Duo use experience to progress to semi-finals
BRECHIN Angling Club had two representatives in the first heat of the Scottish Fly Fishing Championships at Lintrathen last week, and what better result could we have wished for than to see them both progress to the semi-final stage.
Ian Runcie and club secretary, Stuart Robertson, both used their intimate knowledge of the Angus venue to easily qualify in this the most prestigious of all competitions, Stuart also acknowledging the knowledge of his boat partner who could not have been more helpful.
In the Scottish rivers heats on the river Tummel at Pitlochry a few days before, Ian Runcie and Jock Craig both struggled with the new system of moving beats several times during the day and Jock was frustrated to sit out an hour when the fish started to rise to a big hatch of fly. But, as he says, that's fishing.
The outbreak of disease on the two Esks has disappointed everyone in what has been the best spring for many years.
The big concentrations of fish due to low water conditions obviously helped the rapid spread especially in the vicinity of Edzell, where samples have been collected by the fisheries board bailiffs although board administrator Marshall Halliday is not hopeful of finding a cure as previous investigations by the fisheries' laboratories have come to not solution.
Nature, however, may have come to the rescue with rain over the weekend and with the water rising the fish will have spread out into the upper reaches of the river and the concentration problem will be of the past and we hope to see the disease situation improve in the fresh water.
We are now only a few days away from the end of catch and release for this season and many anglers who do not fish due to the embargo will be joining the anglers on the banks of the river, hoping to get their first fish of the season.
They will find salmon throughout both Esks and the first of the seatrout are beginning to show. We all hope that the seatrout will return in the numbers of their salmon cousins and of course the grilse cannot be too far away also.
However, both runs of fish will, I'm afraid, have to run the gauntlet of the coastal nets and we all know what that has meant in the past.
Let's hope for good water levels to draw them straight into the rivers this summer.
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Friday 25 May 2012
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