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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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    May 21
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Week of the 17th May

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Although we were plagued by low water up until Friday the Sloss party recorded 16 salmon on Braelangwell plus 8 on Dounie for the week.

On Monday, the host Robert Sloss landed a 7lb salmon from Gardners on a micro red Francis. The gauge was showing minus 11”

On Wednesday three salmon were landed to Robert’s rod. One in Gardners on a small hitch, one in Rock on a micro black Francis cone and one in the neck of the Morail on a small hitch. They weighed 6, 8 and 9lb. The river was still minus 11”

On Thursday Robert scored again catching an 11lber from Contractors on a small hitch.

On Friday the river rose most of the day peaking about 2ft 11”. Five salmon were landed, four of them after dinner. Tom Silk, James Preston, Angus Sloss and Ruaridh Nicoll caught one each from the Morail. Three were 8lb and Ruaridh’s was 10lb. Olly Alston caught a 15lber in Kennel run.

On Saturday six salmon were caught, all in the afternoon or late evening. Robert Sloss had a cracking day starting with one on Dounie in the morning then five on Braelangwell. He started off with a 16lber from Washerwoman then a 12lber from Contractors and a 13lber from Gruinards run. He finished with a pair at 8 and 9lb on the hitch from Gardners at 10 pm and 10.25 pm. It’s quite remarkable that they took a hitch at that time of the evening.

Olly Alston caught the other fish at about 9.40 pm from Kennel run which weighed about 5lb.

The river height started off at 4” dropping to minus 2” by the end of the day.

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    May 21
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Week of the 9th May

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The week started off with the water level on minus 6″.

On Monday morning Jasmine Campbell caught her first salmon from the Rock pool weighing 7lb on a 8 Ally shrimp

On Tuesday Finlay caught a sea liced 7lb fish from the tail of Upper Craigs. The water was still running at minus 6″

On Wednesday the water was up to 1ft 3. 5 salmon were caught and at least 3 were lost. Nick Furno caught his first salmon from the Morail weighing 10lb. Hugo Griffiths caught 2 and lost 2 in the Morail. Megan Mccarter caught her first salmon and after losing one in Kennel run Alex McCarthy also caught his first salmon from the Morail.

Nothing else was landed the rest of the week.

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