Wet and Wetterer

Its been a few days, and very busy days at that. The River is holding a perfect height as its raining just about every day now. Also both the Rivers and main lochs are full of fresh salmon and sea trout. Quite a few fish are now being caught, and once I get the Ardtornish returns it is hoped that we may reach 15 for the week.

Meanwhile, up at Tearnait at the weekend, I took up a party of gentlefolk from Englandshire on a days outing to see how it was fishing. Above is Maisie ( note the wellies !! ) braving a force 7 westerly just prior to the heavens opening.

And this is her brother Ben - a picture of concentration as he retrieved his flies between the gusts. As you have probably guessed, it was a fairly wild day. Despite this, all had good fun, and the total basket for the few hours we fished was over 30. here's one basket, the biggest about 1.5lb

The biggest of these fish was not actually caught from Tearnait, but in the very small pool as the River Rannoch leaved the loch. Butchers and Soldier Palmers were the flies of the day, but Ben caught most of this basket on a red bodied mini muddler.

meanwhile, back to the River. Cameron and I went out on Sat to fish the Top beat. Quiet to start with, but once I worked out that the fish were in the margins due to relatively high water, we started to have some success. 2 lovely grilse for the afternoon - both returned quickly.

Here's Cameron at the top of Folly Pool casting well, but with no luck yet - wont be long though as he has fairly come on.

Finally, I took some of the party who were at Tearnait out sea fishing on Tuesday - great fun as they got plenty of mackerel, quite a few Pollock, some ling, and a few coalies. - More than enough for the fish pie they were planning to have on Wed. Tides, not quite right for the best fishing, but with over 60 fish in total, all had fun.

I have fishers on the River tonight, and on Arienas tomorrow. With luck I will manage out myself on Sat so will speak soon.