Post by tyneandrew on Feb 28, 2006 17:18:08 GMT
Thought i'd do the good thing and report back after my week slogging it out on the Tay. Our party had two springers 22 & 13lbs both sea liced and taken on the harled fly. Neither to me though 
I did catch a kelt of about 5lbs though so at least felt something pulling back even though it was short lived. The most dissapointing aspect was the rate at which the water dropped when we were there. The gillie's asure us that you need big water, even on the lower Tay, to pull fish up in more reasonable numbers.
It really is amazing to here of the catches on the Upper Scone fishings in the 60's and 70's, weeks of 50 plus springers were more the norm, and occasionaly in early March they topped 100 for the week. One amuzing story the gillie told us was that a rod came up for the day and left at lunch time with 6 fish declaring the fishing affered no challenge. Hopefully it will start to come back a bit more one day....
One more thing: The most bizarre fish ever caught harling was a flounder!
I did catch a kelt of about 5lbs though so at least felt something pulling back even though it was short lived. The most dissapointing aspect was the rate at which the water dropped when we were there. The gillie's asure us that you need big water, even on the lower Tay, to pull fish up in more reasonable numbers.
It really is amazing to here of the catches on the Upper Scone fishings in the 60's and 70's, weeks of 50 plus springers were more the norm, and occasionaly in early March they topped 100 for the week. One amuzing story the gillie told us was that a rod came up for the day and left at lunch time with 6 fish declaring the fishing affered no challenge. Hopefully it will start to come back a bit more one day....
One more thing: The most bizarre fish ever caught harling was a flounder!
