Air Temp: 13C to 16C
Water Temp: 17C
Water height: +6cm
Number of rods: 2
Number fish caught: 0
Taxi arriving
A cloudy cold morning with the odd slash of rain. All the cloud cover cleared by the afternoon giving
up bright sunshine. A strong NE wind all day.
Manager's Comments:
Today's figures reflect the difficulty we had on the water. The river came up almost two feet over night and has certainly still been rising all day today. As you all know, the Yokanga is a vast old river, two feet of extra water coming down the river really is quite a lot. The river did colour up a little bit but had cleared by the afternoon. This obviously had quite an effect on the fishing, not a single fish showing all day. However, Simon did manage to connect with a couple but sadly to no avail. They both seemed to take very slowly indeed then proceed to take a few yards of line before shaking off. Geoff also had a similar experience with a fish in 7 Islands, a soft take that sadly didn't come to anything.
I spent the day up the river with Geoff B at Sand Island, Cliff and 7 Islands, we had a very enjoyable day indeed and experienced a wonderful sighting of two Moose (European Elk), a cow and calf, crossing the river only 50 yards from us. An amazing sight and almost inconceivable to think that they could have swam across the rapids. They came up on to what is left of Sand Island then noticed us watching them and swam the rest of the river and galloped up the bank on the other side, disappearing back into the tundra. A wonderful and very rare sighting and we feel very privileged to have seen them so close up.
A moose on the loose
Water is looking much cleaner this afternoon but even now as I look up boulder alley from the balcony I can see more and more rocks disappearing into the rapids, I fear we may have a very high river tomorrow. But what goes up must come down - I think with a fast rise like this it will drop quickly too. Time will tell!
Toby Burrell
