Week beginning 12th November
Monday- 2’0” and 38 degrees squeaky clean and overcast its perfect but after flogging away all day we only had 2 to show for our efforts and a couple lost they just didn’t seem to be there, maybe tomorrow. Tuesday- Much milder day with the water up to 42 degrees and the fish are still there, must of been the cold water keeping their heads down. It was blowing a gale making rowing the boat and casting a problem, Glen poulter had two fresh fish from the Glide and Back of the wall and seeing a good few more. We ended the day with just the two fish but lost another three and at least saw enough to keep us interested. There were loads of Dab Chicks about today, I don’t know where they come from as you never see them all summer and then about late October they are in every pool, they must be the most secretive bird we have as they can’t migrate as they can hardly fly more a wee dash along the surface. I see the gauges are rising yet again so tomorrow will be one of those days, fishable height but murky and unsettled (bit like me really).Wednesday- Bigger than I thought it would get, made 4’0” by 10.00am on our gauge so no fishing today, the big surprise was the water temp it jumped from 42 degs yesterday to 48 today if it had stayed low I would of been out there with a big skimmer, I’ll bet that would of lifted a fish or two and they certainly haven’t seen one for weeks and weeks. Thursday- River at 3’8” and very dark murky colour to it, the rods elected not to fish. We did see a few fish moving about in the Temple and Cauld but the chances of hooking one would be slim and none, checking the web sites I see the nearest fish to us today was at South Wark at the top of their beat, one of only two caught below the Junction, that’s the Teviot effect for you, all the gauges are falling tonight so will get at them tomorrow it’ll still be big but fishable. Friday- River back to 2’11” and much cleaner quite a lot of leaves in the water that were a bit of a pest but we got past them to land six for the day, top rod was Jim Reid of 40lb plus fame from Bemyerside who had four of them, one of them which he thought was the bottom and gave it a few good tugs trying to shake it off before he realised it was a Salmon. Saturday- Was a quietdaywith only one old fish at eight pounds landed. There seems to be a lot of rain heading our way for Monday so it could be a challenging week ahead, I drove over from the west today (Sunday) and every field seems to be full of water so it doesn’t take much rain and the rivers away again.
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