Friday 25 April 2014

6lb & 8lb Tay Salmon



Mr Ron Fraser caught yet another 2 fish today. The first a 6lb fish from the Steps and another at 8lb from the Cotter. Both fish caught on the fly. he also lost 2 before catching the 1st fish.
Thats 6 of the 11 fish we have had this week landed by Ron....Outstanding effort sir....Hurry back!!


12lb Tay Salmon


Mr David Fraser caught this fine 12lb Salmon on a Toby from the Trap

Thursday 24 April 2014

8lb & 10lb Tay Salmon


Mr Ron Fraser is having a ball...2 fish today both from the Cotter. A 10lb fish and an 8lb sea liced fish...Both on the fly.....Outstanding effort Ron, well done.

Wednesday 23 April 2014

14lb Tay Salmon



Paul Worsteling from ifish Australia is over in the UK filming for his latest tv show and came to the beat today looking to catch a Salmon and did just that. In fact he managed to land a 9lb and a 14lb fish from the Steps Pool and the Plain Tree.
Kinkuro 120 and Pink and Pearl Tomic were the winning lures.
Paul his wife Cristy their son Jet and camera man Sytse were all great company and excellent fun.
Mr Lawrie Hickman from Guideline UK landed a 14lb fly caught fish from the Trap.
Mr Ron Fraser landed a fly caught 7lb liced fish from the Steps giving us 4 for the day.

9lb Tay Salmon


Mr Paul Worsteling from ifish Australia landed this cracking fish from the Steps pool this morning ably supported by his 7 year old son Jet. The fish took a pearl and pink tomic

7lb Tay Salmon


Mr Ron Fraser with our 4th fish of the day and his 2nd fly caught fish in 2 days, this time a 7lb liced fish from the Boil...He had an 11lb fish from the Steps yesterday.....Well done Ron

Monday 21 April 2014

18lb Tay Salmon


Mr Allan Rennie landed this fine Springer from the Steps Pool this afternoon

Friday 18 April 2014

12lb Tay Salmon


Mr Elliot Bryant landed this fly caught 12lb Spring Salmon from the Steps Pool at midday. The fish took a Tummel Monkey.
Mr Andrew Fanning lost a fish at his feet in the Trap on a Salmo.

15lb Tay Salmon


On Tuesday Miss Leen Verhoeven from Belgium and fishing with her Dad (who lost a bigger fish from the Ferry Pool in the morning) landed this 15lb beauty spinning a Payo Aegis 110 Stardust Shad from the boat in the Plain Tree Pool..Her first Sottish Salmon..Well done Leen

Sunday 6 April 2014

16lb Tay Salmon


David Cronshaw from Moniaive nr Dumfries, caught this Spring beauty fly fishing the Cotter on Saturday afternoon. His fish was taken on a red conehead Cronart fly.
A good fish was lost on a Payo 110 in the Ferry Pool in the morning.

The Cronart fly was invented by David and his fishing associate also called David while living near the highlands and fishing the Findhorn. The Cronart fly had 65 fish between the two men in 2012 and over 30 in 2013 and has been successful in Scotland on the Tay, Tweed, Dee, Spey, Findhorn, Lochy and on the Ribble (Lancashire).

12lb Tay Salmon


Mr Paul McGeoch landed this fly caught 12lb Springer from the tail of the Trap on the 30th March. Paul's first fish of the season had a couple of sea lice on it. Well done.

Tay Springer


An angler who wishes to remain unamed landed this fine wee Springer late on Thursday. We spotted a few fish showing down in the Boil and Steps and went Harling for a while..Pearl and Pink Payo 110....Result