23/01/2008

The first full week of the season 2008

The first full week of the season has come to an end and we have nothing to show for it. There have been 5 rawners (male) and 1 baggot (female) reported caught but no sign of any fresh run salmon yet. The amount of rawners caught this season is high and is a sure sign of the seasonal change we are witnessing everywhere. The river temperature has been a consistently low 35 - 36 degrees all week which is around 2 degrees lower than the temperature of the inner Moray Firth, I fear we will not see too many springers enter the system until river temps rise.

Fly of the Month - The Willie Gunn (below), in any shape or form, this fly is an early Spring legend fished on a fairly large tube.

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Published on Wednesday 23 January 2008 by Ronald Sutherland