Week of the 30th June
We had good water all week peaking at about 5ft on Friday night with the water temperature between 49f and 56f.
We had another good week with 6 salmon, 10 grilse and 4 sea trout landed.
Tim Clarke got us off the mark on Monday with a 10lber from the Washerwoman and Jemima Grande caught a grilse in Ronnies on a hitched 10 silver stoat on Tuesday.
On Thursday the river was up to 1ft 6 and 7 were landed. Lydia White landed her first fish from the Morail , a salmon of 7lb followed by a grilse later in the day. Jim Browne, Eliza Wood, Jos Clarke and Angus Griffiths had a grilse each from the Morail and Jemima Grande caught a 15lber from the Washerwoman.
On Friday off the back of a 5ft spate 6 were landed. First thing the river was running at 2ft 3 but quickly dropped back. Tim Clarke caught a grilse in Contractors, Rollo Grande caught a 6lber in Frenchmans and another at 6lb in Lower Craigs. Jos Clarke caught a 6lber in Lower Craigs and both Finlay and Lydia caught a grilse each in the Morail.
Only 1 grilse was caught on Saturday, a 4lb fish from Morail after dinner to Tim Clarke.
Again we had another week with as many lost as were caught. As I’ve said before, these fish are not just on and off they have been played and just drop off. It is encouraging how many fish we are seeing especially on Friday when fish between 3 and 7lb were showing from Kennel run to well below the tail of Gardners which was as far as we went. I suspect they were right down through to the Boat pool because Jim was on the other side with a couple of guests concentrating on Little Rock to Boat.
