Week beginning 22 July 2019
Monday 22nd July. It was blowing a hoolie today and it has smashed my garden to bits, hanging baskets all torn and my dahlias are snapped. 1’0” and 62 degrees this morning but it is rising above us. No fish to report and at 7.30 tonight the gauge was showing 2’7” with more rain to come Tuesday night it might get bigger on Wednesday. The heat is building and to reach 27 degrees here tomorrow which is hot for us, down south to reach 36 degrees and they can keep it.
Tuesday 23rd July. It was hot very hot for around here, 1’11” and surprisingly still 62 degrees; although I’ll bet it’s not 62 tomorrow morning. 1 salmon from Learmouth and a seatrout from the ledges, two other fish lost but I don’t know where from. The water was very beery today which didn’t help and there are to be some heavy thunder storms in the catchment during the night which will no doubt affect the levels again.
Wednesday 24th July. Hot and sweaty again, 1’4” and 66 degrees with a very dark tea colour to it, it was also rising again due to last night’s thunderstorms. Mick Atkinson here with his grandson Jack for a couple of days. Andrew fished the Cauldstream down with Paul and the only action was Andrew knocking his glasses off into the river. Tonight at 8.00pm the gauge is reading 2’4” with a lot of weed coming down. The forecast for tomorrow is for 28/29 degrees which will not help the fishing, at least there is a bit more water that will help the fish survive this heat.
Thursday 25th July. A hot hot day with very dark water 1’7” and 66 degrees, Mick had a look at it and decided that the colour combined with the weather he was heading home and looking at the catches tonight he made the right decision. There were some fish running and some of the smaller ones were taking the cauld. Thunderstorms tonight and writing this at 8.30pm it is rumbling round about us it’s also very humid. Langholm common riding tomorrow so no report.
Friday 26th July. Langholm common riding. If you have never been to a common riding and want to go to one Langholm is the one to go to, everything happens in one place on the same day.
Saturday 27th July. Recovering from Langholm. On the fishing front 2 salmon and 2 seatrout landed that I know of, one of them 16lb
©M Campbell 2019
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