Week beginning 3 February 2020
Monday 3rd February. 2’11” and 46 degrees but blowing a hoolie again. Matthias and the lads gave the beat a good thrashing but a seatrout kelt from the glide was all we had to show for it, it’s still a bit too big for us this early in the season.
Tuesday 4th February. 3’3” and 42 degrees and carrying a bit of colour but at least it was calm and sunny, fast sinking lines all round and again a seatrout Kelt was the only action. Going to be frosty tonight so that’ll help drop it in a bit, I’d like it to lose a foot and more but thats not going to happen for a while.
Wednesday 5th February. 2’9” and 42 degrees nice and clean. It was a nice enough day with just a light breeze first thing which picked up a bit during the day, we had 4 salmon kelts this morning and a couple of other pulls this was followed up with a solitary seatrout kelt this afternoon and another salmon kelt. We are on fast sinking lines at this height but as we have lost a few inches we have scaled down from a 5 tip to a 4 or 3. Three fish off the river today one at Upper Hendersyde, one at Junction and one at Upper floors caught by Stellan who is part of the Swedish contingent that have been here for the week mixing their fishing between the Lees and Upper and Lower Floors. The forecast for tomorrow is much the same as today so we had better make the most of it as it looks like Saturday night and Sunday are going to be howlers as well as very wet.
Thursday 6th February. It was a lovely out on the river today apart from not catching any fish, 2’5” and 40 degrees and nice and clean. We had 3 Kelts from the Temple and 1 from the Cauld, all on fast sinking lines with copper tubes on the end. Only 1 fish reported off the river today and that came from Birgham Dub, maybe tomorrow.
Friday 7th February. 2’2” and 38 degrees along with squeaky clean, it was near perfect for the Lees and it was a lovely day once the fog lifted and the frost gave, the bad thing being we had no rods, we did but team Sweden had sort of overbooked and were short of rods. We gave it a wee go this morning but didn’t have a touch, team Sweden on the other hand did catch at Upper Floors with Magnus get a fresh 8lber. The weather is fine tomorrow morning but from lunchtime onwards looks bad and getting worse as the weekend goes on, but hey it’s February!
Saturday 8th February. 2’1” and 40 degrees and squeaky clean. This is all fine but it was blowing a bloody gale and forecast to get stronger as day/weekend went on. Magnus was here today fresh from his success of catching a springer at Upper Floors yesterday, the other two team members were at Upper Floors. Magnus gave it his best but today it wasn’t good enough (bit like the Scotland rugby team). There were only two fish off the river today one from Upper Hendersyde and one from Rutherford so well done them. The forecast is for severe gales and up to 80mm of rain so chances of fishing early part of next week are zero, well you could fish but you’re not going to catch. Hey ho its February. It’ll be better eventually.
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