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,