Weekly Report

6-13 June 2015

Air Temperature: 1C-18C
Water temperature: 8-10C
Water height: -4cm
No of rods: 13
No fish: 44
Biggest fish: 30lbs x 2, Eric and Edward Ahlstrom
No of fish 30lbs+: 2
No of fish 20-29lbs: 13
No of fish 8-19lbs: 29
Grilse: 0

Weather: Hugely varied weather, gale force winds, rain and cold spells, interspersed by a few hours here and there of warm calmer conditions.

Comments: When we arrived to green trees and an early Kola spring we, to some extent, wrongly persuaded ourselves that the magnificent Yokanga spring run of salmon would have known about the favourable conditions and turned up early in numbers! However, the beginning of the main spring run is only beginning to arrive, as is normal, for the first fortnight of June. Success has been managing to cross the path of a small pod of fresh fish as they eased upriver - the key lies are not occupied as such....yet!

 

We were lucky to have mixed team from Finland, the UK and Russia - all of whom got on very well and celebrated each other's successes. Apart from the Champions League final! Although low on numbers, Yokanga did come good as always on quality. We were all delighted to see that more than 30% of fish landed were over 20lbs including several of over 27lbs and two fantastic fresh hens of over 30lbs. We look forward to next week and the promise of a building head fish running on each tide.