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It snowed and heavy frosts caused the river
to fall. The snow melted and the river rose.
Then it snowed again. etc.. etc.. etc .. In
short we had variable water conditions throughout
the month. At time of writing the sleet is
again falling. The river is just over the
banks on the Hotel Pool, which looks in fine
order. Tail of Chinese and tail of Ford also
look good. A few fresh fish have been seen
by the rods today, but nobody was able to
tangle with them. Most of the kelts seem to
have gone now. Those that have been touched
have been big.
No salmon to report for the month, but we
did have one notable capture: Gwydion Williams
landed and returned a sea trout kelt of approximately
14lb! What a corker. And they say we don't
get sea trout this far up!
An on the last day of the month Mark Buglass
took a one and a half pound sea trout from
the Hotel Pool on a black and silver Toby
(black and silver or gold seems to be the
solution at the moment). Bob lost a really
good fish in the Hotel Pool a couple of days
ago. The fish took off 100 yards of line,
he managed to bring it back, but the next
run was catastrophic. The fish smashed 20lb
test line as if it was cotton. No kelt that
one! Only other explanation is that it was
foul hooked, but we don't think so as the
runs it made were uncharacteristic of such
a fish.
The other good news from the Estate is that
we are refurbishing a new fishing hut! Those
that are familiar with the old "shed" at the
Point will be more than pleased. We have taken
over one of the old civil defence buildings
next to the Chinese pool. The new hut has
an open fire, a drying room and a meeting
room. So far we have the new floor down, the
roof repaired and the windows in, Next project
is plastering and putting in new fireplaces.
Hopefully it will all be done before the winter
ends!
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