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.

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.

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.

4lb Grilse

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

6lb Tay Salmon

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

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.

4lb Grilse

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

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.

10lb Tay Salmon

Mr Clive Mason landed this fine fly caught cock Salmon in the Boil this afternoon and Mr Steven Smiley landed a fly caught 4lb Grilse from St Marys in the morning.
On Monday morning Mr Malcolm Anderson landed a Grilse in the Ferry pool as did Mr Don Gow.
In the afternoon Mr Gordon Smith landed an 8lb liced fish in the Cotter and Malcolm landed another Grilse, again from the Ferry Pool.

3lb Grilse

Mr Gary Waugh landed this shiny wee Grilse from the tail of the Boil on Saturday morning and landed another identical fish 5 minutes later in the Steps Pool. In the afternoon Robert McFarlane landed a clean 9lb cock fish in the Steps and Andy Kerr lost 2 fish in Fiddlers in the early evening.
On Tuesday Bruce Hay lost a fish in the Cotter.

3lb Grilse

Mr Michael Henderson landed this clean wee Grilse from the tail of the Cotter on Monday evening and Mr Stuart Oglesby lost a good sized coloured fish from the same spot in the morning.

3lb Grilse

88 year old Mr Jack Hopper landed this fly caught Grilse from the Boil on Wednesday morning.
Mr John Mitchell also landed a 4lb Grilse from the St Marys stream the same morning also on the fly.
Mr Steven Norris landed 2 fly caught Grilse on Tuesday, the Deans Burn & St Marys producing.
7 fish were lost this week.