Air Temp: 18C to 24C
Water Temp: 15C
Water height: -13cms
Number of rods: 16Number of fish caught: 11
Biggest fish: 21lbs, Chris Agar
No 30+: 0
No 20-29: 1No 8-19: 8
Grilse: 2
Weather: More of the same sun. Some hazy
cloud cover during the course of the day. Light upstream wind.
Searching for silver
Manager's comments: A very hard day
on the river with hot temperatures making it positively wilting for fishermen.
Well done to Chris A for two great
fish from Poachers and Lake, 21lbs and 19lbs. Fishing partner, Philip L, also
had a nice 16lber. Spencer P landed a fresh 17lber from Lower Norcamp before
the air temperatures increased during the day. It certainly seemed that the
fish landed were all fresh from the sea (some sea liced) but we do not seem to
be able to connect with some of the older fish with this bright sunshine and
hot weather.
Nahodka and Golden Reach
Given the tough conditions for
salmon fishing, Helmut Z who has been here for two weeks, elected to go trout
fishing on the Pokruay the day before. He was accompanied by Toby Burrell, who
will be taking over from me to host the rest of the Yokanga season. Toby has
just finished hosting five weeks on the Pana for the second time. The trout
fishing was epic and they landed 30 fish or more between them up with a couple
of them being over 3lbs. Toby hooked and lost two salmon, one of them that took
at the rod tip and was estimated at about 17lbs. Sadly the 3.5lb tippet
material and trout hooks were not enough and the fish were not landed.
Spoilt for choice
Colin J's finest
I think that we may need to refine
tactics in the coming days to smaller flies and lighter leaders to fool some of
the older fish into taking.
Pasha, Russian camp manager, after a hot day on the river
Henry Mountain
