Border Esk Photos
Below is a map of the
Border Esk, showing links to photographs of many of the fishing
pools on the river from above Langholm to the junction with the
River Liddle below Canonbie, part of the Esk and Liddle Fishery.
Best known for its sea trout, the Border Esk also has a decent run
of salmon in the second half of the season. The Esk and Liddle
Fisheries beats include some of the best fly fishing water on the
middle Esk and the middle and lower Liddle. At one time the Esk and
Liddle fishery beats might produce around 5000 sea trout in a
season, many of them taken on the night fly during the short summer
nights of June and July, with the added bonus, towards the end of
the season, of up to 500 salmon. For reasons that are not clear,
catches of sea trout on the Border Esk, like those of other Solway
rivers, have declined in recent seasons, with the Buccleuch Estate
beats now producing somewhere between 500 and 1000 sea trout per
season and around 200 salmon. Given the right conditions, though,
June and July can still provide some excellent night fishing. See
Border Esk & Liddle Fishing
for more
information.
Border Esk Map
click a camera to see
photograph
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