The Helmsdale rose to 2ft on the Salscraggie gauge and the excitement reached fever pitch but the river only managed to produce a disappointing 18 - 20 salmon for the week. The sea-trout arrived also and most took the chance to speed up the river and some of the burns but, there have been some very nice ones caught along the way. Phillip Marshall landed the biggest at 6lbs on the Association water where numerous others in the 1 - 3lbs category have been caught at night.

2 weeks on from the spate and things are not looking too good yet, only a few grilse and some sea-trout are giving moderate sport so hopefully in the next few weeks the main summer run will quickly build and July will save a rather dour season so far.

We have all the flies you need ofcourse, especially RS Baby Tds, Cascade and Willie Gunn Firetails and don't forget to have some Alistairs at the ready, we have our Baby TD Alistairs back in stock. And, we have a very special new set of summer flies available in a set or individially. New RS UV SuperStoat doubles, coneheads, hitch and micro tubes. You can see them all below....if you cannot catch summer salmon and seatrout with the stunning flies mentioned above then there is no hope!

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