Mostly busy with casting tuition this week with both single handed and double handed fly rods and although the trout season has started, many anglers are making sure that their casting skills are up to speed especially with the Salmon rods, in anticipation of the new season kicking in proper. There have been a few fresh fish caught throughout the system with both numbers and the fish themselves into double figures although the river is still holding lots of Kelts and even though they are continuing to drop down the river there are still many of these spawned out Salmon holding in the higher beats reluctant to make a move. This in my oppinion has been dictated by the low temperatures we have been experiencing and maybe these slightly warmer days we have had recently will encourage the remainder to drop back down towards the sea. Possibly the snow melt we will get soon coupled with the additional rain we are supposed to get next week will be of some assisstance. I say possibly because believe me, regardless of the amount of water we get if they are not ready to go then they won't.
The trout season has started slowly which was expected and was not made any easier by the slowly rising water level throughout the day, although the beat we were on today did produce a couple of small fish and there was quite a reasonable hatch of Large Dark Olives in attendance and I did see one fish take one off the surface but that was all, everythig else was sub surface and heavy bugs were the order of the day.
