DATE: 25th July 2017
Air Temp: 11’C
Water Temp:12’C
Water Height: +0m
Number of Rods: 16
Number of fish Caught: 12
Biggest fish: 25lbs Pierre Thomas
No 30+: 0
No 20-29lbs: 1
No 8-19lbs: 9
Grilse: 2
Weather:
Fog until late morning, brief window of high cloud and a short shower of rain.
Managers Comments:
I woke up this morning and gingerly drew the blinds on my bedroom window, to my absolute horror the fog was still sitting low and for the fourth day in a row I could hardly make out the outline of the helicopter only 100ft away.
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| Fish on! |
As a team we decided to wait it out in the hope we might get a short window to take off. Finally at about 11:05 the fog lifted just enough for the heli to go. The troops were ready in a flash and we nipped up river, for the first time this week! Literally minuets after the chopper landed back in camp the fog came whistling back in meaning we were unable to do a pick up. Of course this is not a problem as all our boats have engines and even from the top beats its not a great distance when you've you got an engine.
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| Bomber time |
Fishing wise today was slightly more active, the ability to use the boats certainly helped, we could at least start to use the wind rather than fight it. Yann and his father had a productive day up at Sand Island and Cliff pool. They ended up with three between them, one of which was a fantastic 25 pounder. They reported other action too.
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| 20 pounds of fish in the net |
Gilles has just got back form his night time session in Lyliok, a magical hour, he said. One hour of fishing from right bank and constantly touching fishing, one landed and a couple lost, all on a sun ray shadow. Encouraging stuff.
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| Sun set through the fog. |
I have never known this fog to sit in the bottom of the tundra like this for so long. Its very normal to have it one or maybe two days in a season. Five days on the trot however, is very tedious. I hope the pilots will have some work to do tomorrow!
Toby Burrell
