Spring round-up
Our spring has been dominated by low water and fewer fish than usual. In the 10 weeks that the lodge has been let we have had 7 weeks with little or no water which has really skewed the returns. We thought there would be a good spring when on the week of the 26th March at least 17 salmon were landed below us. With the water being cold the fish didn’t seem keen to run and we ended the week blank. That was our only blank week which is amazing considering the low water. The water temperature rose quickly letting the fish run straight through us and the first salmon were seen at the Glencalvie falls on the 6th of April a full month earlier than most years.
We landed 23 salmon to the end of May well down on the 61 landed last year. The last fish of the spring was landed by Jonathan Sykes, a cracker at 18lb from the neck of the Morail on a Silver stoat micro conehead. On the 1st of June, Rob Sloss managed to tempt a salmon from the neck of Millers which was good going considering the water was off the bottom of the gauge
On the upside, the first three weeks of May saw fish running steadily through the beat. Bow waves of fish were seen moving through pools during the day and fish going over the Morail falls were really encouraging considering reports from elsewhere. This seemed to peak in the third week. We saw fish on the bottom beat in the morning, the top beat in the afternoon then sealiced fish were being caught at Glencalvie in the evening.
