Even though we are experiencing almost drought conditions, the salmon are beginning to arrive in now from the estuary. We have been seeing fish the last week or so moving through the pools along with some good sea trout. One for David Airey, just over 10lbs at Grinsdale on the 6th… and one for Kevin […]
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 […]
We did eventually manage to get out on the river in between floods and high winds, I cannot remember such an unsettled March as this one before! It has been a month of one cancellation after another, there are certainly salmon in the river and for those in the right place when the water has […]
