14/08/2007

Another good week on the Helmsdale Association water recorded around 25 sea-liced fish last week. The week began with a wash-out spate on Monday but that was soon forgotten as Tuesday provided 5 fish and Wednesday 7, sport continued for the rest of the week with great water holding. Most patterns were working so long as they were quite big and bright especially at the start of the week - Coneheads in particular and my new Tungsten's were fishing great - all over the North.

I will be uploading some tied tungsten tubes this week on www.helmsdalecompany.com so get your supply quick as demand is very high for this new product. I will also have new coneheads available this week. We have our highland games this Saturday 18th and a big attraction will be the North of Scotland Open fly casting championships. This year we are very lucky to have 4 special salmon rods from the Carron rod & case company, Carron rods and lines need no introduction as they hold the recently set world record casting distance by Gordon Armstrong and we have the 17"11 competition model set up and ready for our Salmon distance competition - 3 other carron rods will be on demo for you to try in sizes 16 - 15 - 14ft. Carron lines & accessories will be part of the prizes too, trout distance and accuracy casting will also be running. I will have a large selection of my flies on display also in the casting arena + destination selection boxes.

The weather forecast is good for Saturday so come along and try out the Carron rods and lines, they really are the best!
I look forward to seeing you there.

Tight lines

Ron