Haughs

Haughs is an interesting pool, the top end of which is much changed in the past couple of years. The head of the pool is now formed as a fork due to an unfortunate flood gravel deposit. The fork creates a deep and swift pot, fairly tight under the south bank and this can be very carefully fished (as in “hands and knees”) in low water from the gravel bar midstream.

In low water, that is the extent of the pool’s fishing, but it is utterly transformed in higher conditions. The uppermost part of the pool is all but impossible to fish in high water, but don’t worry, as soon as the angler comes off of the rock armour on the downstream side of the aqueduct, and onto the pebble beach which runs along the south bank, he or she is in business! A footpath-esque wade along this bar will have you covering boulders, and lies all the way and the pool fishes like a dream.

The pool can be waded down nearly to the tree trunk which juts out from the south bank and is a useful marker, as it gets too deep for comfortable wading around this point. Once here, anglers should back track and come in again in the shallower water to cover the tail before it spills over into Harry’s Bar.

Haughs is another of the pools which fishes very well from the boat in high water, and a memorable April catch of three sea-liced fish in 20 minutes was made here from the boat in 2023, on a day when the pool could not have been fished otherwise.