Air Temp: 11C to 18C
Water Temp: 17C
Water height: -30cm
Number of rods: 16
Number fish caught: 25
Biggest fish: 21lbs Christian Jennelius
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 2
No 8-19: 14
Grilse: 9
Steven Lodge with a nice fish from the top beat
Weather:
A day of all seasons; bright sun shine, heavy rain, strong winds, hail storms... you name it, we had it all.
Manager's Comments:
The day began with a layer of black cloud cover, and some very heavy rain showers. Giving us a good morning's fishing. Turo L had a good session down in Crows Nest landing four fish of 20lbs, 15lbs and two 6lbs grilse. His team mate Jukka also managed a 12 and a 14lber.
Christian J had a good fish out of Island today (21lbs). The fish took him above the island and it took hard and Christian did his best to stop it entering the rapids but the strength of the fish was too much. It steamed off down through the rapids with Christian and his guide, Young Vova, trailing behind. Half way through the rapids the fish stopped and began to move slowly upstream whereupon it wrapped itself around a rock mid-stream. Vova, the guide, waded out into the heavy rapids to where the fish was and took a blind scoop into the water with the net and by an absolute miracle managed to get the fish. A heroic moment. How he then managed to wade back to the shore through heavy rapids with a 21lbs fish in the net will remain a mystery forever. But a very exciting experience for Christian and a fantastic fish to catch. Well done to both Christian and his guide, Young Vova!
Rob W with a beauty out of Cliff
Rob W and Steven L had a great result in Cliff this morning - two 18lbs for Rob and a 19 1/2lber for Steven. There are not many places you can do that in a morning fishing between two. People are generally catching fish on smaller line, 20/22lbs leader, with anything from a size 8 fly to size 14. The bigger fish are tending to be caught on the smaller flies. As always the grilse are being far less fussy and taking anything that is presented correctly. All rods are using sink tips or intermediate, apart from the odd bomber or sun ray shadow that are both being thrown out on full floating lines.
Fish on!
Toby Burrell
