Just to give you an update on what's happening on Tweedmill at the moment. We had a slow start to the season with high water and fish running straight through to middle Tweed. Now that the water height is down to summer level the fish are staying with us and catches are improving day by day. Our biggest salmon to date is a 19lb cock fish. With good fish in the 17lb range coming well to the sink tip line and fly sizes 1" Golden Gunn and 8/10s in a cascade, the Eternal Optimist in various sizes is also doing well.
The seatrout are showing themselves now, our best to date being 10lb caught on a size 8 Editor. Fish are also regularly being taken on a dry fly, Yellow May Dunn in sizes 10s and 12s, this makes great fishing as you think you're casting at a brown trout and up comes a sizzling seatrout!
# TIP: If you're venturing up to your fishing maybe this is the time to brush up on your techniques for the start of the week and book a casting lesson, or alternatively go out into an open space and practice your casting so that your muscle memory is in tune.
# TIP: With smaller flies becoming more prominent at this time of year a good knot to let the fly swim freely is the rapala knot. See article on how to tie this in Trout & Salmon June 2008 edition.
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