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Jun 17
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Week of the 5th of June

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

After a long dry spell the river rose on Tuesday. On the rise with the gauge at minus 6 Mike Burge caught 1 at 9lb in the Morail then with plus 6 inches John Knott caught 1 at 7lb in Gardners run.The river carried on rising to about 5ft during the night.
On Wednesday, with 3ft on the gauge three were caught, all by Paul Birch, 1 from Boat and 2 from Bank weighing 12, 4 and 9lb.
On Thursday with the river down to minus 3 another 3 were caught, 1 to Mike Burge from Lower Craigs weighing 8lb, 1 to Paul Birch from Boat also weighing 8lb and 1 to John Collins from the Washerwoman weighing 15.5lb.
Friday saw a rising river, at 2 inches John Knott had 1 from the Morail, Paul Birch had 1 from the Boat David Noden had 1 from the Washerwoman and at 6 inches John Collins had 1 from Burnmouth.
On Saturday with minus 3 on the gauge 3 were caught, all weighing 12lb. 2 came from Lower Craigs to John Knott and Mike Burge and 1 from Gardners to Paul Birch.
We are not seeing many fish but 16 for the week is a good start to June. No sign of any sea-trout yet but it was quite cold at night in fact we had a frost one night.

30
Apr 17
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Week of the 24th April

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers Sutherland

Braelangwell has had its best April since 2000 with 35 landed. Even although the early springers went over the Morail falls at the start of April we have been seeing a lot of fish throughout the beat, particularly in Gardners, Rock and Boat. Most of the fish are in the 6lb to 9lb class but an odd bigger one is jumping and we can expect the big May fish any day now. Gruinards have caught 34 so a season total between ourselves and Gruinards of 70 salmon from the water we share is very good.

We had good water throughout the week with the levels between 1’6″ and minus 2″. Braelangwell landed 10 for the week, Gruinards, opposite had 13, Dounie had 10, we hear Cornhill had 7 and Amat had 3. Without knowing what came off the other 2 beats 43 salmon for the week isn’t bad at all.

On Monday we had 3, Dr Stuart Grey caught 1 in Gruinards run and Jerry Alexander caught 2, 1 in Washerwoman and 1 in Lower Craigs.
On Tuesday 2 were caught, both to Dr David Jenkins.1 from the Tree pool and 1 from the Bank. Tuesday was bitterly cold with heavy snow showers all day.
Thursday also saw us catch 2 salmon, 1 from Gardners to Dr Stuart Grey and 1 to Dr David Jenkins from Kennel run. There was a lot of friendly banter going back and forward across the river as Gruinards caught 7 on Thursday !!
3 were caught on Saturday morning, 1 to Dr Jenkins in Kennel run then Jerry Alexander had 2, 1 in Gardners and 1 in Boat.

15
Apr 17
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Week of the 10th of April

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers Sutherland

Monday started with low water but the river started rising on Tuesday due to heavy rain. Colin Campbell got Lady Valerie Gilmour’s party off the mark with 6lb fish from the Morail followed by an 8lber to Peter Crawfurd. The river was rising quickly by then and rose 6 inches while he played the fish.
On Wednesday the river was on 1’6″, back from over 5ft overnight. Mr Scott-Demster caught 3 from the Morail, best 12lb. Lady Valerie Gilmour and Peter Crawfurd also caught 1 each in the Morail and Colin Campbell caught 1 in the Rock pool. 6 for a day in April and 3 to a rod are not bad.
Thursday saw 3 added to the book. Elisabeth McInnes caught 1 in Gardners, Judith Campbell caught 1 in the Morail and Lady Gilmour had 1 from the Rock. The river was running at 6 inches.
Friday saw 4 caught, Colin Campbell and Lady Gilmour had 1 each from Gruinards run, Mr Strang-Steel had 1 from the Scarp and Judith Campbell had 1 from the Rock pool. The river was at minus 2.
Saturday saw strong wind and heavy showers again, the river was back up to 6″ and there was also fresh snow on the hills. The only fish of the day came to Peter Crawfurd in the Gardners pool weighing 7lb.
This gives us 16 springers for the week and considering the wind we had to put up with we are very pleased with that.

12
Apr 17
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Week of the 3rd April

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers

The Godman-Dorington party suffered from very low water all week.
Despite this, on the 4th Archie Godman-Dorington caught a 6lb salmon in the Washerwoman on a Monkey then on the 6th Thomas Denman caught his first ever salmon from the Neck of the Morail. It weighed 8lb and took an Ally shrimp.

02
Apr 17
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River report

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Highlands Kyle of Sutherland Kyle of Sutherland Fisheries River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers

We suffered from lowish water everyday bar Saturday when the river rose overnight Friday to about a foot. Unfortunately, by the morning it was back to 0 on the gauge.
Olly Alston caught the only fish off Braelangwell on Saturday afternoon, a 7lber from the Morail.
The party also had the Gledfield beat and a beat on Dounie where they caught 2 salmon.
Three salmon came off the Cornhill beat and we hear Amat had their first of the season. We suspected a fish would come from above the Morail as the water temp reached 48c for the first time this year enabling the fish to go over the Morail falls.
Although catches are slow quite a lot of fish were showing this week which is encouraging.

12
Mar 17
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River report

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland River Carron Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers

We had reasonable water all week with some gales thrown in midweek.
Finlay had the first fish off Braelangwell on Wednesday weighing 7lb from the Morail. Gruinards had 2, 1 from Kennel Run and 1 from the Boat pool. There was at least another 4 off the beats lower down taking the river total to a minimum of 14.

11
Jan 17
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Opening day

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Fishing Kyle of Sutherland River Carron Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers spring fishing springers

The fishing season opened today on the Kyle of Sutherland rivers but we doubt there will be much to report as the whole area has suffered from gales since last night.
Finlay did go down and put a fly through the Morail first thing, he caught a grilse and sea trout kelt.
The river was running at 2ft and the water temp was 39f.

14
Aug 16
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Week of the 8th August

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

Monday started with 4ft6 on the gauge and the water was cooler with the Northwest wind. By late afternoon we were down to 18″. John McCulloch caught a fresh grilse of 4lb in Contractors and then an 18lber just before the tree’s at the tail of the Washerwoman.
On Tuesday Three grilse were landed, one to Christopher Lees-Jones in Upper Craigs and two more to John McCulloch from Charlies and Gardners.
Wednesday looked promising with minus 3 on the gauge, 2 fish were caught by the host Paul Gardner, one in Millers weighing 14lb and a grilse from Margarets. Wednesday also saw our first morning with frost first thng.
Thursday saw the river rise all morning peaking at about 4ft6 but dropped quickly. Rex Wilkinson hit the tail of Millers right landing 4 between 5pm and 5.40pm weighing 14lb,12lb,8lb and 4lb all from the same spot. Paul Gardner also caught a 13lber in Contractors.
Saturday started with 2ft3 on the gauge, again Millers produced a 16lb salmon to Philip Gardner.

25
Jul 16
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Week of the 17th July

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

The Wingfield-Digby party caught 6 grilse and 2 seatrout for their week. Alex Wingfield-Digby was top rod with 4 of them. His wife Emma, caught one in Burnmouth that was tagged, it had the number 61 on it. This fish was caught in Charlie’s on the 17th of June by Andy MacInnes.
The fishing was hard going, you had to work hard for a fish which i hear is the case on the Oykel too but Gruinards, opposite caught 12 for the week and i hear an angler on Amat had 4 one evening so the fish were there.

22
Jul 16
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Update

Tags : Braelangwell Carron Kyle of Sutherland River Carron Salmon fishing Scotland Scottish rivers

After the spectacular thunderstorms the air cleared and at last we had some water yesterday. The river had peaked at just under 3ft and was just under 1ft6 first thing. 4 salmon were caught for Wednesday along with a couple of seatrout.