UPDATE OF SEASON CATCHES ON CORNHILL BEAT 2025 last season 2025 at Cornhill we had a pretty disastrous season we ended up with a total of 23. = Salmon 11 and Grilse 12. I hope this this is not downward trend the fishing over the last 3 seasons has been very erratic with very poor […]
END OF THE DISASTROUS 2025 SEASON Read More »
Air vice marshal Johnnie Johnson A great memory I wonder how Johnnie Johnson would feel now in these days where our shores are being invaded by thousands of illegal migrants every week coming across the channel, The very Channel he and his young comrades literally defended with their lives every day, with many of
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A pal Ernie Mackay with a big sea trout he caught it was 730mm and estimated at 8.5lbs Ernie caught it in the River Ythan.
Week beginning March 20th. Fishing Gledfield beat I had a good bit of early spring fishing over on the Gledfield beat last week, It was a very changeable week of weather and water levels. I had a productive and enjoyable time for the two days and four mornings that i fished i managed to pick
Tuesday 21st February. The river was running at 1ft4 inch it was very overcast with a cold sharp wind i only fished a couple of hours in late afternoon, on the way back up from the Raven pool heading home i fished the Lairds Cast again, I was delighted to land a lovely springer very
First Spring Salmon of 2023 Caught at Cornhill Read More »
February 1st. We have had two further falls of snow the last one gave us approx 6 inches it lasted about 4 days and had cleared by Sat 21st January. With the thaw the river ran at a good height of 3ft 9 inch to 2ft 5 inch all week dropping to 1ft 5 on
The Salmon fishing season oppened on January 11th, on the Wednesday the oppening day the river was running at 2ft 2 inch and over the rest of the week it ran steady basically at between 2ft 4 inch and 2ft dropping to 1ft 6 inch on the Saturday. These steady good water levels were due
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Wednesday 7th September The very heavy rain at times since Sunday morning and the odd rumble of thunder did not do much to the water level as the wind was coming in from the east, it put it up to about 7 inch by Tuesday but the rain was pretty constant and heavy at times
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I went down and fished the Kyle again on Wednesday August 31st and landed a couple of Grilse both 5 lbs and lost another that was briefly on before throwing the hook. I fished it again on Friday 2nd September and had another really good day i landed 3 I had salmon of 7lbs &
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I have hardly fished the Kyle this season only had three very quick goes no more than two hours each time. However i did fish it again on on Monday 22nd of August and was delighted to get two lovely fresh grilse both of 5 lbs, the first of the two grilse was very memorable
Delighted to have just landed my 1.700 hundredth salmon Read More »
