2011 Season
What an unusual year on the Tweed, a good spring run followed by the best summer season on record which tailed off very rapidly in September and by mid October the majority of fish were starting to spawn even in the lower streches of the river. Guilies had a terrible time throughout November with virtually all catches being made up with stail fish or early kelts.
Tight lines and a Merry Christmas
Tweed current conditions (updated weekly)
WE need some huge floods through the winter closed season to wash the kelts out of the river, the hard winter last year was realy good for the river and destryed lots of the weed beds in the lower river.
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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