As I type this report (Sept 30th) the river is sitting at 6ft on the marker at Colmonell. The forecast for the coming week remains unsettled. That is just music to the ears of the anglers who have just arrived for their long awaited, weeks fishing. I can’t help feeling this has been part of […]

The week ending 22nd September was challenging to say the least. The water was on the low side at the start of the week, but the showers soon lifted it to a nice level by mid-week, followed by heavy rain on Thursday afternoon. This had it at 4ft and clearing by Friday morning. At Ballantrae […]

First week of September the water had dropped away slightly and this reflected on the catches. Roger Pirie returned a very coloured fish around 9lbs on Tues 4th. Balnowlart had 4 on Fri 7t Knockdolian had 7 for the week. The following week saw better conditions with Ballantrae landing 8 for the week. Steven Holiday, […]

August has been another month of continuous water with a number of good spates, one of which reached 9ft at Colmonell on Monday 27th.  The whole month has seen water levels, which allows fish to run the river as they please.  This results in no build up of fish in the tidal reaches and is […]

Down at Ballantrae Bridge, Robin Mulholland’s party have had thirteen so far with a good few more lost. Balnowlart has fished well and as of Tuesday had ten; two for Andy Ewing, best 9lb.  Two for Stuart Lang, both grilse.  One for Kenny Gibson and one for Hugh McLatchie.  I went down late afternoon and […]

On Monday 6th Aug after torrential rain the river was hit by flash flooding rising to around 7.5ft – this coincided with high pressure moving in and the arrival of a substantial number of grilse. Rods out on Tuesday had some bumper catches!  Some rods were left very frustrated that they couldn’t keep a hold […]

Over the last 2 weeks of July there hasn’t been many big lifts in the water levels, just a few small freshets with the only decent rise on Wednesday 25th July when it reached 3.6 on the bridge at Colmonell. At Ballantrae Bridge, Kenneth Hyslop and Robert Dalrymple had beauties of 15lb and 14lbs and […]

The following week beginning July 2nd Kenneth Hyslop a member of the Ballantrae Bridge syndicate landed a 9lb fish from Jean’s. Another member, David Mc Illwraith had one around 10lbs from McKenna on Sat 7th Balnowlart is having a lean time with the fish not stopping. I had a fish of 7.5lbs on Sat and […]

The water dropped away until rain on Fri 29th  had it back up to 6ft on Fri night. Sat morning it was 3’8’’ at Colmonell Bridge and it wasn’t long before the reports of fish caught were flying about via text messages. This is a perfect height for the Club water and Sandy Wilson had […]

After the deluge at the weekend the river rose to the biggest flood for a good few years. Anglers were out in force first thing Monday morning and the catches were as follows; Wm Marshall 14lb Kirkholm, Colmonell Angling Club had three, 11lb, 14lb and 6lb for Sandy Wilson, Gary Burdon and another respectively. Up […]