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Post by salmonking on Jul 15, 2007 18:48:16 GMT
Rain on the way billy bhoy,,,,,,tweed will rise again  |
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Post by stoater on Jul 15, 2007 20:01:20 GMT
My week on the Till at Tiptoe was something of an anti-climax. The whole Tweed system has been blessed with the best runs of sea-trout for several years, so I was mystified on arrival to see the sum Total of seatrout so far this year standing at 3! Yes, 03! The neighbouring beats that i know of and fish (Ford and Etal, Doddington/Fenton area) have been really doing well with a significant amount of big seatrout too.
Then I discovered why. Tiptoe is an outstandingly beautiful valley beat, with the potential to be possibly the premier Till stretch. But the banks are so unkept and overgrown as to make fishing impossible over 90% of it's length. Tragic. Having spent a day swishing and slashing with my wading stick, I managed to approach two pools closely enough to have a cast.
Over the 3 days I felt up to getting stung, speycasting with a single-hander etc., I landed 2 2-3lb seatrout and lost several more. So they were there, as shown by a friend who day-fished the Ford/Etal water for 2 days at the same time. He had Salmon of 11, 10 and 8lbs, plus 7 seatrout with 3 over 7lb each.
All was not lost though, as thanks to the wonders of the internet I was able to book a day on one of the main Tweed beats- for £30, including the most amusing and hard-rowing Boatman ever! - and I landed 2 brand new salmon of 11 and 12lb, on the lower River near Coldstream. The Rod sharing the beat also had sport, with a 10lb salmon and seatrout of 5 and 7lb. The Cascade seemed the fly of the day.
I then fished Friday on Boleside, reckoning upriver would be the place to be. Wrong! Nigel Fell the gillie said they are only taking the very odd fish, always brand new, which seems to be the picture all over. The constant high water has not encouraged fish to become "resident", thereby encouraging others to take station alongside them. At least we have a truly clean river now, odd for now. My fear is that if we now get a dry spell, the pools on the tribs where all these fish have run to, may become vulnerable to predation, human and otherwise.
Anyone else been out?
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Post by salmonking on Jul 15, 2007 21:24:49 GMT
Well done tim,i certainly wouldn't call that an anti climax,you got some cracking fish,i have fished tiptoe before and the banks are hellish,with the whitty being in good fettle ive yet to venture the till this year,ive had a few more c trout on the whitty,but the runs of salmon have slowed down,there must be a hell of a lot well up the system now,and they should be ok if they have made it up to the big holding pools at elba.
By the way which tweed beat did you fish?
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Post by Yorkshire Esk on Jul 17, 2007 19:15:41 GMT
26lb er at sprouston today. Not a bad fish I reckon
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Post by billytheghillie on Jul 20, 2007 13:35:40 GMT
story goes ghillies not present rough estimation by anglers
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Post by fenton on Jul 22, 2007 8:15:05 GMT
A belated thank you to Billy for looking after me two Saturdays ago. The river was rising when we arrived, but we persisted until early afternoon.
I lost a sea trout third cast, bumped another, and had a follow to the boat.
More importantly we had a good craic, and a good chat about tying flies, during which I learnt a few good new tips, although I didn't know how to take it when he told me I needed to buy a head lice comb!!
Thanks for a good day Billy, and hope to fish with you again soon. It was also nice to put another face to another name from this forum,
cheers
F
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Post by billytheghillie on Jul 26, 2007 15:14:06 GMT
cheers fenton hope to catch you soon. p.s. hows the lice?
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Post by fenton on Jul 26, 2007 17:16:39 GMT
LOL!
Anyone heard about a pacific sockeye salmon on the tweed??!!!!!!
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Post by jock on Jul 26, 2007 18:32:12 GMT
LOL! Anyone heard about a pacific sockeye salmon on the tweed??!!!!!! No but a few years ago a pink was caught in the leven  |
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Post by billytheghillie on Jul 26, 2007 20:00:54 GMT
who caught it JOHN WEST hehehe
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Post by Yorkshire Esk on Jul 26, 2007 20:41:38 GMT
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Post by colliedog on Jul 26, 2007 22:34:31 GMT
I saw a photo of it that was doing the e-mail rounds but have deleted it. Apparently it was caught a Boleside on Saturday. I think it was a pink (humpback) Ugly fecker with a big kype. First reaction was - that'll give the Tweed marketing boys something else to crank up the rent with CD |
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Post by billytheghillie on Jul 27, 2007 13:26:29 GMT
no more sweatshirts now from tweed foundation for c&r on springers, instead you will get a tin of pink salmon hehe
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Post by colliedog on Jul 27, 2007 18:03:58 GMT
no more sweatshirts now from tweed foundation for c&r on springers, instead you will get a tin of pink salmon hehe ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by castlikeaghille on Jul 27, 2007 19:59:50 GMT
no more sweatshirts now from tweed foundation for c&r on springers, instead you will get a tin of pink salmon hehe ;D ;D ;D And here is one of the photos of that were circulating earlier in the week that fell in my in-box. Don't see any sign of 1st April anywhere, then again it could be a total wind-up   :)Anyway, here is the text that came with said pic. Anyone out there like to confirm, even though the wrong ocean, if this is one of nature's occassional bizzare strays (which seem to becoming more frequent) - or is it just all a grand fuishie tale for amusement only purposes? Regardez CLaG "A bizarre catch at Boleside on Saturday – a Pink (Humpback) Salmon, a Pacific Salmon species. Introduced to NW Russia in the 1960’s they’ve spread into Northern Norway so it hasn’t come that far. There have been nine caught in Scottish waters since 1960, only 3 in rivers. It ran milt when killed – this is the beginning of their spawning season"  |
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Post by splash on Jul 27, 2007 20:08:36 GMT
And here is one of the photos of that were circulating earlier in the week that fell in my in-box. Don't see any sign of 1st April anywhere, then again it could be a total wind-up :)Anyway, here is the text that came with said pic. Anyone out there like to confirm, even though the wrong ocean, if this is one of nature's occassional bizzare strays (which seem to becoming more frequent) - or is it just all a grand fuishie tale for amusement only purposes? Regardez CLaG Looks like one of Stevie's escapee rainbows from Portmore ;D ;D ;D |
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Post by zephead on Jul 28, 2007 8:51:19 GMT
Reminds me of some of the birds I have chased when I've been a bit be-lagered and beleagured,although I recall their teeth were always sharper................
ZH
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Post by splash on Jul 28, 2007 9:23:36 GMT
Reminds me of some of the birds I have chased when I've been a bit be-lagered and beleagured,although I recall their teeth were always sharper................ ZH Yes quite, you've still to unearth the infamous "bird in the glass" photo from the opening of the Revolution Vodka Bar although admittedly she was certainly a class up from those mermaid stunnas ..... |
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Post by colliedog on Jul 28, 2007 22:34:24 GMT
Reminds me of some of the birds I have chased when I've been a bit be-lagered and beleagured,although I recall their teeth were always sharper................ ZH Yes quite, you've still to unearth the infamous "bird in the glass" photo from the opening of the Revolution Vodka Bar although admittedly she was certainly a class up from those mermaid stunnas ..... Aye right enough. Zep - she would make my top ten screen saver list - bout time you released the photos - at least to those that were there  CD |
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Post by zephead on Jul 29, 2007 9:25:27 GMT
Whats the saying,"A bird in the glass is worth two in the bush",or something like that......
Problem is I am a Photof*@kwit when it comes to photobucket.
Need to get them loaded up with the ones from The Triad Siege as well.
ZH
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:)Anyway, here is the text that came with said pic. Anyone out there like to confirm, even though the wrong ocean, if this is one of nature's occassional bizzare strays (which seem to becoming more frequent) - or is it just all a grand fuishie tale for amusement only purposes? 