Quite a few fish about

The recent rise has encouraged fish up. Iain Bain reported a salmon and a sea trout during the week, and today he had a salmon around 7lbs.

One of the other co-owners had 4 salmon today, ranging from 4lbs-18lbs. The 18lb fish was a large hen,and pretty fresh for so far up. The observant will spot a little blood on the gill cover of the fish in the picture below, the fish was bleeding slightly from one gill, but recovered after about 5 minutes, and she was returned safely.

The successful fly was a yellow/red hairwing dressed sparse on a half inch aluminium tube conehead - fished off an intermediate tip.

18 lb hen fish


11lb hen fish