Fishery Manager Jim Stafford reports from the Erriff: The hot summer weather continued throughout the week. The rain that was forecast never came and overall water temperatures remained high but falling to 17C by the end of the week.
Nevertheless, Anthony Tindal caught a nice fresh run grilse of 4.5 lbs. on a Pringle Shrimp Fly in the Middle Garden Pool on Beat 9. Fishing a Shrimp Fly the Bridge Pool produced another nice grilse of 4.5 lbs. for Linda Titterington from Northern Ireland.
Gernot Lipp, Austria, had a brilliant week catching 3 grilse best at 6 lbs. which was taken in the Bridge Pool on his own dressing of a Silver Sheep Fly. Fellow Austrian, Martin Weinzerl, caught two, best at 6.25 lbs. in the Middle Garden Pool and Bridge Pool. Bernd Schubel, also Austria, caught his first ever salmon weighing 6.25 lbs. in the Falls Pool on an Alley’s Shrimp; Bernd was unlucky to part company with a few more fish. Jean Jacques Eugene fishing a second week on the Erriff had 2 grilse, best at 5.5 lbs. in the Falls Pool and Gerard Garnier landed another of 7.75 lbs. also in the Falls Pool.
Fishing late evening for sea trout in the School House Pool on Beat 3 Mick Burt, UK, caught one and lost another three, while Neil Spellacy, Moycullen, had a good night’s sea trout fishing in the Quarry Pool on Beat 2; releasing a salmon estimated at 8 lbs. taken just below Finnegan’s Burn. Neil then went on to catch and release another 2 sea trout of 1.5 lbs. and a few small brown trout. All fish were caught on a Teal Blue & Silver size 14.
With a good west wind and cloud cover Tawnyard Lough produced 15 sea trout (best 2.5 lbs.) and 25 brown trout for Paul Caslin and Peter Gray. Most successful flies included Extractor, McCormack Peter and a Gorgeous George. Another two rods reported two sea trout and several brown trout earlier in the week when angling conditions were far from ideal.
The total catch for the week was 12 salmon and 29 sea trout.
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