• Davie McPhail is a ‘Friend of the River’ and is internationally renowned for his fishing and fly-tying videos on YouTube.  He has over 121,000 subscribers to his channel and has posted more than 1300 videos, demonstrating the fly-tyers art and his skill and experience at fishing Ayrshire rivers for trout and salmon. […]

  • Following a couple of decent spates in late May/early June, it was always likely that a few salmon would have made it up to Smithston. A couple of the rental syndicate rods have been out, but some nice trout were the only successes….until this week. Delighted to report that David Allfrey had […]

  • After the very warm and at times hot spell in May and June, more ‘seasonal’ conditions returned in July. A few fish were seen and one fresh salmon was caught by Richard Bellamy. In addition, we had a couple of sea trout.  Things really came to life at the beginning of August, […]