Week of the 10th September
Finally, we got some long needed rain and some cooler weather.
The Arkwright party caught 19 for their week which is very good but was also very hard work. It was very much a fishing holiday rather than a holiday with some fishing and if it was the latter nowhere near as many fish would have been caught. For instance, the Washerwoman was fished regularly during the day but Johnny Younger went down at about 7pm and had 2 one after the other which summed the week up perfectly. We could go for hours without a fish then a couple straight away.
The water peaked at about 3ft which was the highest since before the season started and was therefore very dirty. Both Tom Arkwright and Jake Cooke-Hurle caught 4 each, Tom’s best 12lb in the Washerwoman and Jack’s 6lb in Contractors. Neil Dixon had 3 from the Morail and the best fish of the week at 15lb. We also had 2 first ever salmon, both were from Burnmouth. Laura Boscawen’s was 12lb and Louisa Dixon’s was a 3lb grilse.
We have not heard much about catches off the rest of the river but Glencalvie estate had a beat on Amat where they had caught just over 30 by Wednesday night.
