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

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.

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

18lb Tay Salmon

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

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

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

15lb Tay salmon

Mr Ian Hendry landed his first Spring Salmon of the year, a fine 15lb beauty from the Cotter on a harled pink and pearl Tomic.
The water dropped 3" today

12lb Tay Salmon

A big water this Saturday morning but it dropped 6" by 2pm so i took Calum McRoberts out for a wee harl for an hour. He had been at Dunkeld House for a few hours in the morning and he dropped in for a blether. We fished for the hour before Calum had to get home and as i was winding in the fish nailed a pearly pink Tomic.

18lb Tay Salmon

Mr Stephen Martin landed this stunning 18lb sea liced fish from the Ferry Pool this afternoon. The fish took a harled Pearl & Pink Tomic and was quickly returned with the minimum of handling.

10lb Tay Salmon

Mr David Gardiner landed this fine 10lb springer from the Steps Pool on a Vision 110 this morning. Well done David.

Rumours are rife throught the Tay that the Burnmouth beat in Stanley are still killing all the Springers they catch. The only difference this year is that beat owner Mike Smith is not posting the catches on Fishtay and the speculation is that they have had over 50 so far, all in the freezer awaiting the smokehouse!
If these rumours are true then it's a disgrace that they are getting away with it especially as every other beat on the Tay is making every effort to ensure that the Spring run increases in strengh in the future.
It boils the blood to think that all these fine fish are being ruthlessly despatched. Lets be honest, who can eat that much smoked Salmon?
Let your feelings be known please.
There is a Tay District Salmon Fisheries Board open annual meeting in the Birnam Institute on Tuesday 25th March at 18.45
All are welcome to this meeting to hear about the work of the Board and ask questions.

8lb Tay Salmon

Miss Sarah Hinchliffe fishing with her partner Roger Worth landed her 1st ever Springer today. It was Sarah's last day of a 3 day trip to Newtyle and her 1st foray into Spring Salmon fishing. Well done Sarah and sorry about the dodgy picture!

Hardy Jet SINTRIX

I had the good fortune to try out the new Hardy Jet SINTRIX 15ft 10 wt double hander today.
I tried it with a Rio iFlight Skagit, 30ft of T17 and a copper tube and it coped well.
Then tried the Rio AFS Hover, 10ft fast tip and an Alu. tube and it was excellent.
Next was the new Rio Scandi, again with a 10ft fast on it and the Alu. tube. Once again it was flying out.
It also handled a 65ft Spey line with a floating tip and a tube with ease.
Seems to me like an excellent all rounder and i thoroughly enjoyed casting it. Its light and feels more supple than the Zenith.
I will be adding one to the collection.
Thanks to Ian Gordon, speyonline.com and his very able assistant Tom Brown for leaving the rod with me for a few days..
Cheers

12lb Tay Salmon

Mr Stan Antczak landed this fly caught 12lb Springer on his 1st visit to Newtyle.
Stan was fishing the Boil with a Rio Outbound floating line, 10ft extra super fast sinking tip and a 3" Monkey
Well done Stan, landing your 1st January fish and with 4ft 8" on the gauge!...Outstanding!

17lb Tay Salmon

A 17lb Spring Salmon from Newtyle today. The lucky angler, Mr Calum McRoberts landed the fish in the Dean's burn harling a V1T. Well played Calum.

New table

12lb Tay Salmon

Mr Richard Goddard landed this fly caught fish from St Mary's this morning and also landed a wee Grilse from the same pool, good work Richard.
Mr Thomas Scanlon lost a fish on his 2nd cast of the morning in the Dean's Burn Pool

Grilse

Mr Christian Lassiaille from France landed this 5lb cock fish fly fishing from the boat, It was Christian's first cast of the day. His fishing partner Daniel Viry also hooked a fish on his first cast after lunch but it fell off after 20 seconds or so.

5lb, 6lb &16lb

Mr Daniel Viry from France and fishing Newtyle for the first time landed 2 Grilse on Friday. Both fish caught fly fishing from the boat. The 1st around 5lb from the Cotter in the morning and the other 6lb from the Steps in the Afternoon. We also watched Mr Colin Wilkie land a cracking 16lb hen fish from the Steps. Well done gents.

18lb Tay Salmon

Mr Tony Thomas caught this large cock fish in the Dean's Burn. This is one of the 2 fly caught fish that Tony landed this afternoon, the other being a small silver Grilse.

11lb Tay Salmon

Mr Roger Worth landed this fly caught fish in the Boil this afternoon

Grilse

He's at it again, Mr Jack Hopper (88) landed this Grilse from the Plain Tree pool this afternoon.
Mr Owen Duff lost a fish in the Boil on the fly this morning.
Yesterday a 5lb Grilse was caught in the Steps and 3 fish were lost.

17lb Tay Salmon

Mr Donald Stewart landed this fly caught cock fish from the Steps pool on Saturday afternoon and 81 year old Mr Ian Preston landed a 4lb Grilse from the Cotter.

17lb Tay Salmon

Mr Marco Rebora originally from Italy but residing in the UK for the past 40 years landed his first Tay Salmon on his 1st Tay visit. The fly caught fish was taken from the Boil before lunch.
Mr Colin Wilkie also landed a fly caught 5lb silver fish from the tail of the Cotter a couple of hours earlier.

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

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.

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

£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

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.

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.