THE THOU’
Yesterday we hit 1000+ fish. The river is in great condition and was carrying a little colour. The kind of colour we like. A greenish tint of melt water but not so coloured as to require enormous fly tactics.
Beat 7 still leads the charge in terms of catches with 3,2 and 1 close behind. 5 and 4 are fishing well and 6, 8 and 9 are picking up but still quite sporadic.
I was sitting down yesterday morning to write this very report when I spotted Reynir’s instagram story and saw he had a double hook up. I dashed up to see what all the excitement was about.
Rob O and Gareth J were having a wild time on Skollatangi. They were into their 8th fish before 10am and the sport continued well as the morning progressed. The ended up with 18 fish for the morning but what happened at the end was simply magical.
We had decided to move down to Moldarhylur for the last hour. Rob was just finishing up beneath the, subsequently dubbed, tractor pool. He hooked into a fish that fought hard briefly before thinking it preferred the safe and calm of the sea. Off it went at an alarming lick.
Reynir and Rob gave chase and after what seemed like an age Gareth and I went to see what all the fuss was about.
The way it moved it felt like this fish was hooked in the tail but after a 40 minute tussle the monster was tamed not far from the run into Moldarhylur. A splendid 93cm fish starting to show it’s time in the river. What a scrap.
With 12 minutes left on the clock we arrived at Moldarhylur via the more traditional method and fished hitched sun rays into the swirling water that Moldarhylur is known for.
First Rob and then Gareth hooked and landed beautiful fresh fish that came up and smashed down on the fly. What a way to finish.
The upshot of all of this is that we have started to see fish more active in the surface and therefore a few people are fishing intermediate tips and slower sink poly leaders. Don’t get me wrong there are people fishing deep still with good results but with everyone ding things a little differently it means the fish don’t get used to the same thing each session.
