DATE: 17th July 2017
Air Temp: 24’C
Water Temp: 20’C
Water Height: -0.60m
Number of Rods: 16
Number of fish Caught: 15
Biggest fish: 28lbs James Beaumont
No 30+: 0
No 20-29lbs: 2
No 8-19lbs: 8
Grilse: 5
Weather:
Bright sun shine all day, pulses of wind through out the day.
Managers Comments:
A tougher day on the river today, very little sign of mving fish and an incredibly bright day.
James once again managed another fish over 20lbs. He is doing incredibly well so far this week, landed 7 fish, of which 5 have been over 20lbs. Yesterdays 28lbs fish came from Lyliok, James decided to have a change of tactics and tried to make it down to the fish. A heavy line with a small fly. Almost immediately, he hooked into a very good fish but sadly after about 60 seconds the fish was lost. He reported typical behaviour for a large fish that felt very heavy. However he continued on down the pool and sure enough managed to get hold of a second… after a good battle he landed his 28.
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| Grouse on the tundra |
Other fish of note; Eric had a wonderful 19lbs fish from poachers, a slightly older fish but took a surface fly. D’Arcy also managed a 18 from Upper Island, Island had been a fantastic producer of big fish this season. Alex R was another fisher part of the 19lbs club today.
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| Sam with his fish from the Lyliok river |
Euan who is now proudly known as the king of grilse, had lots of action and landed a couple one with long tailed sea lice. Although he did land a lovely 10lbs fish, his guide Sergie was determined that it was, in fact a grilse. Yokanga fish life cycle is a very long one and smolts can leave the river at up to 1.5kgs meaning they could potentially have a good winter at sea and come back as rather large grilse.
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| Glise with his fish from home pool. |
Forecast for the rest of the week is for temperatures to drop quickly and showers of rain to appear.
Toby Burrell
