It certainly has been a most unusual autumn for fish and weather behaviour, the trees are still green and only just beginning to turn. The water is now at 50 oF, ten degrees lower than last week and somewhere near where it should be for the time of year, the water conditions are perfect for […]
Heavy rain on the 3rd gave the river a much needed three foot rise making the 4th unfishable. By the 5th the middle river was dropping in nicely and in good ply for the fly while the lower remained coloured. The 6th saw the whole river in good shape for most methods but heavy rain […]
On the lower Eden with Alan and Robert yesterday, the salmon fishing remains slow as it is everywhere else so out came the five weights. It was not long before Alan got his first grayling. Then Robert with a nice trout. Then a grayling. Another. And another. Besides the grayling there were […]
Good friends Chris and Martin joined me on the river this week, always great to see them and to enjoy their company. The drought period has extended for far too long now in Cumbria making conditions for good salmon fishing at this the prime time of the season with the fly very difficult in some […]
Spent some quality time fishing with my very good friend David Richens this week on the lower and middle Eden. The same scenario persist that there has been no rain for weeks and so no water for the salmon to run, so it was trout and grayling fishing for us. We had a great first […]
