Enjoying your videos. Used to fish this stretch of the Almond in the late 1970’s and caught my first salmon just down from the weir pool. Used to rake out some interesting coins in the gravel that must have got washed down from the weir pool in the spates! Happy memories of this river. Thanks for uploading and I hope the fishing improves for you in 2024. Tight lines!
Enjoyed following your fishing and I wish you luck for wherever your winter fishing takes you. You raise some good points on issues facing rivers and the housing sutuation, I just hope things improve. Hopefully you have better luck with the rods next season, you’ve had a bad run of luck with breaks. All the best.
I've pretty much gave up fishing the dries on the local since about July mate, rises have been non existent. I've been fishing spiders upstream on a short cast if the waters low, and down and across if a wee bit higher. The fish hit it like a dry, it's brilliant fun, and I've had a few good fish too, 2lbers and one at over 4lb. Peacock body, partridge hackle, the trout love it.
I fish the almond up in Livingston area and it's been not too bad for me, relatively small trout this season but had 9 in a session twice. I do spin with small mepps 0 and 1s had a 2 and half pounder biggest this year. Would never chap a fish, they all go back! 💯 agree there mate. Conservation of the river is key. Tight lines
Ive had some good fish this year, but Im worried that i wont ever see them again. too many wee wanks looking for clicks on instagram. I never made it up to the livi end of the river this season, too much else going on, but its on the cards for next year.
Nice one Chris . Like yourself I said last year I would give the grayling fishing on the Tweed a go to try and get my first one . Got to do it next year , club member Daniel was telling me about it seems a great ticket for the price 👍
Aye, daniel and his dad go down there a fair bit, and they have only ever said good things. Ive had a lot on the past few months, but Im def going to get myself onto the water as soon as I can.
Well done man! Totally agree with the environmental issues! One good thing, the wild swimmers and kayackers etc kicking off big style when they get nasty bacterial infections from the river is another pressure on government to act. I have to keep an eye out (along with others in my group - friends of the river yarrow) for storm drain effluent. Although it's only fishing for small brownies it's a local gem and we want to keep it that way. I did a utube video asking anglers to support and subscribe to the angling trust a while back, but very poor viewing figures! I recognised a few of those places you fished from my visit a few weeks back, wall pool etc. But I had low water, so it was difficult during the day. I reckon a big streamer or 2 small sea trout flies fished down and across for the water you had on the last day? Keep em coming, look forward to your Tweed grayling adventure! 👍👍
Its a shame that about 90% of anglers are happy to use the river, but wont lift a finger to do anything about its upkeep and welfare. like you say, if this was a local teams football pitch that was being eroded and dumped on, there would be uproar and the BBC would be there filming charity fundraisers, but because its the river nobody gives a toss. I suppose we cant expect them to when we dont seem to care much either. Ive got a few streamers ready for next week. the weather is a bit unsettled, but all I need is a day of light rain that coincides with the tide, and I reckon I could lose all of my flies in the trees on the opposite bank, no problem at all.
Cheers from Peter in Maine USA. I'm glad I just found your channel and I am sorry about fishing winding down. You have Salmon and sea trout to go; Oh! boy maybe good stuff will happen. You have a great voice and commentary. Thank you very much; great video.
A fine video and an excellent, engaging commentary. What a bloody awful season that was, down to a range of factors no doubt. Seems the days of the huge fly hatches are a thing of the past, certainly on my local river anyway. We had a new housing development in our village 10 years ago. 100 or so new, super expensive houses. Let's say the average is 2 people per house - that's a lot of extra sewage loading in a village of what was about 1000 individuals. Is it a coincidence that over the past few years the river has been overtaken by streamer weed? Then there's the farmers............ 😒. Anyway, let's hope the coming winter sharpens the appetite; I'm sure come 2024 we will all be raring to get going again!.
Aye, theres always next time. i dont want to say that things couldnt get much worse, but we know that they can. at least now theres nowhere to hide for the wallopers that have been dumping thier waste into the water. looking forward to seeing you out on your lecky bike again.
aye, i keep seeing people on facebook and discord posing with chapped wild browns and the admins are congratulating them. I know that at least one of them is a bailiff on his local water too. why would you encourage poaching if youre responsible for controlling it? grown men feart o wee bams.
As you say a perfect storm. Hundreds of houses being built in Crediton so hundreds of extra toilets/showers being installed. Strangely no mention of an upgrade to the sewage works! But don't worry the new proposal from the water companies is to raise our bills by £150 to sort the rivers out. WTF. I hope you have better conditions for next season and get a few more videos out.👍
We really do need to take a stand, but the only person making any noise is Feargal Sharkey. Fair play to the man, but nobody takes him seriously. Im hoping that next year will be better, but one good year isnt enough when we have to deal with our rivers dying on thier arse, and watch it happen in real time.
I think your final point really nailed it. People look at the river but not in it! The problems are all hidden. If this destruction was on land and visible, then there would be uproar (or maybe not in this country).As I said in another reply somewhere, the money always trumps any environmental concerns.
I was fishing the almond a few weeks ago and I met a foreign family (which were all spinning) and the guy told that he caught a 6 pound trout and he showed me proof! and the he told me he had fucking killed it. I have yet to report it as I don’t know how to as I just a kid.
If you see somebody poaching and arent confident in challenging them, you can call or email the club secretary. Did he say that he had caught that fish in the almond?
Almost once, but I wasnt ready and pulled the hook from its mouth. There are salmon in the water, and Ive seen a few over the past couple of years. I know a few of the regulars managed one or two last year, dunno about this season though.
