Had a lovely day on the lower river with Huw last week. The fish were hard to tempt with the warm temperatures during the daytime, but perseverance does pay off now and again. Into a nice trout.. ..duly played and landed! Another take.. ..a small sea trout. A difficult period of the day to catch […]
My good friends Neil and Kevin from Wales came to have a fish with me this week for two days. We did bit of fishing on the lower river one day and on the middle river the next day. The water level is now getting very low for salmon fishing the middle parts of the Eden […]
I had my good friend Richard that I had not seen for a while come up and join me for a couple of days on the river. Yesterday the northerly icy wind suppressed any surface activity throughout all of the day and the fishing was a little difficult. Today the breeze had less of a bite to […]
William from Sussex joined me on the river for a few days this week, great company and a very enthusiastic fly fisher! River water conditions were very good apart from the constant high velocity and cool north-westerly winds that were suppressing the surface activity. We decided to try several parts of the river to give […]
It was the first outdoor visit to Greystoke Castle this year to do some kick sampling on the North Petteril stream bed that runs in to the lake there. Borderlines have been doing this for some years now with the pupils of Greystoke school to determine just how healthy the water course is. Invertebrates, mollusc, […]
