DATE: 1st-8th July 2017
Air Temp: 14C-26C
Water Temp: 7C-16C
Water Height: 1.1m - .4m
Number of Rods: 16
Number of fish Caught: 54
Biggest fish: 30lbs Keith Webster
No 30+: 1
No 20-29lbs: 10
No 8-19lbs: 37
Grilse: 6
Total weight of fish: 798lbs
Weather:
A mixture of all seasons through out the week, bright sunshine, heavy fog, strong winds and rainy afternoons.
Managers Comments:
Now looking back on the final scores, the week just past was definitely a successful one. It certainly did start off low and then seemed to crescendo into a fantastic finish.
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| A Drink In the Evening sun |
However having said that it was a slow start, some of the really good quality fish were taken early on. Keith had an epic 30lb fish from Home Pool in the first evening. A specimen that is hard to beat, a bright silver hen, only hours from the sea. Congratulations Keith on catching a fish of a lifetime and I hope it's the beginning of lots to come!
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| Keith's 30lber |
As the week progressed we certainly started to see more fish, they were fairly scattered around for the first half of the week, but by the second half we began to see a pattern. The bottom beats on the river were producing the fish, exactly what you want to see when still waiting for the run to come in on this bizarrely late season.
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| Charles' beauty from Beach |
In the tundra spring is an incredible feat to watch come and go, it's such a fast process here because of the short period you can physically see it happen. This was one of those weeks. Upon arrival the tundra was totally brown and grey. Now however, the whole place has come alive with bird life, greenery and a fantastic blossom of flora. It really is a whole new place from five days ago. A really magical thing to see the change in season in such a short period of time. It would seem that the fish are also running on a similar scale and turning up as fast as the spring has.
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| Keith Chucking a good line in Lyliok |
Our last day of the week was a spectacular one and we hope that this is the beginning of a fast and furious salmon run. It certainly felt like fresh fish coming up in numbers.
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| Andy with a good hen |
A big thank you to the team of rods, what a fantastic week we had, lots of laughs in the bar every evening. A truly great fun group of people. Travel safe and see you next year!
Toby Burrell
