Recent Pictures

Here are some recent pictures to get the pulse racing!


Tim Smith's salmon, shortly before being released. The 9lb fish took a bottle tube fly in Top Pool on beat 3, River Lyd.





Charles Allen looks pleased with his very first sea trout. He used a Stoat's Tail on a sink tip line on beat 3.



A shoal of sea trout on the nearby River Fowey in Cornwall!

Braving The Flood

Huge amounts of rain this week has meant a fishing holiday cut short for many guests. Unfortunately, the rivers have been unfishable on most days, and even venturing outdoors has taken courage!
One new recruit to the world of fly fishing this week was Cordelia Jenkin. Fishing with Tim for a couple of days, Cordelia wasn't put off by miserable weather conditions and picked up casting a fly like a duck to water...


Cordelia hooks her first trout on a dry fly, watched by a very proud grandmother!



This one's for breakfast!



Th River Wolf was the only fishable water on Tuesday, and the upstream nymph brought Cordelia several beautiful wild brown trout...

The Beasts of Tinhay...

While taking a beginner's course yesterday, we witnessed a couple of very large brown trout attempting to savage small rainbows as guests were playing them! These huge fish have been in the hotel lake for years and feed on minnows and the smaller trout as well as insects. Hatching a plan, David used a jumbo-sized leech fly and caught one of the smaller ones... a seven-pounder! There are several fish in the lake that would dwarf even this one!

Jake Walton's Tamar salmon

Here are a couple of pictures of Jake Walton's sealiced salmon that he landed last Friday. Jake was fishing with David Pilkington on the hotel's Lower Tamar Fishery rod and used an Ally's Shrimp to tempt the fish. What a cracker!

Adam's Macnab

Yesterday, Adam Fox-Edwards became the first angler to achieve the Arundell Arms Macnab of a trout, bass and sea trout in a single day! It was exhausting to say the least, but Adam fished like a demon and met the challenge with style. The bass were heaving in the estuary, the trout proved very tricky (the weather at that point was awful!) and the sea trout... well, magnificent as always.
The pictures tell the story...




The tide starts to flood and three hopeful anglers race to the water's edge. The game is on!



Pilks' deadly sandeel imitations. What bass could refuse?



The rod tip arches over and Adam hooks his first fly-caught bass in inches of water.



Okay, it's not a monster Adam... but it counts!



The school bass were packed tightly into shoals and almost fighting to take a fly!



Small, but stunning (and very spikey!) nonetheless.



A fine packed lunch by the sea? How very civilised!



Beat 4 on the Thrushel - the quest for species number two.



It was a struggle in monsoon downpours, but Adam finally nymphed a nice brown trout of around 10 inches.



Haunting... waiting for sea trout time.



Adam finally clinches victory, with this gleaming, fresh sea trout of 1lb 4oz - congratulations!

The Big One

This huge sea trout of 12lb was trapped in the Gunnislake fish trap by the Environment Agency in late May. The Agency uses the Gunnislake trap to monitor the local salmon and sea trout populations. The cracking fish is now more than likely residing somewhere in the River Lyd!