Tuesday 11 July 2017

Lots of sun, lots of fish.

DATE: 10th July 2017

Air Temp: 28’C
Water Temp: 15’C
Water Height: +.3m
Number of Rods: 13
Number of fish Caught:  20
Biggest fish: 25lbs George Shaw
No 30+: 0 
No 20-29lbs: 2
No 8-19lbs: 17
Grilse: 1

Weather: 
Bright and sunny, all day with very little wind and extremely hot.
Managers Comments: 
Every day now we are picking up the scores, as more and more fresh fish pile in. The spring is finally here! It's taken a record amount of time to arrive, but finally now all the flowers are out, the trees are green and the birds are here. We caught our last kelt on Saturday and hopefully that was the end of them. Very bizarre to be catching kelts in July, however it was just another sign of how incredibly late everything is. In hindsight, the salmon were right on time, they arrived in numbers just as the kelts disappeared. 
Phil with an 18lb fish 
Today was another good day on the river, the bright sunshine and blistering hot sun didn't give me the highest of hopes first thing this morning. But I was very wrong, every team had plenty of action, a lot of fish hooked. 
Yokanga grilse are chunky!

George had a fantastic day in Lyliok, hooked 8 fish landed 4 of them, all between 16 and 25lbs. He also lost one out the rapids reporting that his reel burnt out! He said it smelt like a car clutch going, nothing he could do to stop the fish. His partner Alan had a lovely fish of 17lbs out the top of Lyliok pool as well.
Beautiful colours

Leo had a very exciting afternoon, hooking into plenty of fish and having numerous pulls but sadly didn't mange to land one, James his fishing partner, also had the same problem, but did mange to get two to the bank in the end. 

George's 25lber


We are now on to full floating lines and the odd intermediate tip. Fish are being caught with flies of all shapes and sizes, Andy had a 22lber from Beach with a size 8 Stoats Tail. Leo hooked fish on Schneldas and small Cascades, George managed his on a small Ally Shrimp tube… No real pattern and all varieties. The beauty of having a river with a good number of fresh fish in it. 

Toby Burrell