Nearly there..
Well at least it proved the point… Saturday water down to just under 2ft and on the lower water I managed another fish of 10lbs, Derek C added three more to his fish earlier in the week, 16lbs, 12lbs and 8lbs, Matthey G lost two more fish one of which broke his running line (A Rio what do you expect!) and Cecil D lost another.
That bought our total up to 6 Salmon and a Sea trout for our week but the total did not really reflect the real story. First was the weather: They had 5 fish on the Saturday before we arrived, water 1ft 10ins on the gauge. On the Sunday it rained for 24hrs non stop putting the river up to over 3ft 6ins. As it settled back to 2ft 6ins on Wednesday we got a Salmon and a Sea trout and lost several more. But on Wednesday it tipped it down again putting the river up again to nearly 4ft. At over 4ft the fish can no longer run straight through and we picked up another fish and lost a couple more. Friday back to that dreadful middle height. Then Saturday back to a fishable level and we were in business again.
Second I should point out that whilst only 6 fish and a sea trout were put in the book, we lost a total of 10 more, two of which were because a very expensive over engineered reel jammed solid whilst fighting them, two were lost due to line breakages – no excuse for that. And three others were lost literally at the net but not much can be done about that. Had we been able to put 16 fish in the book one could have said it wasn’t a bad week and by Scottish Spring fishing standards pretty b…y good!?
The Tronach notice no lupins or bluebells out yet – a very late spring
Matthew G into a fish RB Tronach – He lost it!
The Prawn strikes again!
Another falls to the Prawn! Nice fat hen fish covered in Sea lice
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