Water Temp: 5C
Water height: 2.1m
Number of rods: 13
Number fish caught: 7
Biggest fish: 18lbs
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 0
No 8-19: 7
Grilse: 0
Weather: A cool day with plenty of
sunshine. An upstream wind picking up through the day.
Manager's comments: All the pairs
of rods spread out over more of usual beats today and fished Island down to
Waterfall. If nothing else it made sure that collectively we had tried out more
places where resting fish could be stopping. John H and Chris A fished
Waterfall which had some likely pockets that could have produced a fish but
sadly they did not contact anything down there. Chris unexpectedly hooked and
landed a pike when practising with his new rod while waiting for the
helicopter! Similarly one pair fished Crows Nest but again no luck.
Ready for the day
Congratulations go to Pete W for
landing a fresh 12lber at Island. It is interesting to see that at least one
has made it that far upstream under this year’s conditions. Robert G was the
top scorer with three osankas up to 18lbs. John B christened his new rod and
reel with a 12lber from Lake. Bill W had a brace (10lbs and 17lbs) of osankas
from Pump.
A nice bend in the rod
Sea trout are rarely caught on
Yokanga in my experience. For some reason the team have picked up four sea
trout in the last two days. These are bright silver fish of 2-3lbs which
somehow seem to be running the river in these high and cold water conditions.
John B with his 12lb osanka
Unsurprisingly there are many kelts
still in the system. This had led to an informal kelt competition amongst this
week’s guests! Late night bar talk revolved around tactics and which flies may
be the most attractive to them! The current front runner for ‘King of the
Kelts’ is Matt H who is standing on 10. The week still has a long way to go.
I forgot to report one event from
yesterday. Pete W asked Spencer P for a hand but succeeded in pulling him into
the river’s edge and also dunked himself in as well. The resulting double life
jacket inflation had their guide Old Sasha killing himself with laughter.
White-tailed sea eagle
The river is continuing to drop
slowly and as it does we are hopeful that the usual fishing spots may start to
perform.
Henry Mountain
