Monday 17th  to Sunday 30th September 2018 (2 weeks).

The first week was wet and we received some big floods on the 18th (0.78m!), 19th (0.60m), 20th (0.50m), 21st (0.50m) with nice water over the weekend too. The gauge average for the week was very high reading 0.43 metres! The second week was drier with the river running at lowish levels with the best of the water levels being 0.26m on Wednesday. The gauge average for the second week read 0.15 metres. 30 visiting anglers fished over the fortnight and some good catches of salmon were recorded.

On the 20th, Alan Watson recorded 2 grilse weighing 4 & 6lb caught and released on fly from beats 6 & 4 respectively. Brian Stark had a good day reporting 4 grilse weighing 1, 3, 5 & 6lb caught and released on a spinner from beat 3 having hooked and lost 3 others.

On the 22nd, Joe Early recorded a 6lb grilse caught & released on fly from beat 7 and Brian Stark had a great day reporting 5 salmon weighing 3, 4, 8, 10 & 10lb caught & released on a spinner from beat 5.

On the 23rd, Bill Murray logged 2 grilse weighing 4 & 7lb caught & released on fly from beat 5.

On the 24th, Brian Stark recorded 2 grilse weighing 3 & 6lb caught & released on spinner from beat 5.

And that was it all over again on the last Sunday. Another season passes us by.

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