{"id":1569,"date":"2011-11-08T18:09:24","date_gmt":"2011-11-08T18:09:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?p=1569"},"modified":"2012-01-04T22:15:48","modified_gmt":"2012-01-04T22:15:48","slug":"the-south-esk-in-winter-mode","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?p=1569","title":{"rendered":"The South Esk in winter mode"},"content":{"rendered":"

These bulletin blogs represent news about Finavon and the South Esk, and my views as a riparian owner. They are not the views of any other organisation, nor are they designed to promote the interests of any individual or organisation other than Finavon Castle Water and factors affecting the fishery.\u00a0 Tony Andrews<\/strong><\/em><\/strong><\/strong><\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

Walking down Milton Beat yesterday, across the two bridges and on down to David\u2019s Tree-house, I disturbed some Teal on the wildlife pond and saw at least two salmon preparing to spawn in the tail of Kirkinn, and another one scooted away from beneath the new bridge in the shallow flood channel . Winter is nearly here. The light is dusky, the sun weakening, and hours of daylight reducing noticeably each day. The winter solstice is only 36 days away.<\/p>\n

The FCW\u00a0Beat totals for the season are below: <\/strong>a feature of the season has been how evenly distributed across the 4 beats both salmon and sea trout catches have been. I think the lower catch of sea trout on Castle Beat reflects the lack of night fishing effort there.\u00a0Perhaps David’s Tree House may be just a mite too comfortable!<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Beat<\/td>\nSalmon & Grilse<\/td>\nSea Trout<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Milton<\/td>\n38<\/td>\n28<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Castle<\/td>\n31<\/td>\n17<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bogardo<\/td>\n36<\/td>\n24<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indies<\/td>\n34<\/td>\n32<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Pools Totals<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
Bridge<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tyndals<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Willows<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Upper Boat<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Volcano<\/td>\n7<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Lower Boat<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Flats<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Craigo<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Red Brae<\/td>\n15<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Kirkinn<\/td>\n5<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Pheasantry<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Nine Maidens<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Beeches<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n3<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Haughs<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Harry\u2019s Bar<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Melgund<\/td>\n11<\/td>\n8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Frank\u2019s Stream<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n14<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Indies<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n10<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Martin\u2019s Cut<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Tollmuir<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Steps & Toms<\/td>\n<\/td>\n4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Marcus House<\/td>\n9<\/td>\n6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
FCW TOTALS 2011<\/strong><\/td>\n139<\/strong><\/td>\n101<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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Salmon<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Pool \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Red Brae 15<\/p>\n

Runner up\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Frank\u2019s 14<\/p>\n

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Sea Trout<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Pools\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Willows 15<\/p>\n

Frank\u2019s 15<\/p>\n

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Most fish<\/strong><\/p>\n

Best Pool\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Frank\u2019s 28<\/p>\n

Runner up\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Willows 22<\/p>\n

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Best salmon<\/strong> \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 17lbs Volcano<\/p>\n

Best sea trout<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 4lbs 8oz Frank\u2019s<\/p>\n

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Salmon killed<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 20 = 85.62% caught & released. Thank you very much to all those visitors, syndicate members and guests who have shown their commitment to the future of the South Esk’s salmon by returning such a high proportion of their catch. I am of the view that as game anglers we have every right to kill the occasional fish, provided it meets the advice criteria of the Esk Fishery Board. So, well done!<\/p>\n

This was a slightly below par season but, in the circumstances with a warm and rather uninspiring autumn, it really wasn’t too bad. Perhaps next year….<\/p>\n

During the winter I will review\u00a0historical catches at Finavon to demonstrate that our spring catches are holding up quite well\u00a0, despite the big reduction in rod fishing effort in the last six or seven years.<\/p>\n

TA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

These bulletin blogs represent news about Finavon and the South Esk, and my views as a riparian owner. They are not the views of any other organisation, nor are they designed to promote the interests of any individual or organisation other than Finavon Castle Water and factors affecting the fishery.\u00a0 Tony Andrews Walking down Milton … Continue reading “The South Esk in winter mode”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7,4,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fishing-report","category-river-report","category-salmon","category-sea-trout"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1569"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1571,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1569\/revisions\/1571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}