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    Oct 18
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Last 2 weeks of the season

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The Jupp party arrived for the week of the 17th September with high hopes with a forecast full of rain for a change. They weren’t disappointed catching 27 salmon for their week. The best day produced 12, 5 to Alan Lutman’s rod. The river was running from 1’6″ down to 6″ and the water temp had dropped to 50f putting the fish on the take.
Top rod for the week was Alan Lutman with 7 then Stewart Walker with 5. Stuart also had the best fish of the week with a 20lber from Gruinards run. The party also take Dounie which is a beat further down the Carron where they caught 12 for their week there.
We also hear there were over 80 salmon caught between the 2 Amat beats above us giving the river a total of over 150 for the week.

The week of the 24th produced 9 and a couple of sea-trout for the Miller party. They had similar conditions but the fish weren’t quite as enthusiastic to take a fly. The host, Paddy Miller caught 4 for the week with 3 of them on Monday.

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    Sep 18
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Week of the 10th September

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Finally, we got some long needed rain and some cooler weather.
The Arkwright party caught 19 for their week which is very good but was also very hard work. It was very much a fishing holiday rather than a holiday with some fishing and if it was the latter nowhere near as many fish would have been caught. For instance, the Washerwoman was fished regularly during the day but Johnny Younger went down at about 7pm and had 2 one after the other which summed the week up perfectly. We could go for hours without a fish then a couple straight away.
The water peaked at about 3ft which was the highest since before the season started and was therefore very dirty. Both Tom Arkwright and Jake Cooke-Hurle caught 4 each, Tom’s best 12lb in the Washerwoman and Jack’s 6lb in Contractors. Neil Dixon had 3 from the Morail and the best fish of the week at 15lb. We also had 2 first ever salmon, both were from Burnmouth. Laura Boscawen’s was 12lb and Louisa Dixon’s was a 3lb grilse.

We have not heard much about catches off the rest of the river but Glencalvie estate had a beat on Amat where they had caught just over 30 by Wednesday night.

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    Sep 18
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Week of the 28th August

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Yet again the forecasters promised us rain but despite the neighboring Oykel rising to near 3ft we just made it to 0″ on our gauge. Saying that it was the highest it’s been since Aril. I have had a look back through the book and this drought started on the 24th of April when the gauge went below 0″ Since then we have caught 62 salmon and grilse. Only 4 salmon have been caught with the gauge above 0″ the other 58 were below 0″

The Benson party caught 3 grilse for their week. George himself caught a fresh grilse in the Morail on the monday then Mr D Gibson caught 2 on the 29th, One in the Lower Craigs and one in Ronnies.
The party also had the Gledfield beat where they also caught 3. One of which was 16lb

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    Aug 18
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Week of the 19th August

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Well, what can we say other than despite the forecast promising rain most days last week it never really came to much.
On the Friday the river rose a foot to minus 6 equaling the highest the river has been since the week of the 17th of June!!! Stuart Dawson caught a 7lb salmon in Upper Craigs. We had another rise in water in the evening giving us 0 on the gauge on Saturday morning. 2 fish were caught, Stuart Dawson caught his second, a 12lber from the Field and the host Iain Ogdon caught a grilse of 5lb on the Morail.
We hear there was around 11 salmon caught from Amat last week. Some of them were fresh.

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    Aug 18
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Catch up

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The experts have been saying that the summer of 2018 has been one of the driest on record, certainly since 1976. The Carron has been no exception with the last proper rain falling around the last week of May and the water temp reaching 73f in July, unsurprisingly there was very little fishing done at Braelangwell. Some parties didn’t fish at all which certainly the best thing for the salmon and we must thank the tenants for showing restraint.
Only one grilse was landed for July which was caught on the back of a small rise on the 21st. Stephen Wingfield-Digby caught the 4lb fish in the Washerwoman.
On the 4th of August, Oly Ward caught a 4lb grilse, again in the Washerwoman on another small rise. On the 5th the river rose to around minus 6 during the night which was the highest the river had been since the week of the 17th of June !! The following day, with the river back to minus 10 we caught 3, two to C Rees-Jones from the Washerwoman and one to Andrew Thorley from the Rock pool.
We are due rain this week so fingers crossed.

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    May 18
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Week of the 20th May

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The Griffiths party caught 4 salmon for their week.
Apart from a brief rise in the water on the 21st the water was low. Hugo Griffiths caught 2 salmon, one on Monday from the Neck of the Morail when the river started to rise and the second on Tuesday morning from the Morail itself. The first was 8lb and the second 9lb.
The party had several people in it that could not fish so had hired David Mateer, a casting instructor to help them. He managed to get two of them their first fish. Charlie Walker caught his in the Lower Craigs first thing on Wednesday morning weighing 6lb and Ed Dennis caught his late in the day from Gardners also weighing 6lb.
All were returned.

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    May 18
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Week of the 13th May

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The Sloss party were plagued with low water all week so did very well to catch 8 salmon.
Top rod was Rob Sloss with 3. He had 1 from Contractors on the 14th on a small Collie then 2 on the 14th, one from Gardners on a micro red Francis cone and on from the neck of the Morail on a small red Francis cone. They weighed 8, 7 and 11lb.
Hugo Denee caught 2 for his short visit to Braelangwell. Both before breakfast, one from Gardners and one from Rock weighing 8 and 7lb.
James Preston, Rob Gould and Charlie Arden all had one each all from the Rock pool. Two were caught on a half inch collie and one on a 12 Park shrimp.
The height was between minus 9 and minus 15″ all week.

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    May 18
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Week of the 7th May

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The Jupp party were plagued with low water all week but managed 5 salmon between them.
On the 7th with minus 6″ on the gauge three were landed and another was lost at the net. James Prior landed his first ever salmon from the Washerwoman weighing 9lb. He also lost the fish at the net in Gardners. Roger Brackpool caught an 8lber from Lower Craigs and Rick Verbeeten caught an 11lber from the Washerwoman.
On the 9th Roger caught a second salmon from Charlies weighing 6lb.
On Saturday morning at 7.40am Nick Jupp caught an 8lber from Gardners which was covered in long tail sea lice. The gauge was on minus 11″

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    May 18
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Week of the 30th April

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Last week we had our best April week since 1980 catching 22 salmon for the week so expectations were high. The river had dropped away but was still ok. We caught 7 for the week and also lost several.
Steven Wade started his week with his first ever salmon from Gardners run. He then caught another from Contractors on Wednesday.
On the 1st Robin Minter-Kemp caught a 10lb salmon on a collie from Keepers and Chris Higham caught an 8lb salmon from Judges.
On the 4th Dick Threlfall caught a 10lber from Pigeon rock on a Kyley.
On the 5th Paul Welling had an 8lber from Gardners and Chris Higham finally caught a salmon skating a collie in the Washerwoman.
Considering the water peaked at minus 3″ and was off the bottom of the gauge one day we didn’t do badly.

Having a rough count of salmon caught off the river to the end of April we think no fewer than 210 were landed. We must have had some of the best fishing anywhere.

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    Apr 18
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Week of the 16th April

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Professor Gilmore’s party saw the end of the snowmelt that has kept the river at a very good height for the last 5 or so weeks. They caught 5 salmon for their week but it was hard going as fish still seemed reluctant to run up to the middle of the river.
On the 18th Professor A T Elder caught a 9lb salmon in Contractors. Some fish were obviously running as a fish rose and then pulled the fly in Macallan. Gruinards also caught a salmon with long tail lice in Bank.
On the 19th Alasdair Mackie caught a 10lb salmon from the Rock pool. This fish must have had some kind of encounter on it’s way to being caught as it had considerable scale loss and it was only played for 3 or 4 minutes before it came in. Jerry Alexander caught a very strong salmon from Kennel run weighing 10lb
On the 21st Jerry caught 2 more fish and lost 1 in quick succession. 1 came from Gardners and 1 from Rock, both on a Sunray Shadow.
The river stayed around the 9″ mark all week but dropped to minus 4 on Saturday. We haven’t heard much from the rest of the river but there was a minimum of 10 caught.

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