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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.
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