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Last week

(Last updated: Monday 13th May)

FishTweed saw 45 salmon and 7 sea trout reported to Gillieline for the week. Landed in the area from Tweedhill through to Boleside, Sprouston had the best? of the limited sport with 6 for the week. The four beats of Ladykirk, Sprouston, Upper Hendersyde & Tweedswood all reporting the largest at 15lb.

Monday had 12 fish reported on FishTweed from Tweedhill to Ravenswood, and Bluestone on the Whiteadder with Sprouston landing the largest for the day at 15lbs. Ford and Redscar reporting 1 sea trout each on the Till, the largest of which was 7lbs from Ford beat.
Tuesday 9 were reported from Tweedhill to Tweedswood, with Tweedswood reporting the largest at 15lbs.
Wednesday saw just 3 fish reported for the day from Tweedhill to Upper Hendersyde with Upper Hendersyde reporting the largest at 10lbs. Redscar reporting 3 sea trout, the largest of which was 3lbs.
Thursday saw 6 fish recorded, with beats from Ladykirk to Boleside mostly recording single fish for the day and the beats of Tillmouth, Sprouston and Dryburgh North all reporting the largest at 10lbs.
Friday had 7 fish recorded from Ladykirk to Lower Pavilion, with Ladykirk and Upper Hendersyde each reporting fish of 15lbs.
Saturday had 8 fish recorded from Tweedhill to Boleside, with 1 from Bluestone. The largest fish of the day were 12lbs fish reported from Upper Hendersyde and Boleside. Horncliffe reported 2 sea trout, largest of which was albs.

It was another strange week with no two days the same, just the annoying wind was constant, although it swung round from different directions, it made life difficult (which this year seems to be becoming the norm!)
As the forecast is for more colder, changeable, weather again this week, we may just be in for a bit more of the same with fish being elusive. Those fish that were there seemed reluctant to take, however with an 11lb fresh fish being taken from Tweedhill by Peter Craig on the Boat pool on the 6th and George Scholes catching a 12lb Fresh Springer on 11th May from the Meeting Pool Boleside, as well as others reported in between, the fish are obviously spread throughout the system.

Hawick Angling Club Latest Report - The weather has improved slightly with the resultant improvement in catches. Some very nice Rainbows, up to 3lbs, have been taken on Acreknowe. With the cooler water lures have been the main choice, but over the past few days fish have been rising more freely with buzzers and dry flies starting to take fish. Wulliestruther Loch has produced some good catches, mostly on worm. After a slow start Barnes and Akermoor lochs should start to fish better,but with these lochs being higher up it will probably be a week or two before fish are on the surface. The Angling club would be very interested to hear of any Brown trout caught on any of their rivers. Scale samples would also be appreciated, with the information being sent to the secretary.

Feedback from anglers this week

Horncliffe:- Description of fishery: Exceptional
Other comments: lovely days fishing, very good Ghillie, His Knowledge of beats was great, nothing to much trouble, Eric the Ghillie sorted my Spey casting out. would recommend a days fishing on this beat to everyone. 4 of us will be back in June.

Tweedhill:- Description of fishery: Very good
As always a very enjoyable day, Brian Palmer gave good advice and help all day
Ghillie customer service: Exceptional
Ghillie knowledge/advice: Exceptional

Bluestone:- Description of fishery: Very good
Ghillie customer service: Very good
Ghillie knowledge/advice: Very good
Other comments: We had a very good week on Andrews fishery, I caught a fresh sea liced salmon on the Monday of 10lbs and my companion for the week caught one of about 6lbs on the Saturday before we left. It's just a shame we don't live closer, would fish more often. Even though the water was low, plenty of fish were running. Anyone that wants good fishing at a reasonable cost should certainly give it a go and Andrew is a fine host.

In the interest of adding more content to these reports, we would be grateful if any rod/boatman/gillie etc. has any details of catches, anecdotes, pictures or experiences whilst fishing Tweed could they please contact me by e-mail at info@fishtweed.co.uk

Largest fish competition

In conjunction with Borders Gun Room of St. Boswells, FishTweed are running a competition for the largest salmon caught each month for the whole of season 2013 from the FishTweed beats. Please note that fish will only qualify, if they have been timeously reported, and the beat regularly reports catches to FishTweed. Judges ruling is final.

Beat catches reported
(week ending 11th May)
SALMON & GRILSE: Tweedhill 5, Horncliffe 1, Ladykirk 3, The Boathouse 1, Tillmouth 2, West Learmouth 1, Birgham Dub 1, Sprouston 6, Hendersyde 4, Upper Hendersyde 3, Junction 1, Lower Makerstoun 1, Upper Makerstoun 1, Rutherford 1, Dryburgh North 1, Bemersyde 2, Ravenswood 1, Tweedswood 2, Lower Pavilion 3, Middle Pavilion 1, Boleside 2, BlueStone 2.
Total: 45 Largest: Ladykirk & Sprouston & Upper Hendersyde & Tweedswood 15lbs
SEA TROUT: Horncliffe 2, Ford 1, Redscar 4.
Total: 7 Largest: Ford 7lbs
TROUT: None reported

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Season so far

The number of fish recorded on the FishTweed website during February were 149. The largest being 18lbs recorded by Birgham Dub. During the month of February, there have been fish recorded from Tillmouth in the Lower Tweed to Boleside at the junction with the Ettrick. The majority of fish have however been recorded in the area between Lower North Wark and Juntion, with Birgham Dub leading the way with 24 so far this season. With cold easterly winds and low temperatures, we need the river to warm up and a little fresh water to encourage the new fish to travel the rivers.
The number of fish recorded on the FishTweed website during March was 140 and for April 191 were reported, the largest of which was a 34lb fish taken from Junction.
With cold easterly winds and low temperatures, we need the river to warm up and a little fresh water to encourage the new fish to travel the rivers.
For 2012 season, the River Tweed Commission released its figures for the river as a whole in early March 2013 at their AGM.

Salmon
14,556 Salmon were reported caught in 2012 (20,836 in 2011) of which 1,371 (4,154) were
caught by nets and 13,185 (16,682) by rod and line. 65%, 8,581 fish, of the total rod catch was returned (68%, 2011). Both nets and rods caught significantly fewer fish than the previous five-year averages being 3,968 and 16,081 respectively. However 2012 produced the second highest catch of Spring Salmon in the last 30 years, with the catch more evenly spread over the first three months of the season in this year.

Sea-Trout
3,314 Sea-trout were reported caught in the 2012 season (5,608 in 2011), of which 1,162 were by net and 2,152 by rod. The net catch was very low, and particularly so for the river nets (371). As with Salmon, the net catch was significantly below the previous five-year average catch of 3,737. 949 (44%) rod-caught Sea-trout were retuned in the year; this compares with 34% in 2011.

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