Fish from yesterday.

Red letter day for John Tarplee fishing at Coedithel with four fish caught spinning.  3x 15lbs and 1 x 12lbs
Stacklands -First salmon for Julian Lane caught on an Usk grub
Redbrook  13lbs to Simon McLucas -spinning.
Wyesham 12lbs for Roger Ward on a red Francis.


TODAY>
13lb fish to Simon MucLucas at Redbrook on a Cascade.
Another for John Tarplee at Coedithel  15lbs spinning.


Conditions pretty dire on the upper and indeed the middle river though some optimistic souls still having a go on the upper river beats. I see.  Very high temperatures the next couple of days could cause some problems with fish survival..
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------THIS FROM NRW RE REPORTS OF NET MARKED FISH;
Wouldn't be a net would it. Might cause them to actually have to do something!!!!



"Subject: RE: Net damaged salmon

Can you encourage people to take photos, where its safe to do so (fish and angler)?

Have already seen one photo, which was not at all convincing.

I note a pod of porpoise was sighted in Usk right in middle of Newport.

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Regarding the wild swimming event mentioned yesterday below are the numbers expected to be involved...   |Organiser seems to think this will have no impact on fishermen nor pose any risks whatsoever.      Another in a dream world!!!!!!

"We have 75 swimmers starting from Kerne Bridge canoe launch point, and a further 75 starting from Lower Lydbrook, with all those starting at each place staring together.  A further 100 would start about 800m upstream of Huntsham Bridge, exact location tbd."

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Regarding the recent information regarding farmed salmon perhaps we need to put our stocked rainbows in persepctive.
Had som fish to smoke from a big fish water that shall be nameless.  Three of the fish were obviously recent stock fish and very portly to say the least. Not a real fish shape fish sure.
when gutted the amount of pure fat inside was aweful, amounting to a fifth of its bodyweight. See.
below

One of the fish.about 5/6lbs

 It's belly fat and enlarged kidney etc/

 Three of the belly's
 Knife is 14" long.

Having said that the end product after smoking looks pretty good and I'm told tastes perfectly delicious!!!