Week of the 9th of July
Well, we certainly got the rain we have been looking for. It was unsettled, to say the least with water heights between 3ft to 3 inches to 7.5ft during the week. 7 salmon 9 grilse and 5 sea trout were landed. 15 fish were also lost a good number of these were just before landing.
On the 11th Fen Howieson got us off the mark with a 10lb salmon from the Morail with 2ft 3 on the gauge.
The 12th was the best day with 8 in the book, 7 of them to Fen Howieson and 1 to Chris Plank. With 2ft 6 on the gauge, 3 came from the Morail and the others came from Frenchmans, Millers, Burnmouth, Kennel run and Boat. Fen lost 3 other fish from Kennel run and Gardners run.
On the 13th the river was running at 3 inches and 4 were landed, Bob Barclay caught a 6lber from the neck of the Washerwoman, Chris Plank caught a grilse from Lower Craigs and Fen Howieson had 2, one from Charlies and the other from Rock. He also had a sea trout of 3lb from Bank. Fen hooked a big fish in Bank which after cruising around for a while decided to go out the tail of the pool and down the Gruinards side of the island when it then threw the hook.
On the 14 with 0″ on the gauge, Harry McCombie landed 2, one from the neck of the Washerwoman on his 4th cast and one from the head of Contractors on his 2nd cast.
On the 15th Chris Plank caught a 2lb grilse from Millers with 5ft on the gauge. The day started with over 7ft on the gauge, it dropped to 3ft 6 but we had some huge thunderstorms resulting in a rising river late afternoon.
It was really good to see Bob Barclay and Harry McCombie after a gap of around 10 years. Harry at 81 walked the whole of the bottom beat every day.
