Jamie’s catch of a lifetime.
30/04/2012
Myself and Jean went down to Jamie’s wedding in Dundee and then on to a brilliant reception in Birkhill castle. it was great to meet up with some good friends a few of them fishers and a couple of Ghillies, The speeches were all extremely funny and quite enlightening as to what Jamie was like when he was younger especially from his good pal Alastair Ness, big Nessie master of ceremonies and Jamie’s brother Tim, Jamie Parratt with the catch of his life new wife Martel.
A brace of springers at Gledfield
I fished Monday April 23rd on the Gledfield beat and was delighted to land a 7lb salmon followed by a 5 pounder both carrying long tailed sea lice, both were caught in the Raven pool and both were taken on a Kyley shrimp gold hooked double, I lost a good fish the following day and Peter Wemyss. Landed a fresh 10 pounder in Gledfield pool. I hope the smaller 5 pounder is not the end of the run of fish still very cold for time of year with practically nothing showing other than if the river is up in height. I was then off down to a good friend Jamie’s wedding in Dundee for the weekend.
Two springers from lower Shin
08/04/2012
I went over and fished the lower River Shin on Friday 6th of April The Carron was showing just under 3 foot on the Gauge when I left due to yesterdays quick thaw and mild overnight temperatures. The Shin due to the Hydro scheme does not benefit as much from natural spates as the water is controlled by the dam. Even so the river was up about 5 inches, I had a very enjoyable day and a very exciting morning I pulled a fish in Cromarty pool, carried on down and pulled another salmon in the Shoulder of Cromarty, I covered him again and on the next cast he took solidly I could tell he was a good fish as he stripped off line and looked as though he was heading for the Angus pool at one point, eventually I got him up near the pulpit rock and as I was landing him I fell in ! not an easy place to land a fish and as I had a sinking tip attached to my Intermediate line I could not shorten line enough to swing fish in to where I wanted him eventually I managed, He was I would say 17lbs been in river about a month. After ten minutes I tried the one that I had pulled first and he took ! landed him a lot easier he was sea liced and weighed in at 8lbs. Both were taken on a 1.25 inch Kyley, that was all the excitement for the day fished on until five o’clock.
Two 7lb salmon from Bridge pool.
26/03/2012
The start of this week saw the water level sitting at 6 inches it went up on Tuesday to 1foot 4 inch but dropped back pretty quickly and has dropped all week by Saturday it was down to 5inch the weather has been quite sunny and fairly warm, Although the wind has at times swung to the east making it quite cold at times this east wind often brings in a haar which some days has taken quite a while to burn off. I fished the Gledfield beat on Wednesday 21st March and had a very exciting mornings fishing landing a couple of sea liced 7 lb salmon and losing another one after about 2 minutes all were in the Bridge pool. This years springers so far seem to be generally smaller, back to prior to last years springers which were of an exceptional quality, So with the diminishing water levels and as at present there does not seem to be an abundance of fish I was delighted, both salmon were caught on a kyley shrimp gold hooked equivalent of an 8.
Calum’s springer from Gledfield
20/03/2012
There has not been a lot happening it has been very quiet as the river level drops and at present their does not seem to be to many salmon about. Calum Beattie landed this small Sea liced springer of 7lbs on the Gledfield pool from the Gledfield beat ten days ago.
Second salmon from Cornhill
05/03/2012
I came back up from the Spey after two days at Wester Elchies, and fished a little on the Cornhill beat on Wednesday 29th February in between some bush cutting I tried a few pools, I managed to land a 7.5 lb springer in the Gledfield pool, it was very fresh with the sea lice just off it took a Collie dog at the top end of the pool the river is dropping with just a little snow melt coming away each day or it would be lower than it is, 10 inch on Wednesday, but down to 7.5 inch on Saturday.
Wester Elchies
01/03/2012
I was down staying with a good friend Arthur McKerron fishing the River Spey at Wester Elchies Monday and Tuesday 27TH & 28TH February. We had good laughs as usual and I had good fun 
landing eight kelts the last one after a tricky wade down through the fast flowing Rhynd pool it just had to be a springer! Alas no another pretty big kelt.
One fresh salmon was landed on Monday, Arthur took 20 minutes off from his cooking duties in the hut, went outside to the Delagyle pool and landed a fresh 10 pounder Arthur’s been struggling with a very painful knee so he did well getting down the bank to land the fish.
River Isla
25/02/2012
Just received e mail and a few photos from Adam Shaw, Adam and Jamie were out for the day on Tuesday 21st feb, on the Couper grange and Gauldry beats of the River Isla nothing fresh to report but they had a good day Kelt bashing as Adam put it very strong upstream wind made things a little difficult, no problem though for Jamie the “power” Parratt.The Shaw Parratt trophy for 2012 is still all square at the moment.
The first salmon of season 2012
20/02/2012
I fished he Cornhill beat on Friday 17th February the river level was 1 ft 4 inch it was a fairly mild day with bright spells and a steady west wind, the previous day the river was running at 2 feet 2 inch. so it was dropping back nicely.I am delighted to report that at 12.15, I connected with a strong fish in the March pool that fought extremely well and shortly after I managed to land a fresh sea liced 9lb salmon it was taken on a 1 .25 inch Kyley this is the first of the beat and I am reliably informed by Andrew Graham Stewart that it’s the first springer off any of the Kyle rivers. Saturday brought in fresh snow and a big dip in temperatures but apparently rain coming in Monday with milder wetter weather and by Thursday temperatures up around 14 degrees ! which would be very high for this time of year so we will see.
Fishing on River Tyne.
01/11/2011
Ann Cleverly a good friend that i have fished with and ghillied for was up staying with us ten days ago and was telling me about her fishing trip to the River Tyne on the Bywell beat at the end of September. Below is photo of Ann with a fresh run 12 lb salmon and John with a fresh 4 pounder caught at Bywell.
