Hope on the Horizon!

Eden Flooding "Yet Again"!

At last many of us can now travel a bit further, albeit within our own countries of the UK, but at least it gives us renewed hope, and more importantly, access to many more venues and productive beats on our rivers.

Unfortunately the river Eden is big and brown "yet again", but as soon as this water falls and clears, I will be resuming my teaching and fishing activities, as we now have the green light to meet up to 6 people outdoors, after what seems to have been the longest period I have ever spent away from a river!

Something to look forward to!

On the upside though, at least we can now look forward to one of the best parts of the season, without having to worry about missing out on some historically good early fishing, and from mid April we should be encountering some quality, over wintered, and hard fighting trout too, but even more so as we enter into May, which is definitely one of my favourite months of the season, as I am sure you all know that this period can offer up some fantastic sport.

The salmon fishing on the Eden has also seen some good results between April and June over the past few years, especially last year, when we were eventually allowed out that is, before the third lockdown kicked in again, so fingers crossed for this to continue into 2021.

New Life on the Riverbank!

For obvious reasons I cannot give you much in the way of fishing reports at this time, but I have to say, whilst walking my dog along the river, (whenever possible) it was good to see that the Pandemic was unable to affect the onset of Spring in any way whatsoever, and given the doom and gloom we have all had to live with in recent times, it was good to see the many aspects of new life coming through along the riverbank in defiance of what these difficult times have inflicted upon us.

Here's to a new beginning and let's hope all goes well as we move forward into the new season!

2021 (What will it Bring)

Eden Tributary (Caldew)

Well here we are again in Lockdown (3) 2021, with only a few fishing options available to us, and even then, only if you live local that is! Well even though I am quite local to the river Eden, and it's tributaries, there have been few opportunities to open my account.

Sadly, the Grayling fishing was a wash out once again, with many of our local rivers constantly running bank high and coloured, "sounds familiar doesn't it"! 

Main River Eden (1)

The 2021 salmon season on the Eden is now underway, (January 14th) but once again, conditions, coupled with the current Covid19 situation, which sees  restrictions on travelling, (rightly so) and many waters closing their fishing's on a temporary basis until restrictions are eased, continues to prevent any serious fishing from going ahead. However as you can see from the photographs, we have not been missing anything. So unfortunately, given current conditions my January blog will be short and maybe not so sweet.

Main River Eden (2)

That said, there is some hope on the horizon with the roll out of the vaccine well under way, and hopefully this will see us at least getting back to some sort of normality as soon as is sensible to do so. So watch this space!

On a brighter note, the Eden did fish very well during the periods we were allowed to fish in 2020, with plenty of good trout being caught and a very good average size of salmon being recorded throughout the system, (many in double figures) and I am pleased to say that there are already a few sessions lined up for this year in anticipation of better times ahead. However it is only fair to let you all know that given the recent affect on bookings, due to the current Covid19 situation, I have been forced (after 4 years of not doing so) to slightly increase my prices for the 2021 season in an attempt to offset the cost of beats etc. 

Sawbills still fishing!

Current prices can be viewed on the website here. However, those of you who paid in advance, or bought Border Game Angling vouchers for 2020 will be accommodated in 2021 at the price you originally paid.

Finally, it seems that the Sawbills on our river have a total disregard for the rules as they continue to fish, regardless of the high waters, whilst all we can do for now is sit tight and hope all goes according to plan and we too get to fish restriction free. Here's hoping we will know a little more by the end of this month. "Fingers Crossed".