Air Temperature: 4C-11C
Water temperature: 9C
Water height: +1 > 0cm
No of rods: 13
No fish: 14
Biggest fish: 27lbs x 2 Sam Amos and Markku Lamppu
No of fish 30lbs+: 0
No of fish 20-29lbs: 4
No of fish 8-19lbs: 10
Grilse: 0
Weather: light rain leading to heavy rain, strong wind and very cold weather until lunchtime when rain stopped and wind eased. Rain and wind started again around 9pm.
Comments: the 2015 season is underway and the first few fresh fish have been landed. There is no weight of fish in the system yet but pods of fresh fish are clearly working their way through the middle river, assisted by a good water temperature. Sam and Markku both had stunning 27lb fresh cock fish, from the tail of lake and lyliok - with Markku's fish taking 200+ yards of backing on the first run.
George and John landed their first Yokanga fish from lower nor camp and island respectively, john landing four for the day, two over 20lbs, for an average size of 19lbs. Most fishers had a few takes some of which will be over wintered fish and some fresh fish, for example Stanislav lost three good fish and Igor landed a lovely fresh fish of 18lbs and had hold of a couple more.
Dean had a great 12lb sea liced fish in the evening from Lyliok right bank, landed on a fully dressed Jock Scott tied on a heavy single - well done Farlows for stocking a few traditional patterns - it's fun to see they still work. It was also good to get some evening fishing done as Saturday evening was occupied with the champions league final and a Yokanga Fisher's betting syndicate, Dean winning with a perfect call on a 3-1 Barca' victory!
All the staff and guides are full of excitement that the season is here so everyone holds their breath in anticipation of the landing the first Yokanga 30lb+ monsters that will surely be working their way upriver to occupy the key lies in each beat. Tomorrow looks to be fairly knarly weather with high wind and rain so we are all steeling ourselves for the challenge.
