It's a real slow start to the season everywhere this year and only 3 fish have been caught on the Helmsdale. Kildonan rods had a fish from beat 4 and Andy Sutherland had his second of the season from Kilphedir pool beat 2 at 8lbs, other than that the fishing has been very poor. It looks like the cold weather has maybe held back the early spring run, lets hope so. Spring will ease in eventually but its not happening anytime soon.

Our new fly collection is selling fantastically well everywhere, looks like people have loads of fishing lined up this year and want to have the best flies available. SuperSquid Cascade silver conehead and Blue Ass Willie Gunn are the outstanding favourites so far, team these up with a black & yellow Monkey or two and our SuperSnaelda Cascade and you have all bases pretty much covered for catching spring salmon.

Our collection of fishing tackle is growing in Baxters Village Clothing shop with a great selection of deadly salmon flies, boxes and accessories. We have also recently added Loop S1 salmon rods, Loop Evotec reels, Gaelforce and Carron lines.

The first person to purchase one of these superb rods gets £100 of our best flies for free when they contact me....so snap one up when you have the chance, pop in, grab a coffee, the restaurant also has great food, top up with some killer salmon flies and make a visit of it. If you want to test dreve a Loop, we have demo rods available. Go on, treat yourself to some fabulous fishing gear this season and watch that line fly out like never before, we have many very satisfied Loop customers.

Baxters fishing gear gathering space