Date: 10 July
Air Temp: 9 C
Water Temp: 10 C
Water height: -18cm
Number of rods: 16
Number fish caught: 23
Biggest fish: 23lbs
Rod: Ross Varian
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 4
No 8-19: 7
Grilse: 12
WEATHER: Overcast, brightening
through the day. Gentle NW breeze.
COMMENTS: Every beat produced fish,
but seemingly thin pickings with about one fish to each rod. However, Lower
Norcamp was a different story with Eric W and Rod H-J landing five between them
(best 18lbs) and lost two fish; one in the twenties and the other described and
bigger than the combined weight of everything they landed!! After a classic big
fish take “I thought it was stuck on a rock, then it moved” the unseen fish
steadily made its way up into the pool and kept on going for 150 yards
apparently totally unperturbed by Eric leaning into him. Having explored the
majority of the pool the fish headed back to the tail and the rapids below
where he came unstuck. Un-sighted we shall never know what it was, but Eric
will remember this fish for some time yet! Elsewhere on the river Ross V landed
his biggest of the week at 23lbs near Boris’s Rock and brothers Martin and
Jerome M tucked into an on form Crow’s Nest landing five with a couple of
twenties to note.
