A tough week!!

  A fish with long tailed sealice caught by John Lawson in the Flats pool Ballogie

With the continuing drought we are suffering on Deeside it's still amazes me to see some decent catches, 6 at Ballogie last week with the majority of fish with sealice combined with 2 from Carlogie and 1 from Commonty made this a good week considering. Ballogie has had it's best March since I took over as head ghillie and with a week to go hopefully the other 2 beats will beat their 5 year averages.
 With no sign of rain till this weekend, it will again be hard going but with lots of fish showing in the pools theres always a good chance if you fish sensibly, small rods, light lines and Small flies.

                                  A casualty of the very low conditions

Please remember that in the current conditions the fish are under a great deal of stress, so play them hard and get them back into the water as quickly as possible, try to keep them in the water and move them out into the more streamier water so they can recover faster before releasing them.