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Prices for 2008

Salmon:

Adult £95. Concessionary £60. Tidal £70.

7 Day Visitor £75. 1 Day Visitor £30.

Trout:

Adult £65. Concessionary £45. Coarse £27.

To apply please follow instructions on the Prices page no permits will be issued until the third week in January.

February 1st. 2008 Salmon season began to-day with a cold very windy day with heavy snow showers. The Coquet was carrying around 2foot extra water rising by late afternoon with a poor colour. Around 25 -30 Anglers turning out using spoons, toby, rapalas ,devon minnows and flies. No fish seen or caught.

February 2nd Water conditions slightly better to-day but still no fish caught.

Congratulations go to Mr John Foster from Warkworth, who caught the first Salmon of the 2008 season, Friday Feb 8th at 12.50pm at the Streamfoot Warkworth on a Black and gold Devon minnow the fish was in beautiful condition and weighed in at 10 lbs.

March 29th There has been very little happening over the past few weeks on the Coquet and the Tyne. Two Salmon reported caught and safely released on the Tyne, the biggest was a fish of fourteen pounds. Both the Tyne and the Coquet have been restocked with Brown Trout, so once the weather and water warm up then sport will pick up. Traditional patterns March Brown, Greenwells, Snipe and Purple, Partridge and Orange, PTN, and Hares Ear will all be worth trying at this time of the year.

April 10th.  At Rothbury there is around 18 inches of extra water in the Coquet this morning with a good dark peaty colour. The Trout fishing on both Tyne and Coquet has been very slow of late, water temperatures are still low 6degrees at Rothbury. There has been sparse hatches of flies but the Trout that have been caught are mostly on goldheads or heavier spiders. Best fish to date was taken last week at Pauperhaugh and weighed 1 lb 4ozs. There has been a couple of pairs of Sand Martins seen in the Rothbury area last week, so perhaps summer is not to far away after all.

April 20th. Trout are at last starting to come to the fly, best fish so far was caught at Rothbury last week around the 1lbs 8ozs caught by Trevor Dobson on a GRHE. The Trout was in very good condition well marked.

Game Fishing Supplies at Morpeth, are having an open afternoon on April 27th 12.00 till 4.00pm, all Northumbrian Anglers Federation members are welcome. Refreshments are available, there will be a 15% discount on purchases below £100, and a 20% discount on purchases over £100.  

May 5th.  Landing net found to-day at Stream foot, left with Judith at Coquet Lodge. 2 nice Sea Trout caught and released at Stream Foot last weekend both caught on a Devon Minnow. John Foster took and released his second Salmon of the season this afternoon again caught at the Stream foot, on a Black and Yellow Devon Minnow, the fish weighed around the 8lbs mark. A very good Brown Trout of 2lbs 8ozs was taken on Saturday caught on a Nymph, at Pauperhaugh.

June 7th. After a very poor start to May the fishing has gradually picked up as the month progressed, with good catches of Salmon Sea Trout and Brown Trout  Rob  Newton had a good Salmon from Merryshields weighing 12lbs.Graham Love has had a Salmon and Sea Trout both to the fly from the Coquet, Leigh Final also catching Sea Trout. Tommy Middlemass had a nice Salmon and the best reported to date from the Coquet was a 10 lb fish for Darren Ewart. Paul Nelson caught a sea liced Grilse of around 7lbs at the Gravels yesterday. The first Salmon to be caught above Pauperhaugh was reported last weekend a good clean fish of 6lbs caught on worm and safely released from the Thrum Mill Rothbury. Brown Trout are at last feeding well good bags reported from Rothbury, Pauperhaugh, and the Felton areas with alot of fish being returned. The biggest Brown to date and leading the way for the Centenary Trophy was caught last weekend by local angler Keith Young the fish weighed in at 5lbs 1oz  and was taken with worm from the Rothbury area.

June 17th. On June 15th the lead for the Centenary Trophy has now changed hands Darren Ewart  leads the way with a 6lbs 2oz Brown Trout, caught on a Black Pennall while out Salmon fishing. On the same day Neal Owen and Robert Milligan caught and released two Salmon of 8lbs and 7 lbs. June 16th saw 10 Salmon caught ranging from 6lb, the best fish recorded was 13 lbs, caught by Ant Dunn on Prawn, James Armstrong, Chris Watson and Darren Ewart all taking fish.

June 22nd. Sunday afternoon there was around 14 inches of extra water in the Coquet light coloured gradually darkening as the day went on. Sea Trout reported caught at Pauperhaugh earlier this week. Two Salmon in the Wagtail area on Prawn. Graham Love had a Sea Trout from the Felton area on fly. A Salmon of 8lbs 7ozs taken on worm by Keith Young in the Rothbury area, also another good sized Salmon snapped a worm angler in the same area. Two Sea Trout reported caught on fly this afternoon on the lower reaches.

July 1st. With the extra water in the Coquet last week the sport has once again picked up well. Good numbers of Salmon and Sea Trout reported coming to the net, fish have been reported right through the system. Best Sea Trout was 5 lb caught on Mallard and Claret, by Leigh Final who also released fish in the 3lb class. Best Salmon reported was 12 lbs on a Rapala  caught by Dave Murray from the Felton area. Martin Goward took a good silver fish of 6lbs on a Conrad, Darren Ewart continued his good fortunes with a Salmon Grilse of 6lbs also on the fly. Rothbury angler Dave Smith had a good Salmon of 10lbs on worm from the Thrum Mill area, Sea Trout also coming from the same place. Best fish from the Pauperhaugh area was around 3 to 4 lbs. Salmon and Sea Trout seen moving through the pools on the beats above Rothbury. More rain forecast for the next few days so the sport may pick up again as the extra water comes down.