover of darkness as most fish caught were sealiced. The Sunray Shadow had a great week depending on which estate you were fishing and wee Alistairs and Baby Temple Dogs also scored well. The Association water only gave up 3 for the week with Peter Macmillan (2) and returning visitor Mr Bell the lucky anglers. The sea-trout are no different this year to anything else and are later than usual, very few are showing and only a couple have been caught by salmon anglers to date. We have some superb new Sea-trout Snake flies in stock if you want to catch these fish in the darkest hours of the night. 

There is little rain on the forecast apart from a few heavy showers - we may or may not get water! Check out the low water flies below if you are fishing this week. I have some interesting news stories and flies coming soon and this section is lined up for another change in format.

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A couple of pics from my trip to Fulling Mill HQ in Kericho Kenya

Ron and FM technical director and fly-tying wizard Steve Carew with the amazing Rift Valley in the background.

A few of Ron's new Posh Willie Gunns tied at the factory.

Alistair Coneheads

Upgrading lots of dated patterns - here I have modified (top) an old Fulling Mill Flamethrower design.

 

 

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Park Shrimp

Silver Stoat

Silver Stoat conehead

Micro Willie dog conehead

 

The last two weeks provided some decent sport throughout the river with scores of 75 and 50 respectively but we are now in need of a fresh water top up. The forecast looks good with rain moving through for the rest of the week, unfortunately this may spoil the local sea-trout fishing before it even gets into gear.

Two recent first fish were caught by Mike Buttery (12lbs) and Paul Atherton (9lbs) in Roaries pool on the Association water. Both fish took Mike's new Chartreuse conehead tube aptly named the "Micky B". Borrobol Ghillie Glen Macdonald also got in on the act with a flying visit before work to see his brother Keith, Glen promptly landed a 12 pounder from the Sewerage pool. Twins William & Alistair are also still catching with William landing 4 in the last two weeks. All in all the Association water is fishing fairly well as expected with the low water conditions.

Keith Macdonald shows off Brother Glen's salmon with Roaries pool in the background.

Mick Buttery below with his well earned first fish of the season at 12lbs! 

Paul Atherton and his first fish at 9lbs