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This week was a little quieter than expected as there were enough fish about and conditions were on the most part fairly good apart from a few stormy hours on Friday morning but the fish didn't seem to switch on at all for us, however we did manage 2 salmon and 3 grilse for our week. John Webb landed the largest at 14lb from the Malt Steep on Saturday. There seems to be a bit of a theme this season with anglers managing to land fish on their birthdays, so this week it was Jeff Hatton celebrating his 68th birthday on Friday and landing a 12lb er in Glister on an Orange & Purple (OAP). Happy birthday Jeff.

The coming week looks to be mixed with some rain most days, cloudy with an odd blink of sun and getting cooler from mid week.

Still chance to get a last throw before the season ends so get in contact with Sarah to book.

Cheers Brian

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The past week started off looking quite promising with an early morning frost and quite a few fish about. Success came on Monday after a few years of trying for Belinda Elliot Dawes who managed to get her first Dee fish, a 5lb grilse in the Cottage. The next fish landed was on Wednesday by Craig Lunn in Upper Ferroch and was also a 5lb grilse. It was then looking like we were going to have a quiet week but Saturday the fish did switch on and 7 were landed, all between 5lb and 10lb. Jon Robb landed his very first salmon, a 5lb grilse in Middle Ferroch with Harry Marshall landing another 2 from the same pool later in the day. The other 4 were split evenly between father and son duo Mark and Lewis Blair with Lewis landing the 10lb er. All fish landed were on Francis patterns. 

The week ahead looks to be getting a good bit colder with wind and some heavy scattered showers coming from a Northerly direction.

We have limited availability now until the end of the season so please get booked in as soon as possible to have your last cast before the season finishes on 15th October.

Cheers Brian

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A much more settled river this past week with the height on Monday sitting at at 1' 10" and finishing on Saturday at 1' 7". The water temperatures have been gradually falling and it seems to have helped our catches with 9 salmon and 6 grilse landed for the week with some good fish in the 16 to 17lb bracket. Mark Blair who had his 50th birthday fishing the beat landed the largest of the week at 18lb from the Cottage on a Red Francis. Other successful flies were Ally Shrimps, Cascades and Sunrays.

The week ahead looks to be mostly cloudy with showers but a band of rain is expected coming from the west late Wednesday into early Thursday.

We have limited availability now to the end of the season so please check our website for the latest availability and get booked in as soon as possible to avoid disappointment. 

Cheers Brian

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Well we finally got rain and plenty of it with the change that came last weekend and so the river was fairly dirty and unsettled at the start of the week, peaking at over 9ft early on Wednesday but gradually it started to drop as the day went on. It was to be Thursday before we landed anything with 6 landed up to 15lb. Friday a grilse and a sea trout were landed. On Saturday we landed 4 to 14lb and a seatrout. Notable catches were Grahame Reid with 4 fish on Thursday, Graham Lee landing his first Cairnton fish and Gary Craig also landing his first Cairnton fish. Favoured flies this week were Brown Pot Bellied Pigs, Cascades and Allys Shrimps. This coming week is looking pretty good but we do have another band of heavy rain coming through later this evening but once settled should have good conditions for the rest of the week. 

We have some availability over the last few weeks of the season so book now for your last cast on the Dee of 2022. 

Cheers Brian

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Last week saw the return of Kim Michelsens party from Denmark and they got off to a pretty good start on Monday as Kim landed a 9lb Salmon on a March Brown and Per Larsen landed 3 grilse on a Blue Charm. Per also managed a grilse on Tuesday and Wednesday also on Blue Charms. Kim's party were unlucky not to land a few more with other fish being lost but they also caught 4 sea trout for the week. Over on the Middle Blackhall bank saw Benny Johansson and his friend Anders from Sweden back on Deeside and although they fished hard and had a few fish on unfortunately none were landed  

The week ahead looks to be dry with a mixture of sunshine and cloud and an easterly breeze with some rain coming in by Friday and Saturday.

We have rods available this week and next so please get in touch if you would like to book. All availability is listed on our website with details on how to book. 

Cheers Brian

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It started off looking a bit dire at the beginning of last week due to low water again but by Tuesday things were looking up with the river rising and by end of play it had gone up over 1ft which helped us for the rest of the week. The end result was 2 salmon, 10 grilse and 4 sea trout landed and a few lost also. The Goodchild family, who were fishing all week on both banks, all had fish with varying weights up to 10lb on a fair mixture of flies, the most being on Silver Stoats, Ally's Shrimps and a few on the Dee Sheep. Special mention has to go to George Goodchild landing the beats 100th fish of the season, a lovely 10lb er in Kelpie on Thursday.

The forecast for the coming week looks to be reasonably dry with cloud and sunny intervals.

We have available rods over the first couple weeks in September on Cairnton. Get in touch to book now. All rod availability can be viewed on our website along with details on how to book  

www.cairnton.co.uk

Cheers Brian

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Thankfully we don't get many spells of weather like the one we have been experiencing. Hopefully the high air & water temperatures and blistering sunshine day after day comes to an end soon and if the forecast is correct we should be getting heavy rain & thunder storms in the upper river catchment late tonight with some rain and cooler temperatures for the next couple of days. However back to the fishing, it has been very hard going for our anglers who put in a good effort and still managed to keep a smile on their faces with the odds against them. Concentrating the fishing hours to very early mornings and late evenings produced 2 sea trout for the week, a 4 pounder for Bryan Whittaker and a 2.5 pounder for Ross Macdonald.

All rod availability is listed on our website as usual. www.cairnton.co.uk/fishing-availability.php

Cheers Brian