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May 23
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April

Tags : #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon fishing Scotland

April consisted of Easterly wind, snow and unseasonably warm weather in random order.

The Alston party caught 1 salmon for their week, a 7lber at 20.10pm on the Saturday night with a Collie on the surface in a bitterly east wind. Oscar Hedgecoe was standing on the gauge rock at the neck of the Morail when the fish took.

Colin Campbell’s party caught 2 for their week.

On the 12th Mary Nicholson caught 1 in the Morail on the back of a rise in water. In the afternoon there were fish showing all over the Morail and down into Kennel run before they disappeared over the falls. On the 13th Colin Campbell caught an 11lber in Gardners with 3 inches on the gauge.

The Arkwright party caught 1 for their week. Thomas Arkwright caught the 7lber from the Rock on the Monday afternoon. The weather warmed up and by Thursday the water temperature reached 57f !!

Last week the Gilmore party caught 4, 3 of them on Friday off a rise in water to 6 inches on our gauge. Alasdair Mackie caught 1 from the Morail at 8lb, Andrew Elder caught 1 in Gardners at 7lb and Bill Gilmore caught his from the Morail at 7lb.

On Saturday Alasdair Mackie caught 1 in Gardners weighing 7lb.

March started off well on the Carron with around 30 salmon off the river which was as good as anywhere in Scotland but with the water temperature being high for the spring the fish did not stop more than a day or two below the Morail falls. The fish could have gone over the Morail falls on the 21st of March and were then in the Glencalvie falls on the 5th of April. Most years that could be a month early.

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Jul 22
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Week of the 26th June

Tags : #Firstfish Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

Again the forecast promised us rain every day and again it was wrong!!

With minus 15″ on the gauge the Munro Ford party did exceptionally well in their first week at Braelangwell with 4 grilse for the week.

On Monday Rollo Grandy caught 1 from Upper Craigs on a small black Francis with a couple of sea lice on it.

On Wednesday Jemima Grandy caught a fresh grilse from the neck of the Washerwoman.

Fishing after dinner on Friday night Jim Browne caught a nice 2lb sea trout.

We had a small rise on Friday night and 2 fresh grilse were caught on Saturday. Jos Clarke caught 1 in Gardners and Adriana Navarrete caught her first fish from the neck of Millers.

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Jun 22
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Week of the 19th June

Tags : Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

There was some rain at the weekend giving a small rise in the water height for Monday morning. Jimmy Royds caught a grilse in Contractors on a hitch and Liliana Sykes caught another grilse in the neck of the Washerwoman skating a sunray across the surface. There was minus 8″ on the gauge.

On Tuesday we were down to minus 11″ but another two were added to the book. Mark Butler caught a grilse in Keepers on a stoats tail and Clare MacInnes caught a grilse in the neck of Millers on a small red francis.

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Jun 22
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Week of the 29th May

Tags : #atlanticsalmon #catchandrelease #flyfishing Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing

The wee started off the back of some good water the previous week so expectations were high.

Monday started with about 3 inches on the gauge and 4 salmon were landed. Finlay had 2, 1 from Lower Craigs and 1 from Field. The host Robert Sloss Had 1 from Washerwoman on a Collie and Simon Prichard had 1 in Boat on a Snaelda.

The river rose overnight and was 1ft 9″ first thing. Angus Sloss took advantage of the dropping river and was on the Morail at the back of 5am. He was rewarded with 2 from the tail of the Morail. Later Robert Sloss caught 1 from Lower Craigs on a hitch and a lovely 12lber from Kennel run.

On the 1st of June, another 2 were added, Simon Prichard caught the first grilse of the season in Contractors on a hitch and just after arriving Fred Sloss caught an 8lber from the neck of Washerwoman on a hitch 2nd cast.

By Saturday the river had dropped to minus 8″ and the sun had well and truly came out but Fred Sloss tempted a very small grilse of about 1.5lb from the neck of the Morail on a micro red Francis.

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Jun 22
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Spring 2022

Tags : #catchandrelease #flyfishing #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

Although Daniel Logie got the Carron off the mark on the 1st of February with a springer from the tail of the Morail on the Gruinards side it was the 17th of February before Finlay caught our first fish, a 17lber, again from the tail of the morail.

The water dropped off for most of March but Jean Matterson saved a blank month with a springer from the Washerwoman with about minus 14″ on the gauge.

April saw 19 salmon landed with many more lost. The best week was the week of the 3rd with 13 landed on this side. Our tenant, Olly Alston also had Gruinards opposite and 2 rods on Dounie and between the three beats, they had 34 to between 5 and 7 rods.

We caught 39 salmon for May with the week of the 8th being the best. Nick Jupps’s party landed 13 for their week. Again most of the month was dry saved by good water between the 26th and the 3rd of June.

Nicky Griffiths’s part caught 7 and Rob Sloss’s caught 8 to the 31st and 11 for the week including the first grilse on the 1st from Contractors.

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Jun 22
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Week of the 22nd May

Tags : #catchandrelease #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scottish rivers

It was a quiet start to the week until a small rise on Tuesday night.

On Wednesday James Hunt caught an 11lb salmon in the Rock pool.

On Thursday the river was up after rain the night before. Jamie Urquhart caught a 9lb salmon with Long tail lice, again from the Rock pool. It was also very windy.

It rained all day Thursday and on Friday the river peaked at about 5ft 3″. On the fall Paddy Miller caught an 8lber in the Morail with 3ft on the gauge.

On Saturday we started with 1ft 9″. Nicky Griffiths got off the mark first with a 9lb salmon from the Morail before breakfast. She then had another 9lber from Lower Craigs then a cracking 16lber from the Morail in the afternoon. Paddy Miller caught a 9lber from Kennel Run in the afternoon and Finlay also caught a 7lber in Kennel run fishing in the evening.

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May 22
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Week of the 15th May

Tags : #catchandrelease #flyfishing #flyonly #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

The weather forecasting was shockingly bad all week promising rain that didn’t really come.

There was a freshen up on the 20th which took the water temperature down from 60f to 54f and the wind also went out of the East which brought some fresh fish through the beat.

With minus 11 on the gauge, Tim cross caught 2 on the 20th, 1 from Keepers and 1 from the neck of the Morail. Both had sea lice. Tom Dawson also caught 1 from the neck of Lower Craigs.

On the 21st Jonty Goodchild caught a fresh 10lber from the neck of the Morail before breakfast.

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May 22
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Week of the 8th of May

Tags : #flyfishing #springfishing Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

The Jupp party landed 13 salmon for the week.

With minus 10″ on the gauge Dave Barnfield started proceedings with a 15.5lber from the neck of the Morail before breakfast on Monday morning.

On Wednesday the river rose to 1ft 6″ and 8 were landed, 4 while it was rising and 4 late in the day as it started to drop. Two came from Kennel run, 5 from the Morail and 1 from Millers. Dave Barnfield caught 2, Alan Lutman caught 3, Rick Verbeeten caught 2 and Nick Jupp 1.

On Thursday 3 were landed. Nick Jupp caught the first at 6.15 am from the Morail and Dave Barnfield had one from Frenchmans and another from Burnmouth.

On Friday Rick Verbeeten caught the last fish of the week at 7.30 am from Frenchmans. After that, it all went quiet.

Strangely we didn’t land a fish below Kennel run !!

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May 22
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Week of the 2nd May

Tags : #catchandrelease #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries Salmon Salmon fishing

We had a rise in water on Sunday but by Monday morning the water was back to minus 7″. We ended the week with a small rise to minus 6″

On the 2nd Dr Stuart Gray caught a 7lb salmon from Judges followed quickly by a 2lb sea trout with sea lice. This is early for sea trout but we did have one of a pound back in the week of the 3rd of April. David Jenkins caught a7lb salmon in the Smooth pool. We haven’t had a salmon from this pool since 2016!

On the 3rd and 4th David Jenkins caught an 8.5lb and 7lber from Keepers run. Again it was 2016 since we caught a salmon there. It just shows that on a river like the Carron fish everything, keep moving and don’t get fixated by the good pools.

On the 7th David Jenkins caught a 7 lber from Gardners. He also lost a salmon in Pigeon rock.

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May 21
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Open again

Tags : Braelangwell Kyle of Sutherland River Carron Scotland spring fishing Spring Salmon springers Sutherland

At last, on the 25^th we managed to open albeit to 2 rods for the first week.

The week started off with very low water but some rain each day brought salmon into the beat. On the 29^th Henry Beckett caught his second ever salmon on his own from the Boat pool. He had lost one the night before on his last cast and this was also on his last cast before heading south. It weighed 8lb and took a cascade.

On the 30^th the river had risen overnight to minus 3” Tom Sitwell landed an 8lber from Judges.

On the 1^st Jake Warman landed 3 and lost 1. The river had risen to 0” first thing. He lost one after a brief fight in Kennel Run then landed a 9lber in Gardners and a 11lber in the tail of Contractors. In the afternoon he caught our first salmon above the Morail falls, from Tree, a lovely 8lber while trying out my 13ft Mackenzie FX1 rod. (I think he is planning to treat himself now).

I was offered the chance to fish and caught 2 salmon, one from the tail of Gardners and on from the rock on a cascade.

I think we lost around 7 salmon during the week, on for between a couple of minutes to just about the net which is a real pity but that’s fishing

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