Week beginning 12 June 2023
Monday 12th June. A hot sunny day and almost flat calm, water temp 64f and 0” on the gauge, all this means it’s going to be a difficult week ahead as the forecast is for sun and warmth all week. Team Harper here for the week with Terry on a supervisory role. Graham Scott fiddled about down the duddo and bags but didn’t see a fish, Richard Harrison was on the glide and we saw 4 or 5 fish but no pulls in the glassy conditions. Richard Fisher up top but again no success in the slap or cauld. By lunchtime the heat was building and it was a case of leave it until evening for a cast, hopefully they’ll find an obliging seatrout or two.
Tuesday 13th June. No seatrout caught last night as no one went back out after dinner to fish, I can’t say I blame them as a nice cold pint after a day in the sun would be very attractive. 5 fish on the websites yesterday I suspect a lot of evening fishing going on as it was late before they came on. Today was a copy of yesterday except perhaps hotter with not a cloud in the sky and just a puff of an east air this afternoon. Richard was up top this morning and we started with a micro tube on the slap which was changed to a #12 silver stoat then a sunray but not a boil or a follow was had. Down the beat Graham and the other Richard did no better. The river has taken on a distinct green hue and the algae is starting to float on the surface, water temp was 64f again this morning and off the gauge height wise. The potato lads were down this afternoon and the pump was soon sooking out the water to irrigate. It seems even the lads with their upstream flying condoms are failing (good), there were two cars stopped outside the bakers armed up with spinning rods and flying condoms, it’s a bloody shame to be hammering shrunken streams with old springers in them all because you have to catch a fish, it’s also a very aggressive way to fish if you have neighbours, rant over for now.
Wednesday 14th June. I went out for a cast 10.00pm last night, I did the tail of the cauld with a muddler minnow only because I’d put the wrong box of flies in my pocket, I had a couple of follows and saw a few seatrout one a bar of silver that left the water in a great splash of spray, there was no trout rise by the time I left after 11.00pm. Today Graham was up top and had three follows to a wee sunray but as of late they are not keen enough, that was all the action for the day. The very day I don’t take my gun a mink swims right across the temple with a trout in its mouth right in front of the hut. Water temp was 64f again this morning and the green tinge is getting worse as is the algae floating down. The cheery weathergirl is now telling us it’s to get hotter towards the end of the month and it is going to be a hotter than average summer, great for my chilli plants but terrible for the fishing if correct, caught up with a bit of hogweed spraying this morning as a few white flowering heads were nodding above the undergrowth.
Thursday 15th June. Another day of going through the motions, off the gauge but it had dropped to 6of this morning. Graham Scott was up top this morning but we couldn’t even get a follow to anything in the slap or the cauld what’s left of it as its so low now. Richard was down in learmouth where a lot of seatrout were jumping but not pulling in this bright sun and heat. There is a rumour of a chance of rain Sunday onwards more in the west, I’ll believe it when I see it, and it’ll have to be a lot to put anything in the river as the land will take so much. This afternoon the lads took a trip up to Duns to visit the Jim Clark motor racing museum, well worth a visit if flooded or droughted off, only 1 fish reported off the river today which is 1 more than yesterday.
Friday 16th June. Hot and sunny with not a cloud to be seen in the sky and flat calm, 0” or less on the gauge and 64f this morning with a distinct green tinge to the water. Richard had a few casts across the slap with a wee fly then a sunray but nothing came for a look. The team decided that fishing was more or less hopeless and headed down the road for home, they have had a bad week fishing wise but great for sitting watching the wildlife going about its business if you like that sort of thing. I got the croys on the far bank strimmed as if any water does come its a bugger trying to land a fish in amongst the rushes, it was a bit of a sweaty job I have to say in this heat. I can’t see myself going for a cast tomorrow but might try for a seatrout tonight or tomorrow night.
Saturday 17th June. Overcast skies today but very humid, water temp this morning was 70f and green -0”. I didn’t bother with a cast last night and to be honest looking at the water this morning I’ll leave the fish alone. The cheery weathergirl is now fairly confident that we will have a fair bit of rain tomorrow (Sunday) night over into Monday morning. At the moment on the radar it looks heaviest on the east but it’ll be better than no rain.
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