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News: Sunday 29th August 2010
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Salmon total: 124 Sea trout: 19 Ladder count: 3751 Largest salmon: 20lbs
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Salmon News
Last week was slower due to the continuing low water and a much lighter fishing effort but Jim Kennedy had a 3lbs grilse on Tuesday and Ally Gowans a 7lbs fish on Thursday, both off Pitlochry bank. Jez Heber had a grilse on Thursday and Jonathan Boyle a 3lbs seatrout today, both off Portnacraig. Rob Lodder had 2 grilse, both around 3lbs, off Lower Tummel yesterday. Sea trout have been a greatly increased catch this season with 19 so far recorded by salmon anglers on our waters.
This week things have slowed down considerably. We only managed a single fish, off Portnacraig bank, and the run of grilse has dropped off over the last few days. Fishing effort is also very light which you might expect at this time of year. However, pods of fish will continue to come through and if we get a lift in water, numbers might well increase again.
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Virginia Fraser with her first ever salmon, a liced 5lbs grilse on a monkey fly
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Ticket outlets; Fishtay and Pitlochry Tourist Information Centre Tel no. 01796472215
Trout News The river trout fishing has been good recently, both during the day and in the evening with some good trout of up to 2.5lb being reported.
Ian Beckett, the Club’s loch warden, reports that both Loch Bhac and Loch Kinardochy are fishing well, and this can be clearly seen in the catch returns we have been receiving recently, which show good numbers of rainbow trout of about 1½ lb being caught on Loch Bhac and good catches of brown trout on Loch Kinardochy, mainly of about ¾ lb in weight but with individual fish of up to about 2 lb. Ian reports that top of the water tactics are doing well on both lochs, as are rainbow trout methods on Loch Bhac. A report came in recently of a really nice fish off Kinardochy. Bill Bright was the lucky angler and the brownie weighed 3lbs plus.
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Parasite threat If you have fished abroad recently, or are from abroad and are going to be fishing in the UK, please read this important item carefully. The Tay Board’s recommendation is that all anglers sign a declaration before they are allowed to fish that their equipment (including bags, waders, landing nets, lines) has not been used outside the UK recently, or if it has, that it has been disinfected by thorough drying at a minimum of 20oC for at least two days, or by other approved means. This is because of the concern that anglers who have fished abroad recently could, unless they take precautions, bring in a highly virulent parasite Gyrodactylus salaris on their fishing equipment, which would have disastrous consequences to Scottish salmon. The parasite is present in Norway, Sweden, Finland, Russia, Denmark, Germany, France, Spain and Portugal. Some other European countries could also have it too. The UK and Ireland are free of it. It occurs on several species of fish, but, other than salmon, most fish species are relatively resistant to it. Indeed, in parts of Russia, Finland and Sweden, the particular strains of salmon found are relatively resistant too. This is not the case with the salmon found in the UK and Ireland, which have been shown to be highly susceptible, and the parasite would spread quickly and devastate the salmon population in any affected river. Indeed, it would mean pretty well the end of that river as a salmon river. It is not just salmon anglers who need to take precautions. We get visitors from Scandinavia and the continent who fish for grayling on our internationally famous stretch of the River Tummel, for example, and anglers from Scotland sometimes fish in Scandinavia or the continent. While PAC is not yet asking anglers to sign a declaration before fishing, we do expect all anglers who have fishing equipment that has been used abroad in the last few months to ensure that it has been properly disinfected before fishing. There is further information on the FishTay website (see below).
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Other useful local information...... For information on other fishing available locally, visit the FishTay and Fishing in Perthshire websites or click on Fishing Centres on the Angling in Tayside website. FishTay is also good for detailed river height information across the whole Tay system and has a general news page. For detailed information on Tay Board activities, please visit the Tay Board website. Although still under development, it includes much of interest, and a visit is recommended. For weather forecasts, try the Tayside page of the Met Office website with its excellent rainfall radar animation.
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