Week of the 17th June
We had some high water over the weekend so we had high hopes on Monday.
With the water down to 9 inches, the host, Jonathan Sykes landed three before breakfast from the Morail going on to land six for the day. Four came from the Morail and two from behind the rock in Millers. The biggest at 18lb from the Morail. Andy MacInnes also caught one from behind the rock in Millers at 10lb.
Simon Hearn caught an 18lber from the Morail and Mark Butler had a grilse of 4lb, also from the Morail.
On the 18th with 11 inches on the gauge, Simon Hearn had a 10lber from Lower Craigs, Andy MacInnes caught a 14lber from Bank and Liliana Sykes caught a lovely 12lber from the tail of Contractors which tried to go out the tail of the pool twice.
On the 9th with 3 inches on the gauge, Jonathan Sykes caught a lovely fresh salmon of 20lb from Kennel run.
11 sea trout were also landed for the week, some fishing the Morail late in the evening.
We also lost around 17 salmon during the week. I have never seen as many fish lost. Having landed 11 and lost 7 myself this year I am at a loss to explain why. I’m sure someone will tell me when I post this !!
We don’t know the total catch from the river for the week but three rods on Amat had twenty four between Monday and Tuesday and Dounie had 7. The other beats also had some big fish. We traditionally had the big fish arrive in May. Are they running later now?
