Not many highlights on the fishing front apart from the fact that some rivers are fishing quite well due to some fresh fish still hitting the system like Ness, Spey and Tay. I also hear that the Nith, Towy and Tyne are fishing pretty good too. Most of the Highland rivers would still benefit from more water and some proper spates to get them fully charged again.

However, on the fly front, one or two flies are standing out for us at the moment. Our new range of Baby Tds are selling like hot cakes with the added option of buying with trebles, doubles and single tube hooks to suit, anglers are really taking advantage of the choice of hook with each fly, you can ofcourse purchase these little beauties without a hook.

The RS Red Alistair seems to be getting better as the season goes on which is no surprise, red/black always scores well as the water cools and Simon Mellard proved this fishing the Tyne last week at Bywell. He was part of a 5 rod party who caught 20 fish for the week between them. Simon grassed 11 of the 20 fish to his own rod and 10 came to our Red Alistair conehead pictured below. A great result for Simon and another stunning example of the power of the Red Alistair.

We currently have tubes for sale on plastic and copper and will soon add the exact conehead version that was so successful for Simon on the Tyne.

Simon with one of his Tyne fish on the red Alistair.

Simons deadly Conehead Baxters Babe Red Alistair, still in decent shape after doing battle with many fish!