Air Temp: 8 > 16 degrees C
Water Temp: 10
Water height: -11 cm
Number of rods: 15
Number fish caught: 30
Biggest fish: 30lbs Dan Christensen
No 30+:1
No 20-29: 4
No 8-19: 25
Grilse: 0
Weather: Very warm still morning with bright sun, more breeze in the afternoon (short period of strong wind) but cloud cover only for the last hour of the fishing day.
Yokanga Lodge Manager's comments:
A much tougher fishing day today (oh how easily your expectations for each day change when fishing is first class!) Sun beamed into the river pretty much all day and an upstream wind made casting tricky. When the cloud cover finally rolled in almost every beat had their best action of the day.
Antti had a lovely 20lb fish from Crows Nest, Heikki two fish from 7 Islands, the best fishing of the day was Dan and Dean on Sand Island/Cliff who landed 7 between them of 15, 15, 16, 20, 25, 28 and 30lbs – half of which were landed after 5pm.
The Yokanga weekly scientific talk happened between football matches, accompanied by a short but interesting slide-show on the river, the salmon population and the challenges faced in the effort to return Yokanga to historic runs. Among the interesting information is that the parr densities in the river have almost doubled since 2012, and when you consider that the Yokanga salmon’s life cycle is 6-8 years from egg to returning salmon, it shows that efforts to protect the river since 2004/5/6 have started to show tangible benefits. Yokanga guide Sergei “Science” (Dolokov) is actually a scientist at PINRO, the Polar Research Institute, so we are very lucky to have a resident “boffin” on the ground at Yokanga.
With the weather warm for a full day, it feels like summer has arrived for the first time this season. Tougher fishing but beautiful to be on the river.
p.s. Today the rods landed the 200th salmon for the week!
