The slow start to the season has continued with only a few more fish being picked up. The total to today is believed to be 10 fish, which when all said and done is one of our poorest spring returns for quite some time.
Succesful anglers in the last month include George Munro, Steve Pannell, Jimmy Wilson and Ray Barrett (one of our oldest members) showing the youngsters how to do it, catching a 20 pounder in the Red Craig. Ray caught his fish on the 21st April, There must have been a few fish running at that time as 2 visitors were also succesful the day before with T. Whitmore catching a 12 pounder in Antons and L. Hsalamars netting a 4 pounder.
A similar small fish was caught earlier and scale samples taken by the Baillif subsequently confirmed it as a salmon.
The river is now down to almost summer level with only a small amount of snow left on the high hills, so we will need rain before the river rises again.
There are a few fresh fish about and with an expected increase in angling effort over the next few weeks, I hope I have something positive to report in the near future, the low water should suit us, as it will hopefully slow down the fishes progress up the river, although I have heard that the upper river has been catching fish with sea-lice still on them!
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