Tweed Salmon Flies

Tweed Salmon Fly CO is based in Norham -on-Tweed and is run by David Foreman who has lived and fished the Tweed for over 35 years, he has some great contacts and can give advice on tactics and fly patterns currently being used or what you can expect to need for your trip on the Tweed or any other of the many Scottish rivers. David has also fished on several rivers in Norway most recently the Gaola where he had 4 salmon upto 26lb. For advice please ring after 6.00pm as I run another business alongside the the fishing flies.

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Black Green Highlander

As tied by Paddy Bonner Black Green Highlander

Blue Elver

As tied by Paddy Bonner - Plastic Tube: 90mm Blue Elver

Ally's Cascade

As tied by Paddy Bonner Ally's Cascade

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