Last week
(Last Updated: Friday 17 June)
River Findhorn
Latest from Ian Neale, River Findhorn.
The fishing has been pretty slow, due to continued lower water again. The week before last, we did manage to get another 2 fish on Wednesday June 1st one sea liced cracker of around 15 lbs, which Fred Brown caught from the Upper Home last week in the Whirling Hole. I lost another double figure Spring fish on the same day from the same pool earlier in the morning. Fred lost a smaller fish from Essiemore later in the evening. This was on the back of some rainfall over the previous day, but since that time there has been no further rainfall. We also caught a cracking fresh fish of around 10 lbs from Altyre, again on Wednesday June 1st, plus a 3 lb sea trout.
Finally, on a brighter note, we have had a small amount of rain earlier this week, and river levels had risen, which has encouraged some grilse and summer salmon to run into the Altyre Estate beats. Leslie Tyson enjoyed a great evening of sport on Tuesday with 3 fresh sea liced fish between around 4 lbs -6lbs. He also hooked and lost another 2 fish the evening before, so they are coming despite the lower water conditions!
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River Nairn
Week ending 4th June 2022
The river remained fishable for the 1st few days of the week, then the sun and dry weather reduced it back to summer level. Monday, Gordon Rennie continued his good spell with a cracking 12 lb salmon. Tuesday, Billy Milne got off the mark with the best of the season so far, a sea liced 16 lb bar of silver on a Ally Shrimp fly. With low levels nothing more was caught.
The river is in need of rain and the current forecast of showers may not be enough!
River Findhorn
Latest report from Ian Neale;
After a long period of low water conditions and tough fishing, we got off to a flying start on the Upper Home beat at Darnaway last week, the first week of my Summer fishing here.
The Nick Brown party enjoyed some good sport on the back of some much needed rain fall on Monday, after a long dry spell for many weeks!
Nick Brown lost a fish on Tuesday morning in the Rising Pot. On Thursday, Hugo Brown caught and released a really cracking fresh Spring salmon of around 10 lbs from the Whirling Hole pool. Finally on Saturday evening, Fred Brown was also rewarded with another superb Spring salmon of around 12 lbs from the tail of the Craigie pool.
River levels continued to yo yo each day, but there seemed to be some good runs of fish seen, especially later in the week, although they were difficult to tempt for much of the time. The river received some much needed rain last week and prospects look good for those venturing out. As per Ian's report above, there are pods of fresh fish moving through each day and the fish are now well spread throughout the system.
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