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 […]
I don’t think the weather forecasters can tell you what yesterdays weather was doing let alone the next day! As it happened we ignored the horrendous “wet” day they had forecast and had to suffer a nice overcast mild day with interludes of sunshine, very pleasant it was too. Vicente. Out on the middle Eden […]
