The Lower River Taw Blog
Last Updated 07/05/2010 21:09
| 10/03/2010 08:33 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries (Administrator) |
New SeasonThe season has started and we are all looking forward to perhaps a better year. River levels are holding up well, but some warmer spring weather and some fresh will encourage the early fish into the system. The bigger springers will run the river early and push on as far up stream as possilbe, even entering in Feb. If you are lucky enough to have a springer head and tail in front of you, cover him slowly, the chances are he will take. Just out of their marine environment they are nervous and unsure but will certainly take a well presented fly. So get down to the river and try your luck. During the close season we have seen the formation of ULTRA ( Upper & Lower Taw Rip Association) we look forward to the discussion and actions the two associations will bring to the Taw. Tight lines. View Comments (2)
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23/03/2010 22:59 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries| 03/10/2009 14:34 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries (Administrator) |
End of seasonWell that's it for this year on the Taw. It has been an indifferent season for many, some beats have had some decent sport while others have had little, although we have had the water. Seatrout fishing has been quite good thankfully. I took 4 rods out on the river towards the end of Sept, breakfast at High Bullen, one small peal and a couple of parr, two unplanned swims and lunch at the Rising Sun, oh and a 2.5lb seatrout. Mark Atkinson did manage to land and return a cock fish of 15lb on the upper middle Taw before the close of play. The last 2 weeks of the season saw very little fishing effort, I think the total rod catch for the Taw and its tribs this season will be around the 150 mark, we will see. Any stories, techniques, flies or controversy please send in your comments. No Comments
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| 17/09/2009 22:15 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries (Administrator) |
Lovely weatherA few fish caught during the last good water, a pod moving through and were intercepted, grilse and salmon up to 13lb some of the larger fish were very fresh, nice to see. The river is very quite, fished my beat this week and would have normally expected to have seen a fish move, certainly as the light started to fade, but not the case. It will be interesting to see the numbers of fish going over Head weir this autumn when the heavy rains arrive again. Traditionally the autumn run brings all those fish from the lower river and estuary racing up the Taw and Mole and gives us stap shot of what is present. Although we are experiencing perhaps low numbers of salmon this year, imagine if we had a fish counter installed on the system, we,ve managed web cams. No Comments
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| 10/09/2009 23:28 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries (Administrator) |
Catch reportThe river is dropping and losing its colour, the early mornings and evenings offer the best chance of a fish. A nice fish of around 15lb was landed and retunred from a middle Taw beat on Tuesday followed by a couple of clean grilse mid week. With the lack of salmon compared to last year at least the seatrout have provided some good sport this season with a number of fish in the 3 - 7lb bracket. Is this due to good spawnings in 05 & 06, fry numbers, par smolting and survival at sea. The Taw is in pretty good order lovely fly hatches and invertbrates, numbers of brown trout and par evident all indicating towards an improving habitat and food chain. So what about the returning adult salmon this year ? View Comments (2)
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| 09/09/2009 09:04 by Richard at Blakewell Fisheries (Administrator) |
Catch returnsOne fish that I know of yesterday, 10lb very coloured cock fish on the Mole and a few peal. A nice fish of around 10lb lost yesterday after about a 10 minute scrap, bad luck. The water is still perfect, going to be a bit bright during the day, that will be the sun shining ! There does seem to be a lack of fish present, with conditions as good as it gets we should be seeing alot more back end and resident fish about. Tight lines. View Comments (3)
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