Leaving Braelangwell
It is always hard leaving the River Carron in such good condition but we all had a great time and left on a high note with Paddy Miller landing a lovely 12lber just before packing up
Braelangwell Lodge
Salmon Fishing at Braelangwell Lodge, Scotland
Leaving Braelangwell
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When the river started rising last night Lucy Bardwell caught a lovely 13.5lber in the Washerwoman. This morning, before breakfast Fen Howieson caught three salmon, all from the Morail. One of them had a green tag with the number 100 in it.
Patrick Miller got off the mark this morning with a salmon from Frenchmans.
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Week of the 08/05/16
The Jupp party had very low water all week with hot sunny days up to the Friday when the wind went into the North.
Alan Lutman caught a salmon on Monday morning by 6am from Millers skating a Collie at the neck of the pool. On Thursday Alan caught his second from Lower Craigs, again before 7am.
On Saturday morning, Nick Jupp caught a salmon from the Neck of the Morail skating a Cascade variant.
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The Jupp party were out before 6am on Monday morning which paid off for Alan Lutman, he caught a salmon in the neck off Millers pulling a Collie across the surface. Several other fish were pulled and were on and off.
Three fish were hooked this morning in the Neck of the Morail, again between 6 and 8am.
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Week of the 1st May
On Monday, the river rose to 4’3″, at around 4ft Chris Higham caught 2 salmon in quick succession from Kennel run. It went quiet until late afternoon when the river had dropped back to 2’3″ Chris caught 2 more in the Morail. Jonty Goodchild caught 1 in Kennel run then went to the Morail and caught 4 by 7.30pm.
On Tuesday, the river again rose to 4ft. When it dropped back Jonty caught 2, Nimrod Dix caught 1, all in the Morail. The fourth of the day was caught by J Insham in the Boat.
The river dropped off over the rest of the week but Nimrod Dix caught another 3, 2 of them on big Collie dogs and Jonty caught a 12lber in the Neck of the Morail. Paul Norman left it till the Saturday to catch 2, one in Washerwoman and 1 in Gardners
This gave us 19 salmon for the week. As well as having Braelangwell the Goodchild party had the fishing on Cornhill where they caught 12 for the week. Gruinards had 18 and Cornhill had 6. Unfortunately, we don’t know what came off the other two beats but with at least 55 salmon caught it was the best week so far.
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Update
We caught 2 salmon yesterday, 1 in the Neck of the Morail at 12lb and 1 in the Washerwoman on a Collie. We had 1 on Thursday taking us to 16 salmon for the week so far.
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Tuesday
Yesterday, the river was very unsettled in the morning fluctuating between 3ft and 3ft 6. Between 4pm and 7.30pm we caught 4, 2 in Morail, 1 in Kennel run and 1 in Boat. The water temperature was down from 47f on Monday to 41f.
On Monday Jonty Goodchild caught a tagged fish in the Morail with the number 0109, this fish had been caught on the 9th of April by a Gruinards rod, Ronan Kennedy.
Gruinards landed 6 salmon yesterday.
Today the river is running at 3 inches, the water temp is 44f.
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Monday
Monday started with the river rising to 4ft. Chis Higham had 2 out of kennel run. In the afternoon the river dropped steadily to 1ft 9. We caught anothe 7, five to Jonty Goodchild and three more to Chris. All were from the Morail or kennel run
Gruinards also caught 8 yesterday with another 3 off the river that we know of
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Week of the 25th of April
We had a spell of cold weather with snow on the ground two mornings and frost which put pay to any more fish getting over the Morail falls. On the upside, we had snow melt most days which kept the river running between 3 inches and minus 6.
We caught 3 salmon for the week. On the 27th Jerry Alexander caught 1 in the boat pool at 7lb then Prof Bill Gilmore caught an 8lber in the Scarp. On the 29th A T Elder caught a 10lber in the Washerwoman.
I know of another 5 salmon caught on Dounie but have no figures from the rest of the river.
This morning the river is running at 3ft so fingers crossed.
