Cramond Angling Club

Following the high water of recent weeks the river has dropped of nicely, currently running about 4″ above Summer Lever and the clarity is good.  Water Temperature jumped following the warm spell from 44 to 50 Fahrenheit.

Good to see a return to catching, with Brown Trout and Sea Trout being reported this week, I’d suggest this has something to do with the warmer conditions.  With the coming of a new moon we’re beginning to see the return of the “high tides”, with 5m plus tides.

We have a work party this Sunday, meeting at 08:00 at the Cammo Entrance to Grotto Bridge.  The plan is to remove the Willow that has formed an island on Beat 2, which is causing erosion of both banks.  This is probably going to be an all day job, so even if you can only make a couple of hours then please pop along.  Chef Marko will as usual be turning the raw food we bring into a BBQ delight!

Tight Line

Updated 3rd April

The River is running about 3′ (foot) above Summer Level(SL) and clarity is poor.  The tides are good at the moment with the full moon today, so today brings a 5.29m tide.

The River has been unfishable all week, running high and coloured.

Tuesday 6th April – SEPA are hosting a Kick Sampling session at Almondell Country Park at 10:00 – 13:00 if you interested then drop me an E Mail treasurer@fishalmond.co.uk

The Raffle for the 2 rods on the Tummel is shortly coming to an end, see the Outings Page for more details.

Tight Lines

Updated 25/03/2010

The River is running about 4″ above Summer Level and water clarity is good, water temperature is now 45 fahrenheit.

A very quiet week so far with no reports of fish landed.  Today has brought some rain and by the look of the River tonight, I’d expect another couple of inches on the board and a hint of colour.  This may encourage some silver tourists into the system.  Brown Trout fishing is still slow and I can only put this down to the cold weather, it’s likely you’d need to be fishing on the bottom to make contact, that said some Olives are beginning to appear around midday and this should start to encourage some movement.

Please note that the 2010 Outings have been added to the site, with information regarding booking.  There are now under 70 Season Tickets still available.

Tight Lines.

Updated 19/03/2010

The River is running about 5″ above Summer Level and water clarity is good, water temperature is now 46 fahrenheit.

This week marks the start of the Brown Trout Season, so hopefully we’ll have a few rods on the River today and some new photo’s of this seasons Brownies.  At the current time of writing we’re beginning to see Sea Trout appearing in the catches, with fish hooked and lost and hooked and landed!  On Wednesday we had a cracking 4lb Sea Trout and a 2.5lb Sea Trout hooked and safely returned to the River.  The Spring Sea Trout in the Almond are normally good quality fish and I’m sure you’ll see that from the gallery pictures.

Please note that the 2010 Outings have been added to the site, with information regarding booking.

Tight Lines.

The River is running high and coloured following the snow and “snow melt” that has occurred over the past couple of days.  This is the first time in a while that the River has been in spate, so the flush out will do her good.

Still no reports of fish, but I’d imagine that when the River drops of we should start to see the first of the 2010 Sea Trout appear.

Tight Lines

The first few weeks of the new season have passed and we have not heard of fish being caught yet. Which isn’t surprising as the River is not renowned as a Spring river, that said any kelts left within the system should be snapping at anything thrown near them.

There is a Work Party planned for this Sunday, see the News Page for further information.  We have also started to arrange the 2010 Outings, with Loch Tay now open for bookings, and one of our members has kindly donated two rods on the River Tummel, so if you are interested and need nore information on either event, see the Outings Page for more information.

Just in case that you are not aware, the club’s new website contain a section for member-submitted articles. There are only a couple of articles at the moment but this is only a starting point.

If you would like to contribute an article to be published here, then please contact the site  Admin.

The articles can be found here.

We have some pictures from the opening day ceremony.

There were no salmon reported on the first day, so we are still waiting for that first one!

Opening day crowd

Waiting for the first fish

30th January 2010 – The River is looking great for Opening Day, running about 6″ above Summer Level, water clarity is Good.

Hopefully, we’ll have an excellent turnout on Monday and maybe even a fish to kick start the season.  Meeting time on Monday is 08:30 at School Brae Car Park.

Our club website has been recently upgraded to version 3.0!! The new website still contains the original look and feel but contains a number of new features. Amongst the new features are:

• search facility
• events calendar
• rss feeds
• addition of a fully interactive Google Map (still needs some more work)
• albums based online gallery. We now have three different albums! Fishy one and another two not very fishy ones
• member forum. Club members are welcomed to join our newly installed web forum.

There are still a couple more items which need to be completed. The old journal entries would need to be archived and added to the new site. Some of images from the old image gallery are still to be added into the new ones.

If you found any errors on the site, then please let us know. You can email web admin or use the contact us form.

Well another season comes to an end … no more fishing until February 2010.

2010 Season Tickets are now available, remember the £5.00 discount for early birds before the end of February.

Opening Day – 1st Feb 2010, meeting at the School Brae car park at Cramond at 08:30.