After some excellent trout fishing over the last couple of weeks, the migratory fish are now coming to the fore. The brownies gave superb sport while rivers were low, but a five-foot flood last Friday rather spoiled dry fly fishing. On Saturday, as the spate fell away Nick Sargeant had our second sea trout of the season, a very fresh fish of around a pound, released in Silver Doctor pool on the Lyd. David Morel fished a large fly for salmon in Quarry pool on the Tamar, without success, his wife Jo followed him down and in ten minutes was playing a spanking fresh 9-pounder, carefully released after photos.
Today Mike Haines also put a large fly through Quarry pool, rewarded with another superb fresh fish, this one 31 1/2 inches, a conservative 12 pounds. Fish were sprinting over the gauging weir on beat 9a on Saturday, with more rain forecast they will just keep coming.
