DATE: 15th-16th July 2017
Air Temp: 25’C
Water Temp: 18’C
Water Height: -.5m
Number of Rods: 13
Number of fish Caught: 24
Biggest fish: 22lbs James Beaumont
No 30+: 0
No 20-29lbs: 3
No 8-19lbs: 17
Grilse: 4
Weather:
Good cloud cover and a light upstream breeze, patches of sun.
Managers Comments:
The new guests arrived in good time on Saturday afternoon. A quick lunch and out on the river. 11fish caught or the afternoon, a fantastic result.
James B had a great Saturday afternoon , he had a quick wiz through home pool, hooked four fish, landed three, 21,16 & 7lbs. All fresh. James’ streak continued into Sunday, he landed two fish in the morning both over 20lbs. A fanatic start to the week for James, good work!
Andreas had an exciting start to his first morning on the Yokanga, hooking a fish in the first draw at lower Nor camp… He told me that the only comparable fish he has ever caught before was a Tuna. This fish ripped line of the reel, with in seconds its was 100m down stream, jumping and still going. As the end of the backing came close Andreas noticed a knot in the backing, he proceeded to try and stop the fish before the knot came through, sadly the sheer force snapped the line half way through the backing and the fish was gone. A disappointing result of course, none the less a fanatic experience.
This evening a small team consisting of James, Sam, Giles and myself went on a trip up the Lyliok river to see what its looking like up there. To my horror, when we arrived we found the river horribly low, in almost looked unfishable. We had a brief cast in Pinro pool, but soon lost all confidence in that, it was practically a pond, no current. We the meandered on up to Snake pool, of course there was a slight stream through the middle of the pool, after a couple runs through Sam hooked up! An epic battle in that tiny little pool/river and we landed a lovely 17lbers, reasonably fresh.
A good start to the week , I think catches will continue at similar rate and perhaps pick up as we start to see a few more grilse.
Toby Burrell
