Cracking week
A cracking week was had at Braelangwell with 18 springers landed.
On Monday morning the river was running at minus 9”. Nick Jupp went out before breakfast and caught a salmon from Gardners weighing 10lb. What was remarkable was the air temp was -3c and the rod rings were freezing meaning that he had to keep putting the rod in the water to defrost them. By the afternoon the river had dropped to minus 12” and there was a bitter East wind. Alan Lutman landed a 12lber from Millers.
Three fish were lost on Tuesday.
On Thursday the river rose all morning and peaked mid-afternoon at 3ft 3. 7 salmon were landed. Alan Lutman caught first, a 14lber from Kennel run which is a sure sign fish are running. Dave Barnfield caught the first of 5 from the Morail, a fine 20lber on a conehead Cascade. Rick Verbeeten had 1, plus another from Kennel run and Finlay caught 3 in quick succession.
On Friday 8 springers were landed. We started the day with 9 inches on the gauge going down to 3 inches then back up to 6 inches by the end of fishing.
Nick Jupp caught a 10lber from the Morail first thing, Rick Verbeeten caught 2, 1 from Kennel run the other from Lower Craigs which we managed to get tagged. Roger Brackpool caught 2, 1 from Gardners and the other from the Morail. Alan Lutman caught 1 from Bank and Dave Barnfield went up to Frenchmans and caught 2.
On Saturday the river was down to minus 5”. Rick Verbeeten caught the only springer of the day from Contractors. He also caught a fresh sea trout from Gardners.
Apart from the 20lber 1 was 14lb, 2 at 12lb 4 were 10lb, 9 at 8lb and 1 at 6lb
