Bruce Hamilton landed the season’s first fish on Monday 20th May from Kirkhill. This was a 10lb sea-liced fish which was quickly unhooked and returned. Bruce also had the honour of the first one in 2011, two days earlier if I remember correctly. No other fish have been reported despite many rods out in the

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The water levels for the first week of Oct could only be described as perfect. Showers throughout the week kept it topped up, and yes some days had it creeping up but even though it can unsettle the fish, one would of thought given these conditions catches would surely improve. Not so, in fact it

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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

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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

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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,

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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

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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

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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

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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

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