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    Jun 23
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Week of the 18th June

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The Sykes party landed 7 and a sea trout after we had a brief rise in water. As usual, the forecast was wrong after predicting a lot more.

On Monday with minus 10″ on the gauge, Jonathan Sykes landed a grilse from the neck of the Morail after dinner.

The rise of water came on Tuesday night. Before breakfast with 6″ on the gauge, Simon Hearn caught a 10lber from Lower Craigs. Jaimie Corke landed a 13lber from the Morail along with a 1.5lb sea trout. Tom Richardson flew north for a days fishing in memory of his father Tubs and fittingly landed 2 salmon from Lower Craigs at 8 and 7lb.

On Thursday the water was back down to minus 6″ but Jimmy Royds landed a 7lb salmon from the Washerwoman before breakfast. Later in the morning, Jonathan Sykes landed an 11lb salmon from the neck of the Morail.

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    May 23
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Week of the 30th April

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The Gray party caught 2 salmon for their week.

On the 2nd, with minus 5″ on the gauge, Cisa Gray caught a 7lber from Lower Craigs

On Saturday literally on the last cast of the day, David Jenkins caught a 5.5lb sea-sliced salmon from the Rock pool. By this time the river was down to minus 12″

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    Jun 22
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Week of the 29th May

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The wee started off the back of some good water the previous week so expectations were high.

Monday started with about 3 inches on the gauge and 4 salmon were landed. Finlay had 2, 1 from Lower Craigs and 1 from Field. The host Robert Sloss Had 1 from Washerwoman on a Collie and Simon Prichard had 1 in Boat on a Snaelda.

The river rose overnight and was 1ft 9″ first thing. Angus Sloss took advantage of the dropping river and was on the Morail at the back of 5am. He was rewarded with 2 from the tail of the Morail. Later Robert Sloss caught 1 from Lower Craigs on a hitch and a lovely 12lber from Kennel run.

On the 1st of June, another 2 were added, Simon Prichard caught the first grilse of the season in Contractors on a hitch and just after arriving Fred Sloss caught an 8lber from the neck of Washerwoman on a hitch 2nd cast.

By Saturday the river had dropped to minus 8″ and the sun had well and truly came out but Fred Sloss tempted a very small grilse of about 1.5lb from the neck of the Morail on a micro red Francis.

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    May 22
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April

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April started really well with 13 springers in the book to the Alston party. in the week of the 3rd . They also had Gruinards where they caught 16 and some fishing on Dounie where they had another 5. The water height was running from 5ft 3 twice to 6 inches.

The water fell away but the next week the 11th of April 5 springers were landed to the Campbell party including a first-ever to Hilary Campbell.

In the week of the 18th of April, the Arkwright party landed 1 salmon from Pigeon rock to Jack Cooke-Hurle. The water height was down to minus 6″ on the gauge. This was the first salmon above the Morail falls. The water temperature was 51f. It has been warm enough for fish to get over the Morail falls since the end of the week of the 3rd of April which is very unusual.

The week of the 25th of April saw the water height down to minus 11″. One salmon was landed from Gardners to Alasdair Mackie on a micro Sunray double. Two other fish were hooked on Gardners but didn’t stick.

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    Jun 21
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Spring 2021

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The spring started very cold with the early fish seemingly reluctant to run to Braelangwell. This resulted in good sport on the beats below. We don’t have the exact figures in but there must have been over 30 springers caught off the river to the end of March. Braelangwell caught 3 of them.

We caught 7 for April which was quite a dry month and so between that and covid restrictions this wasn’t too bad.

May saw some really good fishing with 65 salmon landed and a good many lost. Looking back through the book over the last 10 years the catches were right up there which is really encouraging considering a good many places are seeing a decline in stocks. 2011 was the best year with 106 salmon to the end of May with 66 for May, then 2013 with 75 salmon to the end of May, and 52 for May.

We will not know how many salmon were caught off the river to the end of May until the end of the season but with the beats lower down doing well at the start and then fishing steadily the rest of the spring we should have a respectable total

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