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Prince Albert took it over a few years back, access is pretty much non-existent from the village side

 

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Likely yes, TAA own some water and rent other parts. The past 18 months or so some of the land has gone for sale so the leasing stopped (Fairmile & Roundthwaite), some of it for silly money IMHO.

As for the Kent I don't know what happened to Suicide Terrace pool above the footbridge, I only found out that KAA had lost that bit last season which is a shame. The PAAS stretches on the Mint above Mealbank and Patton Bridge they have had for a long time, I started fishing the Mint further down 40 years ago and they had it then.

 

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3 ft currently at the top end, should hopefully get things moving 🎣

 

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odd fish seen yesterday further down below KL so hopefully a sign of a late spring/early summer run

 

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thats what its all about - well done that man 👍

 

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One from this evening

 

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I think it’ll be better later this week with some warmer weather and the river settling for seatrout. Hopefully a few have run the past few weeks

 

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There seems to be a better stock of salmon in the river this year. Just Judging by the fish caught on our club beat and the fish I have seen show the last couple of times I have fished it. Last year there was nothing until the last two weeks of the season.

Yorkshire Fly or Bowland? Seen some superb fish on Facebook, lets hope they continue to come

 

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I fish caton, killington and the wenning...
Caton - River Lune level at Caton - GOV.UK
Killington - River Lune level at Killington - GOV.UK
Wenning - River Wenning level at Hornby - GOV.UK

Have you had many / any fish so far this season Dave?

 

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No quite a salmon but a decent sized seatrout in filthy water yesterday at Tebay, released by the family ghillie 😄

 

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Could that be a brown trout and not a tourist? Either way its a belter of a fish. Well done. Ive seen and caught big brownies up to 5/6lb whilst fishing for salmon on big dirty waters.

Specimen brownies up at Tebay this time of year are still characteristic yellow bellied from my experience. Either way its not a salmon 😄 . Nor was the one below I had below at 6am this morning just after a salmon showed in the same lie and buggered up the pool after it was hooked

 

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Crewesader6 we’ve had no water for the past month so doubtful many anglers been out on Tebay fishing. That said a few of the boys will have been out for the seatrout, I’ll find out at next committee meeting in a couple of weeks. We have a smallish rise on at the moment, if I get chance I’ll be up for a couple of hours this afternoon

 

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Wee one this morning around 4lb, another lost a bit bigger. Good water this morning but very few fish seen

 

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Few from today, high water and I thought too dirty but never say never. Not many rods on the river this afternoon

 

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Half tartan cock fish from this afternoon. Great water but sun was a pain. General feeling is that we have bits and pieces of a run of fish through the top end but with all the high water over the past couple of weeks they are spread out

 

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Was told by my youngest to add her wildlife photos in too from yesterday. Some real and some less so 😂

 

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Well I've had 5, I know of at least another 6, some anglers will undoubtedly keep catches to themselves until the end of the season. We had 47 last year, 2023 was a dire year with only 14. I doubt we will exceed last year but likely already above 2023. Its all relative from the past, less angling pressure coinciding with less fish = much lower returns. Apart from the weekend I've seen very few anglers out specifically for salmon

 

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There have been a lot more than that caught on the Lune, I've seen at least twice that many from a handful of Ribble rods who fish the Lune. Thing is many of the were clean summer fish whereas on Ribble, bar 4 exceptions,have all been coloured fish that have holed up somewhere whilst many said the lower Ribble was empty. I'm not saying there have been good runs, just better and a lot think. I often wonder how many fish run up the river early on then drop back Sept/Oct and are caught middle river when spawning hormones kick in. Whilst some do colour up in estuary a majority have been in the river somewhere .

For sure I am only referring to TAA waters, I’ve seen many pictures of fish from Bowland Anglers, Gressingham have had fish and I’ve heard of many from the bottom reaches too. Shame we had no water in August for us at the top end.