Conditions continue to deteriorate with poor visibilty on the middle and lower beats.  One angler reports seeing fish at Goodrich yesterday.

Just to back up my gloomy personal views yesterday here are the catches from 1964.

Was not fishing the river for salmon myself then in any serious way but remember on to these catches must be added those of the legal estuary stop nets, the putcher ranks, the considerable poaching that went on plus those not actually reported by anglers of which there were many.

EA Annual Report from 1964
January 23.
February 109
March 636
April 891
May 833
June 662.

This was 1987

January 1.
February 17
March 78
April 281.
May 557
June 989 and so on. Total 3214 for the season

Remember in 1967 tackle was much more primitive, no flying Cs just mostly Devon minnows and Toby spoons -BUT worm, shrimp and prawn of course.   Ah well!!