Sunday 29 September 2013

200 Tay Salmon


Mr Andy Kerr landed Newtyle's 200th fish of the 2013 season, a clean 10lb fish from the Cotter.
Andy was presented with a trophy and a nice bottle of malt whisky for doing so, as beat owner Mr Gordon Mitchell does not remember in the 42 years of owning Newtyle the 200 fish count being achieved.
Well done to all the anglers who have fished the beat this year and contributed to the catch numbers....you know who you are!

11lb Tay Salmon


Mr Damian Gunn landed this fly caught fish from the Boil just before lunch on saturday

Friday 27 September 2013

Corporate Event


Newtyle hosted a corporate event today with Alba Game Fishing.
A party of 30 Dutch gents shared the fishing and consumed a few bottles of wine and vast amounts of food prepared by Stewart Collingswood.The whole outing went swimmingly and we even managed a fish.
Photo by Callum Conner.

Grilse


This wee Grilse was caught in the Boil this morning and is the 199th fish landed on Newtyle this season.

5lb Grilse


Mr Stuart Oglesby landed his 3rd fly caught fish in 3 visits, this one taken from the Trap.

Tuesday 24 September 2013

9lb Tay Salmon


Mr Ian Shaw with his 2nd fish of the day, again caught on the fly, this time from the Steps. Ian's fishing partner Mr Farquar Murray who has fished for the same 2 days as Ian has not managed to touch a thing. God loves a tryer tho!

12lb Tay Salmon


Newtyle regular, Mr Ian Shaw (captor of the beat's biggest fish this year to date, a fine 27lb Springer) landed 2 today, this 12lb fly caught fish was taken in the Boil

Monday 23 September 2013

£2 wild Salmon

2 fish today, 1 for myself of about 5lb from the Cotter and a 6lb fish late on from the Boil for Calum McRoberts.

I've just been reading the Comment by Andrew Flitcroft on page 3 of the October issue of Trout & Salmon.
Disgusting, is one of the less choice words that springs to mind! Netting Salmon from our coasts is still going strong and due to the dry summer the nets have been bulging by all accounts. The Salmon waiting to enter our rivers to spawn have been taking so much of a hammering that the value of wild Salmon has dropped through the floor, (as little as £2 per lb) yet they were still being netted!
The fact that the Scottish Government allows coastal netting to happen at all makes the blood boil.
It does not take a genius to work out that when all wild Salmon stocks have been depleted to the point that anglers very rarely catch one in the river that there will be no anglers at all.
I recently heard that the Montrose netting outfit have bought extra vans to cope with their increased catches.
Scotland relies heavily on tourism and tourism in turn relies heavily on Salmon angling, to the tune of £120 million a year. That cash is spread out over a vast array of business's, employing a fair amount of people i'd imagine!!
Now i'm no politician and have no real interest in politics but you'd think a Scottish Government with any brains would realise that a healthy Salmon angling industry would bolster an economy that they want to exist on its own!( No vote from me by the way)
Whilst i'm at the ranting stage of this post how on earth can we allow Salmon farming and Salmon netting, surely the point of farming is to let the wild fish survive and thrive. I'm not the biggest fan of Salmon farming either but if there must be farming why do we feel the need to net the wild stocks?
A lot of time, effort and resources are spent in trying to bolster wild salmon stocks and we let netting continue without a noise being made..It is an absolute sin in this day and age...A tragedy waiting to happen!!
Thank you Alex Salmond

Sunday 22 September 2013

16lb Tay Salmon


Mr Bob Kenyon landed this 16lb fly caught fish from the St Mary's stream on Saturday afternoon and his 87 year old dad landed a 6lb grilse from the Cotter shortly after.
Mr Bill Hannon landed a stunning 15lb cock fish on the Fly in the Boil on the same afternoon. Bill also lost another fish in the Boil before lunch.
Mr Peter Kempe also lost a fish in the afternoon in the Steps Pool.

Friday 20 September 2013

7lb Grilse


Mr Peter Kempe caught this fish in the Trap on a Tasmanian Devil on Friday morning

5lb Grilse


Mr Bob Kenyon landed this 5lb fly caught fish from the Steps pool on Thursday morning and Mr Bill Hannon landed a 10lb fly caught fish also from the Steps in the afternoon.

Wednesday 18 September 2013

5lb Grilse


Mr Jimmy Black with his 4th fish in 3 days on Newtyle, this 5lb fish was caught on the fly from the Boil.
Jimmy had 2 fish yesterday of 6 & 7lb both caught on a Vision 110.
Good work James


2lb Grilse


Mr Andrew long landed his 2nd fish of the year, a fly caught 2lb Grilse from the Boil

8lb Tay Salmon


Mr Clive Pegler today landed his 1st ever Salmon on Scottish waters. A fine 8lb fish on the fly from the Boil.

5lb Grilse


Stuart's 2nd of the morning, another fly caught fish from the Boil

10lb Tay Salmon


Mr Stuart Oglesby with his 1st fly caught fish of the morning, hooked in the Boil.

Monday 16 September 2013

Tay Grilse


Mr David Middlemiss caught his first ever Salmon today, fly fishing the tail of the Boil.
Well done David

10lb Tay Salmon


Mr Jimmy Black caught this 10lb fish from the Cotter this morning.

Sunday 15 September 2013

4lb Grilse


Mr Andy Kerr landed this 4lb Grilse on his first cast in the Cotter on Saturday morning

Thursday 12 September 2013

6lb Tay Salmon


Mr Jon Wood landed this fish from the Island Pool this morning.

Wednesday 11 September 2013

13lb Tay Salmon


Mr John Stamp recently took up Salmon fishing, and after a few lessons, landed his first ever Salmon this morning.
John was fly fishing the Boil and is now officially addicted!! Well done John.

5lb Grilse


Mr Stewart Thomson fishing Newtyle for the first time landed this 5lb Grilse this afternoon.
Stewart was fly fishing the Boil and this is his first Tay Salmon.

Sunday 8 September 2013

4lb Grilse


Mr Andy Kerr landed this Grilse from the Boil on Saturday afternoon.

Friday 6 September 2013

5lb Grilse


Mr Geoff Milligan fishing Newtyle for the first time, landed his 1st Tay Salmon and his 1st fish this year.
The fish was caught on the fly in the Boil.