Week of the 16th May
The week started off with very low water but promised the rain came on Thursday. By late afternoon the river started rising and Lucy Bardwell caught a 13.5lb salmon in the Washerwoman.
On Friday morning the river had dropped back to minus 3. Before breakfast Fen Howieson caught 3 salmon in the Morail, 2 of them were on his first 2 casts !! It went quiet after that until Paddy Miller caught a salmon in Frenchmans.
On Saturday, the river was at 6 inches but rose on and off until late afternoon. 3 salmon were caught, Fen had 1 in Frenchmans, Nicky Griffiths and Paddy Miller both had one in the Morail. Nicky caught hers with about 9 inches on the gauge and Paddy at 1ft 9. There cannot be many rivers that consistently catch salmon on a rising river.
