Post by myotis on Aug 2, 2012 14:34:44 GMT
Although, this is more of a non-fishing report, I thought for the sake of completeness, and to promote my homeland, I would include it.
Below is how the River Eden looked when I did my pre-fishing recce. This is just West of Cupar.
What isn’t obvious from this picture is that the banks are very steep and high. From the edge, its impossible to see where the bank ends and the water begins, and most of the water is too deep for thigh waders. A large stretch is like this (but steeper, deeper and more overgrown), and I wasn’t that sure how I was going to fish it.
I couldn’t get into it as it was too deep, I didn’t have a net that would reach the water, and even if I resorted to just pulling out a fish hanging from the line, it would have been pulled up the bank and through the vegetation. Then, I would have needed to drop or throw it back into the water from several feet up. Something I wasn’t willing to do.
While I was pondering this, the weather changed, and it rained every day or every second day and the river looked like the next picture for almost all of my holiday.
So even though I had bought my season ticket, I didn’t fancy fishing it like this, and rushed off and bought my River Devon season ticket.
Interestingly, I met someone who lived near the location of the second picture (near Pitlessie) and he told me that in this stretch (not while it looked like this) he was catching brown trout, sea trout and salmon on a Pheasant Tail Nymph (not Tenkara). A week earlier just downstream from my first picture he had caught a 6.5lb salmon, but not even on a fly this time, it was a flying C.
Does reporting someone else’s catch count as a fishing report?
The very non-fishy highlight of the Eden was a family of mink playing along the waters edge of the first photograph, Oh and of course the inevitable Kingfisher, which never fails to excite.
The Eden is fishing much better than it used to and there are now reasonable catches of Salmon and Sea Trout, along with good Brownies. There is miles of fishing available, with lots of different characters (from the small and overgrown Ceres Burn to the few hundreds of metres wide part as it approaches the estuary) A Season ticket is £50 for all Species. Day Tickets are £10, but if in any one year you find you are about to buy a sixth, you can swap your five day tickets for a season ticket.
One bit of bad new for me, is that the stretch I used to fish as a lad, is no longer leased by the Eden Angling Club and its no fishing.
So there you have it, my non-fishing, fishing report.
Graham
Below is how the River Eden looked when I did my pre-fishing recce. This is just West of Cupar.
What isn’t obvious from this picture is that the banks are very steep and high. From the edge, its impossible to see where the bank ends and the water begins, and most of the water is too deep for thigh waders. A large stretch is like this (but steeper, deeper and more overgrown), and I wasn’t that sure how I was going to fish it.
I couldn’t get into it as it was too deep, I didn’t have a net that would reach the water, and even if I resorted to just pulling out a fish hanging from the line, it would have been pulled up the bank and through the vegetation. Then, I would have needed to drop or throw it back into the water from several feet up. Something I wasn’t willing to do.
While I was pondering this, the weather changed, and it rained every day or every second day and the river looked like the next picture for almost all of my holiday.
So even though I had bought my season ticket, I didn’t fancy fishing it like this, and rushed off and bought my River Devon season ticket.
Interestingly, I met someone who lived near the location of the second picture (near Pitlessie) and he told me that in this stretch (not while it looked like this) he was catching brown trout, sea trout and salmon on a Pheasant Tail Nymph (not Tenkara). A week earlier just downstream from my first picture he had caught a 6.5lb salmon, but not even on a fly this time, it was a flying C.
Does reporting someone else’s catch count as a fishing report?
The very non-fishy highlight of the Eden was a family of mink playing along the waters edge of the first photograph, Oh and of course the inevitable Kingfisher, which never fails to excite.
The Eden is fishing much better than it used to and there are now reasonable catches of Salmon and Sea Trout, along with good Brownies. There is miles of fishing available, with lots of different characters (from the small and overgrown Ceres Burn to the few hundreds of metres wide part as it approaches the estuary) A Season ticket is £50 for all Species. Day Tickets are £10, but if in any one year you find you are about to buy a sixth, you can swap your five day tickets for a season ticket.
One bit of bad new for me, is that the stretch I used to fish as a lad, is no longer leased by the Eden Angling Club and its no fishing.
So there you have it, my non-fishing, fishing report.
Graham
