Air Temp: 8 > 12 > 6 degrees
C
Water Temp: 8
Water height: -8 > -10cm
Number of rods: 15
Number fish caught: 41
Biggest fish: 35lbs Sam Amos
No 30+: 2 (Sam Amos x 35lbs,
Jonathan Murray 34lbs)
No 20-29: 12
No 8-19: 27
Grilse: 0
Weather: The wind dropped on Saturday evening, and warm sunny weather continued until Sunday lunchtime when the cloud rolled in on a cool upstream wind.
Manager's comments: What a day! (…and a half including yesterday evening.)
New guests meet their guides for the week
All beats other than Upper Norcamp fished well and produced good quality salmon. The water is now VERY clear and smaller flies with nice movement definitely have the edge over Snaeldas and the like. We fished Sand Island/Cliff, 7 Islands and Crows Nest for the first time this season. Sand Island produced 4 fish, Crows Nest a couple but 7 Islands was definitely the stand-out with Sam and Andy landing 7 fish including a double-hook-up with Andy landing a 22lbder and Sam a magnificent 35lbder, measuring 109cm!
Dean and Dan landed a number of fish from Nahodka/Golden Reach including 3 of 25lbs and over. Erik and Edward were at Sand’ landing fish to 27lbs and the largest fish at Crows’ was 25lbs. The water at Crows’ in reality is still a little higher than optimum but should “come-in” nicely over the next days which is exciting as when in good shape it is such a stunning beat.
Large cock fish from Heron Point
Just when we thought the action was over for the day, Jonathan, Stephen and Dan decided to give Home Pool and Heron Point a run and coincided with a nice run of fresh 10-16lb fish landing 4 of them, capped by a phenomenally fat fish for Jonathan measuring 107cm – a cock fish conservatively estimated at 34lbs that has been in the river a couple of weeks and fought incredibly hard ‘cartwheeling’ several times.
As I said earlier in this report…what a day!
Peter Rippin
News from Gremikha Camp, Lower Yokanga
First evening...6 caught, 4 lost. All the action in Golden
Pool & 18 on the right side, Home Pool on the left side. Biggest fish
18lbs, with the others in 10 to 14lb range. Great start...an excited camp!
A very strong day today...15 caught, biggest of 34lbs and 3
others at 20lbs. That takes us to 21 for the week so far. Remainder all in the
teens bar one. A few big ones lost and many other fish lost. Water lower than I
have ever seen it, but fishing beautifully, particularly the Loop pool on the
right hand side...we can actually wade into the river, which is a first. Fish
being seen from top to bottom (right down to Zaborka). A few commenting on how
well the fish look...in particular, the depth is staggering. I should think
this is as good a chance of a 40-pounder as any of us will ever get!
