Monday 26 June 2017

Promising Start

Date: Evening 24 June and 25 June

Air Temp: 4C to 13C
Water Temp: 5C
Water height: 1.6m to 1.5m
Number of rods: 12
Number fish caught: 4
Biggest fish: 22lbs Bryan Sohl
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 1
No 8-19: 3
Grilse: 0

Weather: A grey Saturday evening but Sunday was back to blue sky and sunshine with a developing strong upstream wind during the afternoon.
 
Summer temperatures at last

Manager's comments: The new team arrived in reasonable time on the Saturday afternoon and about half went out for a short while in the evening to try their luck. There was nothing landed but those walking to Beach and Lake were rewarded by the extremely close sighting of a cock willow grouse still mostly in winter plumage.

Willow grouse only 20 feet away
 
On Sunday we woke up to a stunning blue sky day that remained throughout. Bryan S landed an absolutely beautiful 22lber bar of silver from Lake and also took an 11lb osanka. Vladimir V had a fresh 12lber from the top of Home Pool and Igor T had a 16lb osanka to finish the days tally with a total of 4.
Bryan S with his mint fresh fish
 
Frank L had a rewarding day but not in the way he was hoping for. Now that the river has dropped and is out of the bushes he found three snaeldas at Poachers that weeks guests had lost. If this continues he will be opening the second Yokanga tackle shop soon.
 
Transport to the river

The river has changed dramatically since we arrived with the first guests on 17 June and is now much more recognisable. The fishable water has increased a lot and there are now plenty of plenty of places where salmon could rest. Lyliok is really beginning to take shape and is fishing well from the right bank and will certainly hold resting fish when they come.

Lyliok beginning to take shape

The river continues to drop 10cm a day and we hope that the warmer weather predicted for this week may bring the water temperature up a bit without melting too much snow and bringing the level up again.

Henry Mountain

Signs of spring