Week beginning 29 April 2013
Monday 29th Never mind the fishing, I got my onion plants delivered from Yorkshire yesterday so they are now in the raised beds and I’ve followed instructions to the letter, they came from John Clancy Yorkshire’s champion grower and fitba player of note (albeit a while ago) so watch this space in September when I’ll be lifting the trophy at Coldstream’s flower and veg show, I’ll keep you posted on their progress as it’s not all about fishing is it? Anyway to the fishing, blowing a bloody hoolie, great height and 46 degs, sunny spells. Don’t tell anyone but 3 of the rods were spinning today! We had a hold of a Seatrout in Learmouth that shook itself off after a few seconds and that was it for the day. The first Swift of the season turned up today so summers here at last! There is also a pair of Whooper swans down at the glide who are getting a bit sweet with each other so we might have some young whooper’s this year I’ve never seen them breed here before but you never know. It’s to be calmer tomorrow so we should get a better crack at it. Tuesday 30th A flat calm sunny warm day, brilliant! Not so good for the fishing though but it really perked up my onions, anyway we didn’t see many fish there were a few Seatrout splashing about and a great hatch of March Browns, two cracking Trout in the back of the wall but I couldn’t touch them and with the water being gin clear they were easily spooked or maybe it was my bad casting. Richard Harrison lost a nice fish in Duddo in the afternoon but that was the only touch of the day, I’m off tomorrow as I’m following my son to Berwick Bounds rideout it’s too difficult to explain if you don’t know about the Border common ridings, maybe one day when I’ve got you in the boat and we’re not getting fish. Wednesday 1st May Well I didn’t miss much today, only 10 off the river and 6 of them below us. Had a grand day at Berwick bounds rideout apart from one downpour it was dry and sunny all day, bit windy but thats better than rain all day, Grant (son) did well on rideout at least he didn’t fall off and the horse he was on was a flying machine, you wouldn’t get me on it, mind you a wee Shetland would be a grand way of getting round the beat and maybe save on a bit of strimming as well as it chewed all the grass, back to the fishing tomorrow so we’ll see what happens. Thursday 2nd May Well we had a casualty yesterday Colin who was filling in for me got a treble hook stuck in his finger necessitating a visit to the local health centre to get said hook removed, finger recovering but hook was rendered unusable. Just like buses nothing for a week then today two in two casts from the Cauld both covered in long tailed lice, so Richard Harrison was a happy boy. We did see a few fish in the Cauld after that but nothing was willing to pull the fly. The Osprey gave us a visit this afternoon but didn’t hang about, there was a hatch of dark olives and March browns but no Trout seen rising to them. Water was 1’5” and 46 degs a nice warm day so I’m expecting the temp to rise tomorrow. Friday 3rd May Graham Whitty was top dog today getting a fresh 9lb fish from Learmouth on a spinner of all things! The wind was so strong that you couldn’t cast a fly across the stream so a 20 gram Toby did the trick. The wind really spoiled the day making casting and rowing the boat a bit of a challenge. Saturday 4th May 1’5” and 48 degs clean, but a text message at 10.00am from Lower Floors told us that the river was rising, so we knew that by lunchtime it would be with us. Frank Smith who had blanked all week was put into the Cauld thinking that was his best chance, but he didn’t trouble his score for the week and returned with his tail between his legs and another blank. Terry opted to take a supervisory roll today and organised everyone from the bench dram in hand (paradise he says). Graham meanwhile had sneaked off to fish the Back of the wall and the Glide with a fly and came back with tales of an epic battle and another 9lb licer, a full floater with a 4’ intermediate poly leader and a wee bottle tube was the tackle that did the business. By lunchtime the river had risen 6” so the lads decided to call it a day and head for home, which was bad news for them but good news for me as it was straight home and into the garden and green house as everything is so far behind this year that it’s now all needing done at the same time, I’m sure everything will catch up as it’s going to be a great summer with a flood just once a month and it will only rain at night once a week just to water the garden! We had the Osprey, Kingfisher and the Otter with us this morning all at the same time; where else would you see that? It’s not going to be a full flood but will do the world of good as it is needing a bit of a freshen up and it gives us more water to fish next week.
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