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At the suggestion of various members and given the magazines will run a mile from criticising a piece of kit, here is your chance to tell us what you really think about a rod, reel, line, lure... keep it legal please! Wild salmon populations in both the Atlantic and Pacific basins have declined dramatically over the last century and many populations are at imminent risk of extinction. The World Salmon Forum (WSF) brings together a coalition of scientists, advocates, and foundations dedicated to sustaining wild salmon. WSF will challenge the way in which salmon are managed and investigate the science required to underpin effective management. It is very difficult to measure angling effort. We got a signing in book at the Hut and members can text or leave me messages but some of them either forget or can't be bothered and I find myself noting whose car is there as I drive by or meet anglers on the bank to get a better idea of rod effort. So I’d still like to say the Dovey but from what I can gather and have noticed for the past five years is that the river Spey has so many large accidentally caught sea trout from May onwards and still seems to have good night fishing in June for those who still take a week on Grantown, that I’m inclined to think it may be the Spey.

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For sinking tips or full sinking fly lines I'd shorten my leader right down to as little as 3ft with a very heavy 'type 7' (or heavier) tip or to a 4ft to 5ft leader length with a regular 'type 3' tip as again you don't want your sink tip down and the salmon fly riding higher which it will do with a longer leader. Keeping different leader weight material coiled up in your fly box is wise so you know you've always got spares if you lose your leader as forgetting a leader spool is easy but its unnecessary to carry the entire leader spools about with you. A few neatly coiled spare leaders of varying breaking strains sit perfectly and look at home in any fly box. Choosing Which Sink Tip To Use Forum to discuss angling from kayaks, canoes, portabotes and other coastal craft. Small boat and kayak angling in Ireland. Ross probably like many other fisheries has its one season fly by nights who take a permit expecting the salmon to come to them but we have lost some committed salmon anglers who for one reason or another have decided to throw in the towel on the Wye.I have no way of telling how many salmon anglers up and down the Wye are renewing their Salmon permits for 2023 but for Ross AC I do know and we are down by one third on numbers compared to last year. I'm just glad we don't have the same level of membership costs that some on the Wye have to contend with plus the now common," exclusive access to salmon fishing from March to mid June" for considerable sums of money, WOW! The bulk and weight of a salmon fly leader should be selected based on the bulk and weight of the salmon fly being used. The art of effectively & effortlessly 'turning over' a salmon fly is 100% to do with energy transfer to the fly after the forward delivery power stroke of the cast has been applied. In other words a very light or limp leader will struggle to make that energy transfer effective all the way to a salmon fly if the leader has not been selected with the bulk and weight of the salmon fly being used. Salmon Leader Length & Breaking Strain I’ve never suggested everyone turn up en masse to the Dwyfor and I don’t recall anyone ever trying the place after seeing my reports. But as someone who has fished the West Country and south West Wales I’m grateful that the river still has runs of the very large Dovey like fish and before the school fish arrive a good average size of fish. Over 380 individual salmon flies have been catalogued for this project, representing twenty fishery districts such as Galway, Ballina, Killarney, Dublin, Ballyshannon and Lismore. These flies were often ‘dressed’ for use on specific rivers or lakes, with subtle differences in hue and colour to reflect what was believed to be the best pattern on that fishery, at a particular time of year. Fly tying involves the ‘dressing’ of a fishing hook to create an artificial fly, which is then used by anglers at the end of a rod and line to catch fish. It’s a little-known part of Ireland’s heritage but many angling shops in Ireland in the late 1800s and early 1900s employed ‘fly dressers.’ Some were considered masters of their craft, thanks to their skills, creativity and the traditional methods that they used.

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This forum is for general discussion related to Angling. Areas covered would include Media Reports, Conservation Issues and the promotion of the sport. Warden Fishings, N Tyne This is my 2022 season in a picture, -1 " and blazing sunshine, not a day for Salmon fishing Love the comment above about the Lune and not wishing to swap it for Terra Del Fuego perhaps as I feel exactly the same way about my beloved Dwyfor and the nice folk who live down there? (Given how beautiful the area is, why wouldn’t you end up as being anything other than nice lol) That's what we do at Ross. It's hard enough fishing for salmon these days we've got to share intel to put us on the water as the fish go through.

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The World Salmon Forum is designed to bring together wild salmon conservation groups from around the world to share new policies and measures that will provide for the survival of these magnificent animals. The World Salmon Forum’s mission is to sustain wild Atlantic and Pacific salmon, seatrout, and steelhead populations for the future. Salmon diversity and abundance are a gift from the past through millions of years of evolution and adaptation. Our collective stewardship should ensure that wild salmon remain a legacy for future generations. The ever patient Mrs Knollington sanctioned a visit to Lochmaddy on our first morning. I arrived at the hotel in time for the morning fishing allocation and selected a tidal pool on the excellent recommendation of John Docherty - who allocates (and runs) the fishing on behalf of the North Uist Estate. I chose the Geirreann Sea Pool, sadly family commitments prevented me fishing the fall of the tide and I got there late.Although I've previously designed excellent 'elegantly flying' Spey lines that were purposely built for turning over heavy & long sink tips of different sink densities I do have my own personal sink tip favourite that I used to fish with all year round on the deeper River Tay. That special friend is a braided core type 3 (brown) tapered tip in a 15ft length. This tip works a treat with a longish rod in the cold Spring water when you're primarily searching the slower moving water with slow fly presentation targeted at 2 ft down into the water column. In the warmer water of Summer where you're primarily looking to the faster, often shallower and better oxygenated streamy water for salmon to be in it also works a treat assuming you're able to dictate the depth and speed of your fly by mending or extended rod angle positions through the fly's swing (or both). This tip is fine on the deeper River Tay as is its big brother (Type 7) but you'd unlikely get away with these on the shallower Scottish rivers like the Dee or the Spey where you'd mainly need to be on the intermediate (Type 1.5) sink tip equivalent unless faced with a deep pool situation. Which Salmon Leader Material Is Best Truth is though, that even when I started about 20 yrs ago when the runs of salmon and sea trout were out of this world, it was never an easy river to fish but so long as I know the fish are there, blanking for nights on end has never bothered me as I consider it my fault for not solving the puzzle. It’s quite interesting to see forum members names who no longer use this forum. When it was in its prime the forum had more information than most could use 🤣. Over a hundred years after the Cork International Exhibition took place, interest in the collection was re-ignited by angling author, the late E.J. ‘Ted’ Malone, who described the collection as a “long lost treasure of Irish Angling”. Malone worked alongside Peter Kealey and Peter Dunne, all fly tying experts, to meticulously examine, photograph and record the various fly dressings. Sadly, Ted Malone passed away in 2017 and the book is dedicated to his memory. First of all after reading the June reports in the latest T&S I find it almost impossible to comprehend even with low water that a river like the Dovey had barely nothing to report in June A month that all over the U.K. would see fish well spread out by then and in the case of the Dovey the catches were too innumerable to mention anything less than three pounds