#springsalmon Archives - Braelangwell Lodge

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May 23
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Week of the 14th of May

Tags : #catchandrelease #flyfishing #flyonly #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Kyle of Sutherland Salmon Salmon fishing Scotland

Again the forecast was wrong, so we had very little water for the week except for a small rise midweek.

Despite the low water fish were seen running in various places. On the 17th Jonty Goodchild caught 2, 1 from the neck of the Washerwoman and 1 from the Rock. Both on a quarter-inch tungsten red Francis weighing 10 and 12lb.

On the 18th Peter Jones caught an 11lb salmon from the Washerwoman and Tim Cross caught an 8lber from the Rock. ” other fish were lost.

Gruinards caught 4 with a further 3 from Glencalvie. Most of the fish were fresh if not sea liced.

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May 23
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Week of the 8th May

Tags : #flyfishing #flyonly #springfishing #springsalmon Braelangwell Fishing Kyle of Sutherland Salmon fishing Scotland

Yet again we were forecast rain but yet again it didn’t materialise.

On the 8th with minus 11″ on the gauge, Rick Verbeeten landed a 7lb salmon from the Washerwoman on a 10 Red Ally.

The river came up on the 11th and was very dirty. At 5 am it was 9 inches dropping to -4″ by 7.30 pm. 5 salmon were caught, all from the Morail.

Dave Barnfield started the ball rolling with the first grilse of the season at 6.30am. Roger Brackpool caught an 11lb salmon just before lunch carrying long tail lice. Between 5.15pm and 7.15pm Dave Barnfield, Alan Lutman and Dave Bell caught 1 each. This was Dave Bells first salmon at 9lb. All were returned safely.

Throughout the week salmon were seen running with bow waves appearing in various pools along with them going over the Morail falls and the falls at the Steps pool on Amat which was encouraging.

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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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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 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 22
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April

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April started really well with 13 springers in the book to the Alston party. in the week of the 3rd . They also had Gruinards where they caught 16 and some fishing on Dounie where they had another 5. The water height was running from 5ft 3 twice to 6 inches.

The water fell away but the next week the 11th of April 5 springers were landed to the Campbell party including a first-ever to Hilary Campbell.

In the week of the 18th of April, the Arkwright party landed 1 salmon from Pigeon rock to Jack Cooke-Hurle. The water height was down to minus 6″ on the gauge. This was the first salmon above the Morail falls. The water temperature was 51f. It has been warm enough for fish to get over the Morail falls since the end of the week of the 3rd of April which is very unusual.

The week of the 25th of April saw the water height down to minus 11″. One salmon was landed from Gardners to Alasdair Mackie on a micro Sunray double. Two other fish were hooked on Gardners but didn’t stick.

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Jun 21
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Spring 2021

Tags : #atlanticsalmon #catchandrelease #fishingholiday #flyfishing #rivercarronsutherland #salmonfishing #scottishhighlands #springfishing #springsalmon #sutherland

The spring started very cold with the early fish seemingly reluctant to run to Braelangwell. This resulted in good sport on the beats below. We don’t have the exact figures in but there must have been over 30 springers caught off the river to the end of March. Braelangwell caught 3 of them.

We caught 7 for April which was quite a dry month and so between that and covid restrictions this wasn’t too bad.

May saw some really good fishing with 65 salmon landed and a good many lost. Looking back through the book over the last 10 years the catches were right up there which is really encouraging considering a good many places are seeing a decline in stocks. 2011 was the best year with 106 salmon to the end of May with 66 for May, then 2013 with 75 salmon to the end of May, and 52 for May.

We will not know how many salmon were caught off the river to the end of May until the end of the season but with the beats lower down doing well at the start and then fishing steadily the rest of the spring we should have a respectable total

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May 21
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Week of the 24th May

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On Monday we were washed off with the river peaking at about 7.5 feet.

Tuesday saw the river running at 3ft first thing and dropping nicely but it rose later in the day to about 4ft 9 Hamish Godman-Dorington landed 4 salmon before 9.30 from the Boat pool and Jamie Ellis also caught an 8lber from the Boat pool. Upstream, Archie Godman-Dorington caught a fine 16lber from the Morail and Tom Denman caught a 10lber also from the Morail. In the evening Peter O’Neil came over from the Oykel, he caught a 8lber from the Rock and lost a decent fish in Gardners. By this time the river was running at 4ft.

9 salmon were landed on Wednesday. With the river running at a foot it was perfect. Archie Godman-Dorington caught 4 to his rod. Two came from the Morail at 8 and 12lb, one from Gardners and one from Gardners run, all three were about 8lb. Richard Fisher and Benjamin Gibbons caught their first salmon. Richard’s came from Lower Craigs weighing 7.5lb and Benjamin’s came from Gruinards run weighing 8lb. Richard Hawke also caught an 8lber from Gruinards run. Jamie Ellis caught a 10lber from Kennel run and Hamish Godman-Dorington sea lived 10lber from the Bank.

Thursday saw a huge change in the weather from cool spring to summer. One fish was caught. Jamie Reynolds caught his first fish from the Boat pool weighing 6lb. The river was down to minus 2.

No more fish were caught on the last couple of days.

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