Fen Howieson with his fresh run, sea-liced 9lb Salmon, caught at The Tail of The Island 20/04/11

Malcolm Bennett caught a 6lb fresh run, sea-liced salmon on Thursday 05/05/11

Malcolm from Somerset, caught his 6lb fresh run, sea -liced silver Salmon in Sarah’s Spot ,at the bottom of The Otterstone Pool, on a size 6 Cascade.

As regulars to the beat will know, we present a Trophy every year, for the biggest fish landed during the season.  Mr Malcolm Bennett, from Somerset, who landed and returned a Silver 22lb Salmon during his visit in August 2010, presently holds the Dalguise Trophy.

Angus McFadyen caught 9lb Salmon, Thursday 28th April.

The Sea-liced 9lb Salmon was caught from The Casting Platform, top of Bridge Pool, on a floating Devon Minnow, in the evening. Well done Angus.

7lb Salmon caught on Thurs 21st ,Neck of Otterstone Pool

Alistair Nellis caught a Silver, sea-liced 7ib cock Salmon on Thursday 21/04/11 in The Neck of the Otterstone Pool, in the morning on a black flying ‘c’ , well done.

9lb Salmon caught on Wednesday 20/04/11 Tail of Island

Fen Howieson caught a lovely 9lb Salmon on Wednesday 20th April 2011.

The Salmon was a fresh run, silver, sea-liced fish, weighing 9lb.

It was caught by Fen in the afternoon at The Tail of The Island.

Fen was using a floating line with a 10ft fast sinking poly leader.

The Salmon was caught on a size 6 Cascade.

Very well done Fen, congratulations.

Fen Howison’s 9lb Salmon caught 20/04/11 Tail of Island

There were quite a few Salmon showing in all the pools at Dalguise

yesterday, there seem to be more coming up the river now.

Fen Howieson relaxing at the fishing hut 20/04/11

Neil Dyson from Preston had a great day at Dalguise. In the morning he lost a Salmon on a floating devon in the Otterstone Pool, but by the afternoon he had safely landed two 12lb Springers in The Guay Pool both on an orange flying ‘c’. These were the first two Springers he has ever caught, well done.

Neil Dyson from Preston 12lb Salmon, his first ever Springer ,The Guay Pool, 05/04/11

Three other fish were lost in the afternoon,

Neil Dyson with his second ever Springer, again 12lb from The Guay Pool, one hour later 05/04/11

Two Salmon were caught in The Otterstone Pool on Saturday 2nd April 2011.

In the morning, Dalguise regular, Bob Barclay caught a Beautiful 18lb Salmon on a flying bucktail, his first from Dalguise this season.

Bob Barclay safely returning his Salmon 02/04/11

Bob Barclay with his 18lb Salmon caught in The Otterstone Pool, on a flying bucktail 02/04/11

In the afternoon, George Inglis caught a 7lb Salmon on his first visit to Dalguise, also on a flying bucktail and also in The Otterstone Pool. Both fish were safely returned.

Well done to you both.

Osprey catching a Trout

The first Osprey has been seen fishing at Dalguise today, Thurdsay 31st March 2011.

At 10.30am The Osprey arrived for a spot of breakfast and after successfully catching a trout in the flats above the casting platform,  landed on the croy in the Bridge Pool to enjoy his catch. The Ospreys arrived earlier in the week in Perthshire, but this is the first time we have seen them fishing on the beat. We look forward to their daily visits over the coming weeks.

 Wednesday 2nd March 2011

Beautiful 17lb Salmon caught today, picture by Robin Ade

 Mike Stanners catches a 17lb Salmon in The Tail of The Otterstone Pool, on a Gary dog tube fly. It was a beautiful sunny day and there were lots of fish showing, it was 1.8 m height on  the water guage. Mike also lost another Salmon the same day.

 There seem to be a lot of fish coming into the beat, so don’t wait to book, as rods are going fast.

Otterstone Pool

Another memorable day at Dalguise by  Mike Stanners

“The day began in the Otterstone Pool. I started fishing half way between the Rowan Tree and the Bench. I was approaching the big stone that lies across from the Bench, it is a known lie, when a fish took the fly. A few tugs and it was off, I was pretty disappointed. When I inspected the line I discovered that the braided loop had parted company with the fly line, oh bother ! I retooled and went back to work.

At the height the water was at on Wed it allowed me good access and so I waded into the pool just below the Bench to cover across towards the channel on the left bank. By this time I was using a 2″ Garry Dog-ish Al tube. I worked my way down keeping out from the Major’s Stone. I was still pretty far across the pool when I was approaching the reachable bottom part of the Otterstone. Here there is a large ‘V’ created by a collection of boulders.  I cast across to the other side of the ‘V’ and let the fly fish round and down almost onto the dangle, the line stopped just on the other side of the ‘V’, thinking I had snagged the boulders I tugged, nothing happened. As started to put more pressure on the line to try and free the fly out of the snag, the snag started to move off across the current and down. The fish then turned down stream and went quickly away from me towards an area I knew I could not follow.  From then on it was a fight of endurance, I worked the fish back up towards me 5 or 6 times and each time it turned and went back down. Frustration was becoming a major factor, I was beginning to think that I foul hooked it. Eventually after about 25mins I managed to get it across to me and brought it into the top of the Nursery where I managed to glide it up to the stones, I think it was by this stage pretty tired, as I was, my right shoulder was very sore from the sheer effort of putting pressure on the fish. It lay quietly whilst I extracted the fly, one hook into the middle of the lower jaw, probably confirms it took on the dangle or from behind. After removing the hook I held in the current until it revived. It was superb example of a Tay Springer deep and well formed, I estimated 17lbs. It was a solid lump of silver, hard as nails, no lice, and no marks. I am back on Wed fishing looking for more action. Watch this space.”

Thank you very much to Mike for sending this report of his exciting days fishing at Dalguise and look forward to reporting many more. Very well done with your Salmon Mike.