Despite bright sun and soaring temperatures, the Tamar is still too high and coloured for fishing. With a bit of luck it will clear enough by tomorrow. The Lyd is in fine form for a salmon or daytime sea trout and the trout streams are once again fishable and the fish rising very well for August.
Charlie Yeoward managed a 5 1/2lb salmon from Hairy Mary Pool on the Lyd on Wednesday on a WMD fly. Yesterday, hotel guest Alex Martin enjoyed a real sporting day (full report and pics to come) with a brown trout, two sea trout and an 8lb salmon on the Lyd, following by a stunning roe buck in the evening with our hotel stalker Simon. Not a bad effort all round!
We still have some last-minute availability over the weekend for salmon and trout fishing; we will need a fair few more dry days before the rivers drop to night fishing height.
The salmon total now stands at 31 to 15lb so far and 33 sea trout to 7lb 2oz.
