A very slow fishing day compared with yesterday, with much warmer air temperatures and very little in the way of surface or indeed sub-surface activity. There were though a few salmon that kept rolling around in one of the deeper pools this morning and the odd sea trout intent on pushing through the runs. For […]
There are still fresh salmon running the river Eden despite the low water levels. On the Yorkshire Fly Fishers water near Wetheral Robert Jollie tempted an 8 pounder on a small riffle hitched fly and Yorkshire Fly Fishers Fishery Manager Mike Grimes landed a surface caught brace at 8 and 9lb respectively, all three salmon […]
I had a real nice day on the river with my good friend Craig who was accompanied by Phil today, it was Phil’s first time with a fly rod in his hand. The weather was certainly better than the day before, a little warmer and less wind and quite a lot of surface activity in […]
It certainly seemed to be the longest day of the year today with all the high winds and squally showers we have had. We are still seeing a few salmon coming off the tides and running up through the necks of pools. More interestingly a lot of sea trout and brown trout sighted at times […]
The rain forecast did not materialise as the weather people had stated although it was blowing some, the day we had in the shelter of the Eden Valley was a very pleasant one today. David from Workington who is (was) a still water fisherman joined me on the river today for some pointers on how […]
