Week beginning 6 June 2022
Monday 6th June. Yet again another poor day weatherwise with that bloody north east wind blowing in cloud from the coast, no wonder people go abroad for their holidays. 6” and 56 degrees. Three local lads here today and Rodger from deepest Englandshire, the team was all looking fresh having celebrated the queens jubilee over the weekend. Sandy Lang was first onto the scoreboard getting not one but two from the Iron Gate point, both were fresh and were 9 and 10lbs. David Foreman had a pull in the Glide just before lunch which made up the action for the morning. Michael Black here with his lurcher Crumble buoyed by Sandy’s success this morning went down to learmouth stream and had a 12lber on a tiny black frances, Sandy on the Glide had a hold of another fish but it didn’t stick. Young Dean text me at lunchtime to say they’d had two from the stream and lost another this morning so there were a few about, maybe just lucky they stopped with us rather than pushing through, mind if it gets much lower they will have to get the bus. It’s still too cold to tempt me out of an evening, what a slow spring it’s been, my garden is almost at a standstill, the bedding plants are just not growing but sitting there waiting for some warm days.
Tuesday 7th June. Overcast again with the ever present north east wind, 5” and 56 degrees on the Lees gauge. New team on today apart from Rodger who was here yesterday. The lads got spread out round the beat and fished all the fishy bits and some of the not so fishy bits and sadly caught nothing, we saw fish in the Iron gate, Glide a couple in the Duddo and one in the Bags, the Slap had the usual old friends by now splashing occasionally to keep the rod hopeful. We desperately need water now and there is some rain coming but I doubt if it’ll be anything like enough to alter things.
Wednesday 8th June. Same as yesterday but wet. Thursday 9th June. Nothing much to report again today until night time as Peter stayed on and it paid off for him as he landed a liced 10lber from the Duddo stream, I’m writing this on Friday and I’ve kind of forgotten what happened yesterday, must be an age thing.
Friday 10th June. A very windy day from the west at least, sunny spells put some warmth into the day. The river was up three inch due to the freshet, it made little difference to the fishing or the catches, this afternoon the lads were more or less beaten by the wind and were going to come back this evening hoping that the wind will have died down; at 8.00pm tonight it was still blowing.
Saturday 11th June. Another gale blowing today along with some heavy showers, the lads lost a couple of fish last night one in the Bags and one somewhere else. Today the freshet has gone through and the river has dropped again, 58 degrees though. Danny was on the Slap and Cauld and soon hooked a fish on a #10 cascade, I had the net ready but the fish hadn’t really began to fight but when it did Danny’s reel decided to tighten the drag on its own, the rod tip was almost onto the water by the time the hook pulled out to much swearing. Danny then moved down to Learmouth as one of today’s rods was a no show, just opposite the wee bench on the other side he was into another on a micro tube this time, even though the reel this time behaved it shook lose as well to more swearing. This afternoon the lads had had enough of the wind as had I so they headed for home.
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