Week of the 16th April
Professor Gilmore’s party saw the end of the snowmelt that has kept the river at a very good height for the last 5 or so weeks. They caught 5 salmon for their week but it was hard going as fish still seemed reluctant to run up to the middle of the river.
On the 18th Professor A T Elder caught a 9lb salmon in Contractors. Some fish were obviously running as a fish rose and then pulled the fly in Macallan. Gruinards also caught a salmon with long tail lice in Bank.
On the 19th Alasdair Mackie caught a 10lb salmon from the Rock pool. This fish must have had some kind of encounter on it’s way to being caught as it had considerable scale loss and it was only played for 3 or 4 minutes before it came in. Jerry Alexander caught a very strong salmon from Kennel run weighing 10lb
On the 21st Jerry caught 2 more fish and lost 1 in quick succession. 1 came from Gardners and 1 from Rock, both on a Sunray Shadow.
The river stayed around the 9″ mark all week but dropped to minus 4 on Saturday. We haven’t heard much from the rest of the river but there was a minimum of 10 caught.
