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Late season salmon fishing back on my favourite river

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Highland Fishing Diary

Highland Fishing Diary

8 ай бұрын

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This is probably the last video I'll put together from my 2023 season salmon fishing. The footage is from a few short sessions on one of my favourite club rivers, the same one as in my last video.
2023 was my best season in terms of numbers of salmon/grilse in the 17 yrs I've lived here. I ended up with 9 fish which I was really pleased with, I think my previous best was 6 fish. Unfortunately, looking through the club returns is looks like once again there were not many salmon / grilse caught across our rivers and obviously reflects the precarious position many west coast rivers are in, rivers like this one that use to support really good numbers in the past. There is still a lot of work to be done to help our wild Atlantic salmon and sea trout.
As always, many thanks for watching and I hope you enjoyed it. Feel free to leave me a comment if you want.
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@Hardlinesangling
@Hardlinesangling 8 ай бұрын
Great video Matt hooe you have a good closed season looking forward to the 2024 one already.
@highlandfishingdiary8818
@highlandfishingdiary8818 8 ай бұрын
Cheers Toby, you too 👍 not done anything really other than a couple of quick attempts at rainbows as we can fish Loch Leathan until 30 Nov, but no luck there. The club’s boats got cleaned and put away last weekend so yeah, roll on next season.
@mikef6114
@mikef6114 8 ай бұрын
Thanks for the video.great to see. All the best Matt. Maybe look you up next year if I manage across to Skye.
@highlandfishingdiary8818
@highlandfishingdiary8818 8 ай бұрын
Cheers Mike, that’d be good give me a shout if you are across. All the best.
@mikef6114
@mikef6114 8 ай бұрын
I agree with Matt on this one Martin. Catching them allows us to assess their condition and determine if there are significant changes in their health, size and condition year on year. When i catch them i carefully unhook them and carefully return them. I now have records on sea lice damage that i can show Marine Scotland to apply pressure on the fish farms to relicate their farms in locations that will cause least damage to wild salmon and sea trout runs in sensitive areas. Matt's fish wasnt red- it was a female grilse darken down as they approach spawning time. Their bodies have a purple tinge to them and their heads go blackish.
@highlandfishingdiary8818
@highlandfishingdiary8818 8 ай бұрын
Cheers Mike appreciate that, you articulated that a lot better than me! You do right keeping records as who else would? The last thing any of us want is to be doing the wrong thing, we do our best and I think the reality is we aren’t anywhere near the top of a list, if there was one of the things contributing negatively to salmon stocks in particular. Bearing in mind, it is often anglers that contribute to putting in the measures to help these fish e.g stocking projects, habitat improvement etc. Cheers.
@yakmueller
@yakmueller 8 ай бұрын
Very good. I headed back down south the day before you had that fish. Looks like I should have stayed. 🙄 I am already looking forward to my trip next year... I may even fit in two!
@highlandfishingdiary8818
@highlandfishingdiary8818 8 ай бұрын
Thank you. Well I certainly wish you luck for your trips next season and I hope you get rain and decent conditions if you head to the rivers or on the lochs if that’s where you are headed. All the best 👍
@martin7955
@martin7955 8 ай бұрын
Not sure fish that red and late in year should e fished for
@highlandfishingdiary8818
@highlandfishingdiary8818 8 ай бұрын
Cheers for sharing your thoughts I didn’t think this fish was that ‘red’. Maybe this is the way it will go and tbh if I thought it would work and bring stocks back I’d be all for it, but I don’t think it would. I think the impact a handful of fly anglers can have is overplayed. The restrictions always seem to be imposed on rod anglers while other pressures are just left to get on with it - if anglers hadn’t been out in early October we’d never have known about the latest series of farmed fish entering our wild rivers. I’m fishing well within the rules and unfortunately what runs we have tend to be later, we have no spring run or anything like that. I fish fairly regularly for sea trout in July and August and very rarely encounter any salmon or grilse, it’s not usually until September that we see fish. We return all our fish maybe anglers will have to stop completely meaning we just can’t fish for salmon at all - meanwhile there will be no restrictions on any of the other factors that are significantly contributing to migratory fish decline. We’d then have no anglers out to even know roughly the numbers of fish about or keep any eye of the rivers because I can guarantee someone would be out trying to catch these few fish and they won’t be returning them to the river. All the best.
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