Air Temp: 13C to 16C
Water Temp: 17C
Water height: -12cm
Number of rods: 2
Number fish caught: 6
Biggest fish: 18lbs Geoff Barber
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 0
No 8-19: 2
Grilse: 3
Sea Trout: 1
Sea Trout: 1
Old Vova with Geoff 's 18lber from Poacher's
Weather:
A stiff downstream wind. The majority of the day consisted of cloudy skies with the odd short spell of sunshine.
Manager's Comments:
Another fine day on the banks of the Yokanga with water levels still slowly dropping off but it would seem that there is still a reasonably constant run of fresh fish coming up the river.
Geoff B had a fantastic day in Poachers, he managed an 18lber, a 16lber, a grilse and a fresh 4lbs sea trout. All of Geoff's fish today were fresh; none with sea lice but they had only just lost them. Geoff had fished Poachers down with various flies - Red Francis, Black Francis, Sunray Shadow and a Yoganka Gold with no result. Then the final go down with a Small Cascade did the business and produced four fish! This was amazing really, whether the fish were being very fussy or just happened to come into the pool for his final run down we will never know but whatever the case I'm sure Geoff will be putting his cascade to plenty of use tomorrow.
Old Vova with a fat 16lbs fish
Simon was further up the river at Island where he sadly didn't have quite as much success as the other rod but did at least mange to avoid a blank day. He reported that there was very little movement up the top, seeing only one grilse which he then proceeded to catch. At least we think it was probably the same fish.
Sergie the scientist electro fishing for the annual parr counts
I had a very interesting day up the Lyliok river with our resident scientist Sergie. Every year Sergie takes his electro fishing equipment up the Yokanga river system to do his annual parr counts for PINRO (The Polar Research Institute). Returning to exactly the same spots each year, he electrifies the water and nets all the small parr in the area, proceeding to count each one and take scale samples. We visited five of his usual spots on the Lyliok river with great results. We found an abundance of salmon parr at each, managing over fifty in most sections. Each section was 10m by 10m. It is fantastic to see these numbers of parr in the river, giving us great hope for future seasons.
Toby Burrell
