beat overview. It was an even lovelier day if you were fishing around Kelso as thats where all the fish were caught so well done th... Monday 19th March. Rain! It was a dreich morning and in fact dreich all day. Mike Cook was on the Slap and cauld this morning and lost two decent si... Monday 26th August. It didnt stop John though as once... Monday 30th May. The River Tweed Commission’s official salmon catch figures for the 2020 season can now be revealed. What a difference a day makes in fishing, couldnt go wrong last week apart from Graham shaking them off to today when we couldnt get a pull. An overcast humid day, water temp 64 and about 2 on the gauge or thereabouts. The Lees gauge was sitting at 20 this morning and nice and clean. The Lees beat is a two mile horseshoe of the river Tweed around Coldstream. 22 42 degs and squeaky clean but only 5 landed and didnt see all that many expected more given the conditions. If you were a betting man and you were going to put money on where the only fish of the day was going to come from on a Monday at the Lees, the last pool youd bet on would be the ... Monday 21st August. Looking upstream from Cauld into Temple Saturday 22nd September
Team Hepple on for 3 days, there was a south west wind today instead of the north East making it much milder, but the water was beery and unsettled so it was going to... Monday 25th April. Marketing fishing on the River Tweed Gave the Temple a go as it had enough flow but nothing was interested, mind you we didnt see anything either. Tillmouth enjoys prolific runs of hard fighting fresh salmon throughout the Tweed’s ten-month season and its 22 main holding pools offer both good high and low water fishing. 12 and 60 degrees and nice and clean. Team Randall here for three days except Matt Randall wasnt here. The beat's position, just below the meeting of Tweed with the Ettrick Water, and the fact that for most of its 2 miles it is double bank, accounts for much of its success. It was roasty toasty this morning with the gauge showing 8 and 63 degrees. 210 and 41 degs this morning alo... Monday March 2nd As I said last week thats February out of the way and Im always glad to see the back of it. River is down to 8 on the gauge and 50 degrees. Sat on the bench at the Temple wa... Monday 15th February. Got a couple of keen local lads on tomorrow so hopefully they will find one, I did see a couple of fish head and tail in the Temple this afternoon but they will be at Kelso tomorrow. 4’5” this morning and wet but it soon cleared to leave a lovely day with blue skies and calm, the fact it was calm makes me quite calm as well. A dull damp start to the day with team Harper in attendance, it started off badly with Terry losing a fish first cast in the Cauldstream but he made it all up getting a nice fresh 10... Monday 6th June. A bright sunny warm day (why wasnt it like this in June/July?). It’s a class act that isn’t overplayed; it is just right. 18 and 46 degrees. Please note :- The river level figures are not displayed in real time and are to be used as a guide. 29 and 46 degrees with a beery tinge, two of the rods decided not to fish and two gave it a go this morning and packed... Monday 5th November. I... Monday 4th November. These conditions are not what the fish or angler wants. A blustery day with overcast skies and the odd shower. The vast majority of beat owners and agents advertise their rod availability on FishTweed and Tweed Beats which offer on-line booking in addition to a huge amount of information on latest catches, river levels, river reports, fishing tips and general advice. A nicer morning today, the grue has gone and it is a lot milder, no rods booked in today so we got on with the toilet for the hut which will be a great addition to the Lees. Team Sidoli here for the week who were all about as keen as the frost to get in about the fish. It... Monday 29th June. James Hepple and mates here for three days so not the best start, the lads stayed for the day chucking Toby spoons off the bank and a brown trout was the res... Monday 27th April Team Harper were here yesterday afternoon for the April whisky drinking competition, its a good job they have a designated driver, much colder than last week and hail/snow about wi... Monday 20th April A lovely sunny day with a light north wind, 14 and 48 degs. That said Francis Sidoli had two from the ledges in double quick time ... Monday 22nd September A bright calm warm start to the week and team Germany is here still celebrating their world cup win, these lads have fished the beat in May for years and I was hoping that thei... Monday 15th September A wet start and in fact it stayed wet for most of the day, not wet enough to put any water into the river though.
We can fish five rods comfortably. Its what it needed but its a shame for all the rods looking to fish for the next two days, it will likely fish on Wednesday but the... Monday 29th July. Only two rods on today which is just as well with the gauge showing 30 and 42 degrees and a wee bit o... Monday 4th March. Richie Gallagher had 5 good pu... Monday 1st October. 13 and 56 degrees still nice and clean. Fishing on the River Tweed. It was an almost perfect day for spring fishing, 21 and 44 degrees with the water very clean. It was rather warm for the 20th but the price to pay for all this warm weather was a gale blowing from the North West. A lovely warm summer day, perhaps a bit too warm for salmon fishing. A much colder start than of late with showers from the east but these gave way to a sunny day by mid morning. What a glorious day, it was warm sunny calm, an amazing day for February and in fact the warmest February day ever. We saw one f... Monday 14th March. Phil Fisher and team here. It was a quiet morning but Andrew managed 3 from the Annay, one was fresh but weighed in at a mighty 1lb. The heights shown are those above normal summer lows and use data collected hourly from the relevant agency's website. Here we go again, 21 and 34 degs squeaky clean and a sunny very cold day. Peter Straker-Smith Wark Common Farm Cornhill-on-Tweed TD12 4RR, Telephone: 01890 830 200 Email: peter@carham.net. Tuesday 29th 210 46 degs and much cleaner ended the day with 5 4 of which were fresh/clean biggest 15lb. Thats a bit more like it 18 landed today, it might increase as theres still a couple of rods out there fishing. 7 fish landed for the day none of them brand n... Monday 2nd September. Norfolks finest with us for three days in the shape of Paul Grewcock and wife Linda accompanied by Fliss Atherton. I cannot see why the new site should not be given a chance. A lovely sunrise with the sky all sorts of red, just a wee breeze from the west and dry. Beat 1 starts below Norham Castle and the beat’s lower limit, at the bottom of Beat 3 is just above the top of St Thomas Island near to Horncliffe village, approximately six miles inland from Berwick-upon-Tweed. A very frosty foggy morning and -5 degrees. By mid afternoon it was back up to 42 as the Teviot, Leader and Gala water were all risin... Monday 28th September. Things to do THINGS TO DO. We didnt fish on the first or second of the month as it was just too big and coloured at the Lees. Team McLaren here today who were rather successful this time last year getting 3 Springers and they didnt let the side do... Monday 15th February. A bit of a shock this morning when I looked out the front door as everything was white over with frost and a hard frost at that. A glorious autumn day on Tweedside, with not a puff of wind and clear blue skies contrary to what the weatherman said it would be. It was a glorious start to the month, not only was the weather perfect but a fish was landed at the Lees, it was a fresh 12lber and was caught after a bit of a tussle by Paul who had... Monday 22nd February. 14 on the Lees gauge and 40 degrees. Bottom Tweed - Tweedhill to Milne Graden. Anyway back to the river and its a new week... Monday 5th October A different day today the sun and calm has been replaced by light rain and wind, an upstream wind at that. Jane Douglas-Home The Lees Coldstream Berwickshire TD12 4LF, Telephone: 01890 882706 Mobile: 07597 487427 Email: theleesfishing@tweedbeats.com. Matt Randall with pals Edward Evans, Stephen Marsh Smith and Clive Roberts here for three days. Book Fishing. 28 and 42 degs but... Monday 3rd November 210 on the gauge and 46 degs and a far bit of a beery colour to it, all the rods fishing at the top end in the Temple and Cauld. A cloudy start and a good bit cooler, 6 on the gauge at the Lees and still clean, we dont seem to get the blanket weed problem now that we did a few years ago, due to the nitrate bu... Monday 25th June. 1.00pm and its lunchtime but theres nothing to r... Monday 27th October Salmon are just like buses! Colin Simpson and Mike ... Monday 26th November. Well what a day that was yesterday with storm Ciara going through, by Sunday night the gauge would have been reading if you could see it 13 feet or more, as you can imagine there... Monday 3rd February. 11 and 58 degrees with clean water at last. John and Liz Macgregor here for a couple of days al... Monday 4th November. 13 and still a tad beery, Neil Wilson and John Leatham on duty, a boil in the Slap and a couple more rises typ... Monday 26th May 22 55 degs and very brown water so I didnt hold out much hope in fact I wouldnt of fished but the lads have nothing else to do so they gave it a bit of a go just to fill in time r... Monday 19th May A lovely calm start and warm maybe too warm, 14 and 59 degs. ... Friday February 1st A wintery start to the 2019 season with grue filling the river this morning and the Lees gauge reading 13 and a water temp of 0C or 32F. We have been visited by aliens it seems and they have nicked all our fish. Usual chaos in the hut, where am I going? It was a lovely day on the river with blue skies and no wind, the Lees gauge was showing 26 and 36 degrees. 9 and 58 degrees, bit on the cool side and a wee sneaky shower or two going through. The rain had done its job to a degree at least, 11 and rising with a lot of weed right through the water column making fishing very frustrating with weed on the hook every cast. Tweedbeats includes details of accommodation and things to do in the area, as it is not always just about the fishing! The Border runs down the middle of the beat, so fish can be caught in both Scotland and England. There is a website dedicated to Tweed fishing, with details of beats, availability/prices and recent catch returns along with daily river levels. Well! A bank holiday! 10 and 46 degrees clean water. David Easty here for three days and he is the only rod on so he is spoilt for choice as to ... Monday 12th November. water temp? We started off with a flat calm and mild, warm even then by mid morning the sky turned pink with a dull yellow tinge to it... Monday 9th October. Francis was soon into a fish in the Temple and in fact he h... Monday 23rd September. James long Lees regular and candle maker to the Pope was in the Cauldstream with Paul... Monday 15th August. Upper Tweed is very water dependent but if early autumn enjoys heavy rainfall then summer salmon will enter this section of the river – with November traditionally the best month of all. Team Harper here for ten days, now thats dedication for you in February, but they need more than dedication today as its 44 and rising with wind and rain forecast but it looks ... Monday 1st February 2016. 12 on the Lees gauge and 57 degs at 8.30am I just love it! Dave had a pull i... Monday 30th July. Lees ghillie was complaining about rods on opposite English bank on his weekly blog, single figure catches this week so far , are most beats not fishing because of English rods in lockdown, unable to travel ? A warm sunny start with a stiff north westerly blowing down the river with the gauge sitting at 4 or there abouts as its off the gauge it was going to be a struggle, anyway Gen... Monday 26th Misty start but the sun was never far away, 10 and 62 degs still clean with no blanket weed floating about yet. Arou... Monday 21st May. Good news is Sally (wife) is getting better apart from being a bit breathless; I am still symptom free but have a few mo... Monday 30th March. Flies and lines sorted out and I took Phil do... Monday 18th March. Anyway 14 this morning and 56 degs w... Monday 28th July Another hot Monday, no rods today as Tony elected not to come which was a wise move. Steven Robbins with us today along with Jonathan Reddin and Dave Walker. what line? The Temple had a good number of ... Monday 14th August. Edward Evans and pals here for three days so they got stuck into it. Richard Harrison and Clancy chucked a Toby off t... Monday 12th February. 17 and 40 degrees as... Monday 23rd March. Well after the flood warning from SEPA on Saturday the river is up all of 6, it has moved the fish around a wee bit and shifted some up river as far as Boleside it seems. Throughout the salmon fishing season (1st February to 30th November) wonderful fish are caught by those who have the opportunity to cast a fly on the many beats (stretch of river). Well the thaw has set in on the lower lying ground and the river is starting to respond to the snow melt by taking on a mucky green colour. Team Harper turned up Sunday afternoonwhen I was feeding my hensand the usual Whisky drinking competition ensued in the hut, it ended up in a draw. Another miserable day with the gales being replaced by wet snow and very cold temperatures. It blew a hoolie today and the catches on the river reflected the strength of the wind, it was a north west which blows straight down the Temple and Cauld and straight up the Bags ... Monday 25th September. Today it brought us 30 on the Lees gauge with a touch of colour to the water from yesterdays rise. 14 46 degrees and squeaky clean. 8 and 50 degrees with a fair wind blowing. Its my lunch I want not an overdraft, I thought bank holidays were Christmas ... Monday 29th Never mind the fishing, I got my onion plants delivered from Yorkshire yesterday so they are now in the raised beds and Ive followed instructions to the letter, they came from John Clancy... Monday 22nd What a great start to the week 6 fish by lunchtime and a couple lost, but that was a far as our luck went; as by 2.00pm it was blowing a full gale with a big wave blowing down the Temple w... Monday 15th-- 41 and looks like milky coffee also blowing a gale, water temp has jumped to 48 degs so that should shift a few fish upstream along with the flood, more rain forecast tonight and Wedne... Monday 8th Back to east winds and even worse theres a touch of south in it, so its blowing right up the Temple and Cauld, 19 39 degs and clean. Still very beery this morning, 111 and 60 degs so we stuck on the X Raps, yes we do spin when conditions are like this. Monday 22nd February. Monday morning. Tweedbeats.com is dedicated to the River Tweed and the interests of salmon and sea trout fisherman. Jonathan Reddin got into a fish with his first cast of the day in the slap but sh... Monday 16th April. The gauge reading 26 this morning and 43 degrees squeaky clean, no rods again this week... Monday November 16th. Its lucky I ... Monday 14th September. The gauge must have been around 140 at the Lees on Saturday night/Sunday morning along with a gale which I thought was going to put my win... Monday 10th February. Did you miss me? It was like going back a month this morning, going back into winter. Now trying to remember what happened last Monday is too much for m... Monday 27th July. Team Gould here for the week and following the usual Monday morni... Monday 7th September. It was always going to be a difficult day but Rory Douglas Home was u... Monday 22nd August. Stefan who drew number one this morning was first onto the Slap croy and fish were... Monday 9th May. The first fish came on ... Monday 24th November A nice sunny start to the week and the Jeep is away in for a service so more expense. First of all I must correct a mistake in last weeks report, I reported 48 fish for the month when its actually 46, Im sure some of you sharp eyed readers would have noticed this... Monday 24th August. Popular Upper Tweed beats include Ashiestiel, Holylee, Traquair, Glenormiston and Dawyck. I wasnt expecting the wind this morning but there it was and it was from the south south/west making casting in learmouth stream a bit of a bugger more so when you put a sink tip... Monday 10th October. Spring- Well what I can say about the spring, Im not really a lover of early spring cold, flooded, blowing a gale, load... Monday- started much the same as Saturday past had finished with a big dirty river so no fishing, two of the rods had decided not to travel and two had, so Monday was spent trolling round the ta... Monday- Blowing a bit of a gale water 22 and 44 degs but clean, fished all day but only saw one clean fish, river started to rise with us by lunchtime and the fish stopped showing, not that th... Monday- 20 and 38 degrees squeaky clean and overcast its perfect but after flogging away all day we only had 2 to show for our efforts and a couple lost they just didnt seem to be there, may... Monday- started with a heavy frost but soon gave way to a lovely Autumn day with the river at 22 on the Lees gauge and water temp at 38 degs and squeaky clean, the trees along the temple bank in... Monday- Nice day slight wind, on the river not me. Well here we go again, what will this spring bring? Stuart arrived this morning to have a walk round the beat as h... Monday 21st July Following all the weather warnings over the last few days the Lees gauge this morning is showing 11 so hardly a flood situation, James Long with us for a couple of days, he couldn... Monday 14th July After a hectic weekend its back to the fishing and team Tunmore are here, Chris (Norfolks finest rat catcher) has fished the Lees as long as Ive been there and is still us... Monday 7th July Team Harper here for three days (well two of them) and despite their best efforts we blanked again, we did see a Seatrout in the Slap and maybe a Salmon but couldnt move them, b... Monday 30th June The last day of June and we had a fish to help with the figures, that puts us on 26 for the 5 months, what a thought 4 rods for 6 days a week and only 26 fish!