Date:
26 June
Air
Temp: 15C-21C
Water
Temp: 14C
Water
height: -1cm
Number
of rods: 17
Number
of fish caught: 26
Biggest
fish: 27lbs John B
No
30lb+: 0
No
20-29lbs: 2
No
8-19lbs: 18
Grilse:
6
Weather:
In
the morning it was a bright sunny day with a strong downstream wind. Clouds
built up during the day and at 2.30pm the wind changed 180 degrees and the
temperature dropped. The sun then came out again and we enjoyed a balmy summer’s
evening.
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| Sunny start |
Manager’s Comments:
Up
at Sand Island Paulo H had two, a grilse and a 12lber. Alex K also had two, a
12lber and 14lber.
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| Alex K with his first Russian salmon |
Matt
H and John B landed a fish each, a 25lber and 27lber respectively. John again
landing the biggest fish of the day.
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| Matt H with a 25lber |
Arni
B has been fishing a floating line all the time and fishing on Lower Norcamp today
he had three. He reported quite a lot of action with grilse and found great
success fishing in the pocket water in the rapids.
Bill
W and William M had a couple of fish each. William persevered til late after
dinner and having blanked on the right bank of Lyliok he headed down to fish
the pockets in the Lyliok rapids and was rewarded with a 12lber.
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| Manuel with a nice one |
Geoff
B had a couple of grilse from Poachers but Anna K had nothing until mid-afternoon.
Very sensibly she gave her rod to the guide to hold and took a short 15-minute
siesta. Waking up refreshed, she put on a large Red Francis in Beach and almost
first cast she was into a fish. In the end she finished on a high with three.
Yury
D had a very solid three from Lyliok in the morning, all in the teens. Anthony B
and Nout K landed a fish each after 5pm at Crow’s Nest.
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| Yury D with a 19lber |
Expectations
were high but the day was not as productive as everyone had hoped. Lyliok was
completely blank in the after dinner session. One of the fascinations about
salmon fishing is that we simply do not understand it all. Other than perhaps a
little too much sun and wind, there was a dropping river and things looked pretty
decent. Was it a little thundery? What was going on with this about change in
the wind?
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| Football takes precedence over fishing when Iceland and Russia are playing |
Whatever the reason the fish were simply not as enthusiastic about taking!
Still a total of 26 was a good score but the team worked very hard to achieve this.
Henry
Mountain
