DATE: 12th July 2017
Air Temp: 27’C
Water Temp: 15’C
Water Height: +.10m
Number of Rods: 13
Number of fish Caught: 24
Biggest fish: 25lbs Sam Amos
No 30+: 0
No 20-29lbs: 3
No 8-19lbs: 12
Grilse: 9
Weather:
A grey day, lots of cloud cover, windless and extremely warm.
Managers Comments:
More of the same again today with a fair bit of action all over the shop. The fishers at the bottom section of the river reported endless sightings of fishing jumping and rolling. Sure signs that they were running hard. Interestingly the anglers further up the river saw almost nothing other than the ones they hooked up with.
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| James with a fish on in the evening light |
Sam Amos had a day to remember in Lyliok this morning, landing three fish in the pool at 25lbs, 15lbs & 15lbs. Three exceptionally good quality fish. Sam got all three fish on a Jock Scott, and old fashioned salmon fly on a single hook. Great to see someone using the old traditional equipment with some success.
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| Leo with his 24lbs fish. |
Digby who was fishing up river in 7 Islands had an exciting day, sadly never managed to get a fish to the net but a hooked a couple early on that put up a good tussle then shook the hook. A third fish took, and proceeded to take all his line and consequently breaking at the join leaving him with all his backing and nothing else. A shame he didn't manage to get a look at the fish but another good fishing tale for him to go home with.
I think I'm safe in saying that we have finally seen the end of this years kelts! The last one caught was last Friday, almost a week ago now. Surely that must be it!! Kelts in July, a very odd thought. Also the amount of snow still lying on the banks, I think a lot of it will be there until the next snow fall. Snow on snow. A very odd year in the Kola but now things are finally starting to get back on track. We are just hoping we can start to find the odd bigger fish soon.
Toby Burrell
