Week of the 5th August
During the Gardner week we had several days of thunderstorms and with that, the river fluctuated wildly between minus 9″ to 7ft 5″.
On the 6th with minus 5″ on the gauge Paul Gardner caught 9lb salmon from the Rock. Overnight the river rose to over 2 ft. Christopher Lees-Jones landed the only fish of the day on Wednesday but 3 fish were lost just before the net. On the 9th the river was back to minus 5″ Tina Lees-Jones caught an 8lber from Margarets. Overnight into the 10th, the river rose to about 7 and a half feet by the morning it was back to 2ft. On the 10th we caught 5 Christopher Lees-Jones caught 2 from Tree, Tina Lees-Jones and Max Bailey had 1 each from Shepherds. This was Max’s first-ever , a summer salmon of 6lb which he safely returned. The 5th fish was caught by Linkie Whitehead from Burnmouth.
