Fishing Reports: 2020

The weather forecast for next week is pretty changeable, there will be some rain, probably not enough, and some sunshine. It should be cooler, a drop in the water temperature ought to help the catches.…

The lockdown has been eased enough to allow travel from most parts of the U.K. and Europe, so I can start reporting again on the river, I will restrict my comments to the numbers of…

I regret that I will not be writing the usual type of report with pictures and catch numbers until the river returns to some sort of normality. Unfortunately my recent reports appear to have upset…

What a week, it has taken about 2 hours to process the photographs and I have not even used all I received. The river is realy fishing well. It’s going to be warm and mainly…

Well the weeks are getting longer this fishing week had five days in it, Saturday the river was big, rising and coloured. Friday was a wet day, not pleasant but having missed so many days…

Oh well my holiday is over and back to writing a Sunday Report, but it was good to get back out on the river after almost two months of idleness. Weather conditions were far from…

Well it has been a better week, some days it was a pleasure to be on the river. Anthony Smith told me he saw a sand martin at Rothes and I saw one myself later…

Well it has been a little better, the river has still been unsettled and this weekend’s rain is already pushing the river up, hopefully not by too much. There is rain forecast for Tuesday and…

Another week, another spate. The sudden rise in temperature coupled with a strong southerly wind brought the inevitable snow melt and rise in the river. Last night’s temperature remained close to double figures. Temperatures drop…

The forecast for the coming week is to be a little warmer than last week. Do not get too excited it is just by a couple of degrees but the wind strength is also down…