Braelangwell Lodge

06/07/2026

01/07/2026

After a 5 hour thunderstorm on Thursday night, the river rose from minus 11" to over 6ft in a couple of hours, resulting in some very dirty water. By mid-afternoon, it had almost cleared and was back to 1ft 3.
David Gillibrand landed his first ever salmon from the tail of the Morail weighing a good 12lb. David Robertson then caught a 3lb grilse and Ian Wilkinson also caught a 4lb grilse, both from the Morail.
Second cast on Saturday afternoon, Richard Haworth caught a 4lber in the neck of Upper Craigs.

14/06/2026

We landed one salmon in the week of the first of June for Rasmus Nissen from Gardners weighing 8 lb. Several others were lost, including a big fish to Anne-Marie Nissen.
We had low water conditions until yesterday when the river came up to about 4 inches. John Knott caught our first grilse of the season from the Morail weighing 3lb. He also caught a 2lb seatrout. Mike Burge also caught a seatrout from the Morail.

20/05/2026

Tonight’s canapés is lobster in a sweet chilli sauce 😋

19/05/2026

Richard Franklin landed the only fish of the day yesterday from Keepers run on an 8 Kyley with minus 7 on the gauge. He also lost another in keepers. Richard successfully bid for the days fishing on the Kyle of Sutherland fisheries auction.

18/05/2026

We ended the week with eight salmon landed and at least the same again lost.
Hugo Pearson-Wood got the party off the mark with a 9lber from Gardners before breakfast on Tuesday morning.
The river rose slowly on Wednesday to about 0" Archie Godman-Dorington caught a 8lber from Kennel run with just minus 3 on the gauge followed by a 12lber from the neck of the Morail after changing to a fast sink tip. Hamish Godman-Dorington landed an 8lber from Gardners also after changing to a fast sink tip after the pool had been fished several times before.
On Thursday the river was running at 3 inches. Jamie Ellis caught a 10 lber from the Morail at 5.15 in the morning followed by both Archie and Hamish G-D with fish of 8 and 10lb each before breakfast. After that several fish were lost but just before dinner Tom Denman caught 9lb salmon from Keepers
Despite rain in the forecast, nothing materialized, and although a couple more were lost, nothing else was landed.

17/05/2026

According to the forecast it's raining up there just now

15/05/2026

We ended yesterday with four salmon landed and at least the same lost. We had three before breakfast, then didn't land the fourth until just before dinner, which came from Keepers.

14/05/2026

We have had some activity in the last couple of days after 3 weeks of low water.
Late in the day on the back of a 3 inch rise to minus 4" we landed 3 salmon. One from the neck of the Morail one from Kennel run!! And one from Gardners. Gardners had been fished several times when Hamish Godman-Dorrington decided to try a 5ft super fast sink tip. It didn't take long for a fish to take.
It just shows how important it is to have a few tips in your pocket.
This morning, before breakfast, with 0" on the gauge, we've caught 3 salmon and lost a couple.

27/04/2026

We had some good water at the beginning of last week with the river rising to 2ft.3 by 8pm on Monday night. With minus 3" ok on the gauge Andrew Elder caught a 7lb salmon from Gardners on Monday morning and Bill Gilmore caught another at 7lb just before lunch.
On Tuesday Bill Gilmore the river had dropped back to 3 inches and Bill Gilmore caught a 11lb salmon from the Morail. Late in the day Alasdair Mackie caught a 10lber in Gruinards run.
Two other fish were lost.

It's been a strange spring. There have been over 50 salmon caught, possibly as many as 60 off the river, but the majority have been below the Dounie gorge. On the other hand Finlay briefly hooked a salmon in Pigeon rock before the end of March which shows fish went through Braelangwell.