July 2010
Quite a lot of Sea Trout have arrived into the system with fish upto 12lb being taken on the Ladykirk beats which is a great value for money river if you only want to catch big Sea Trout. Salmon numbers in the Tweed are very low with only small runs coming in with each tide, small flies are the favourites at present with most people fishing size 12 or 14 patterns.
Tweed current conditions (updated weekly)
Water temp is hovering around 50 deg, clarity is very good so fish are quite easily spooked, wading is unnessesary on most beats as levels are now down to summer levels. The algie bloom is just starting to have an efect on the water clarity and we need a good flood just to refresh the river and disperse the algie.
Specialist Fly Tying
I employ 2 private fly tiers, Alex Griffin based in Ayrshire and Tom Davis who works as a guillie on the Lower Birgham beat on Tweed. Both men are specialists in different fields Alex has fished most of the rivers on the West coast of Scotland as well as many river systems in Ireland, his flies are fairly lightly dressed and suit the smaller spate rivers. Although his new range of coneheads are truly brilliant. I now have a good stock of flies by Alex and if you phone 01289382260 I can give advice to some of his new scandinavian patterns.
Tom Davis has worked on the river Tweed for many years and ties some brillint patterns not found anywhere else, Tom ties solely for tweedsalmonfly and I have had great success with several of Tom's patterns, one of his latest creations is a Junction Shrimp with the jungle cock eyes painted flurecent orange which works realy well when the river has a little colour. Custom tied flies from both men are available on request.
Advice is only a phone call away, Tues - Sat tel 01289382260
After hours Tel 01289382250
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