A running diary of events on the river.
24th March, the easterly wind direction has swung south-westerly, the tides are increasing in height, water temperature at 7 oC, river level six inches above summer height. A wet weekend is forecast which will give the river hopefully a small rise and encourage the main spring run into the Eden. From now, the last week of […]
Unfortunately for me so far this spring, I have not had the pleasure of getting on the river to do some fishing for myself just yet. With all the damage the severe floods have done since December, it has been a massive clean up operation to get the fishery back into some sort of shape. […]
As the river levels began to drop over the last two weeks after the persistent high waters, salmon have been entering the Eden with some good fish among them. 3rd – river at two foot and fairly clear, water temperature 5.5 oC. 9th – Dave Bamford at Warwick Hall, 9 pounds. River at one foot and […]
With this dry period and fine weather, river levels on the Eden are dropping in very nicely – Lower river Eden The water temperature at present is at 4 oC after mild temperatures over the winter. There is no reason at this water temperature why salmon should not be able to travel a fair way upstream this […]
An eight part series on taking people out on the water. Part 8. How does the day end? To conclude, I have to admit, that some of the day’s on the river during the early years were certainly a challenge for me. Some clients that were very difficult initially, turned out to be real nice people. It […]
