Date:
15 June
Air
Temp: 8 > 12 C
Water
Temp: 7 C
Water
height: -1 cm
Number
of rods: 11
Number
of fish caught: 8
Biggest
fish: 21lbs Andy E
No
30lb+: 0
No
20-29lbs: 2
No
8-19lbs: 6
Grilse:
0
Weather:
Warm
light breeze, strong sunny spells, cloudless late afternoon and evening.
Manager’s Comments:
The
final day of the week saw the leaves begin to unfurl. The warm weather and
downstream wind was a complete delight to all, in fact it felt like we had all
gone to bed in the Arctic and woken up in the Med!
Our
Icelandic team has headed off to the World Cup yesterday, so we had the 11
remaining fishers on the water today. Fishing wasn’t easy, it definitely felt
like the fish were using the first day of higher water temp to run as fast as
they could upstream, barely looking at flies along the way.
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| Warmer weather on Yokanga |
It
was certainly the first day we saw decent numbers of fish. Sam and Andy
witnessed a number of fresh salmon running through Lyliok and Home Pool during
the afternoon. They managed to land four between them of seven or eight hooked
and played.
Elsewhere
landed fish were few and far between, Markku and Stefan continued their stream
of hooking big fish, but sadly becoming detached from them. This seemed to be
the case for many of the other groups also. Kaj, Graeme and Markku being the
only other team members to ‘bank’ fish.
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| Fresh sashimi |
Nonetheless
it was pretty much the perfect day on which to end the week. Warm, relaxing and
ideal for the team to gather on the lodge veranda after fishing and reminisce
about the week over a few ice cold beers.
Gremikha
Camp: Word from down below was that a
good day was had by all, with lots of action in Golden Pool and plenty of new
fish seen running through. All bodes well for next week on the middle river!
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| Stunning scenery on the lower river |
Peter
Rippin
