SEA TROUT

[tote 856]

Hooked this Sea Trout at 1am on Saturday morning on a size 8 teal blue and silver double.It took me over 150 yards down the river [Nith] but eventually it tired and I got it out.It weighed 5 1/2lb.

 

[mackem 26,946]

Whats the run like at the moment where you are Tote?Nice fish

[ferretville 69]

Clean looking fish there tote bet ye had fun with him lol

[tote 856]

Whats the run like at the moment where you are Tote?Nice fish

 

It's pretty poor mackem.

[mackem 26,946]

I always found the best runs on the north-east england rivers are august and september

[tote 856]

Sadly the Nith like the Annan and the Border Esk don't get anything like the runs of sea trout they used to.

 

In the mid 1960's rod catch returns topped 9500.

 

In the early 1980's that figure had a high of 6500.

 

In 2006 the rod catch returns didn't reach 1000.

 

That gives us an idea of how bad it has become.

[Aled 506]

Nice one Tote.

I managed one on the worm at the end of May, have not had a touch since! Runs aint wat they used to be on the Tywi any more either.

Tight Lines

Aled

[leegreen 2,181]

Yes my friend, well done . As you have mentioned they are sadly becoming less and less .

[mackem 26,946]

I used to live withing a few hundred yards of what was then one of the best sea-trout rivers in England,I actually phoned a friend(nope,wasnt a contestant on a Chris Tarrant show)yesterday who still lives in the same village,and he laughed and told me the fish were starting to run