{"id":3898,"date":"2013-02-19T13:28:05","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:28:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?p=3898"},"modified":"2013-02-19T13:31:29","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:31:29","slug":"opening-day-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?p=3898","title":{"rendered":"Opening Day 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five of us met for a couple of drams, a picnic lunch in David&#8217;s Treehouse, and about 3 hours of opening day (which means not very serious\/glad-to-be-on-the-river) fishing. The result was four kelts! My guess &#8211; and I have no grounds for making this statement except for a sensation in my waters &#8211; is that there aren&#8217;t any fresh fish at Finavon. For mid February that is the norm, although over the last 130 years there have been a few instances of fresh fish caught on the opening day. I caught one myself, in 1990 as I remember.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?attachment_id=3899\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3899\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3899\" title=\"David Ramsay fishing Haughs\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/David-Ramsay-fishing-Haughs.jpg\" alt=\"David Ramsay fishing Haughs\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>David Ramsay fishing through the Haughs Pool (Bogardo Beat) which is one of Finavon&#8217;s best spring pools. On the 16th of February the pool produced two well mended kelts.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The river was at a perfect height but on the cold side with the water temperature at about 36 F. No fish were seen, but a convivial day in perfect late winter surroundings was enjoyed by all.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?attachment_id=3910\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3910\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3910\" title=\"Michael Dawnay with Tally Labrador\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Michael-Dawnay-with-Tally-Labrador.jpg\" alt=\"Michael Dawnay with Tally Labrador\" \/><\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Michael Dawnay with Tally Labrador on the bank of the Haughs Pool 16\/2\/2013<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?attachment_id=3915\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3915\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3915\" title=\"Ryan Balcombe fishing Red Brae\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ryan-at-Red-Brae-Stream.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Balcombe fishing Red Brae\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>This is Ryan Balcombe of Gow&#8217;s Fishing Tackle &amp; Guns in Dundee fishing through the Red Brae. The pool looked terrific, with clear, light amber coloured water flowing over clean cobbles and gravel. If there was a fish in the pool it gave no sign of its presence!<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?attachment_id=3920\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3920\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3920\" title=\"Ryan Balcombe &amp; Michael Dawnay at the Treehouse\" src=\"http:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Ryan-Balcombe-Michael-Dawnay-at-the-Treehouse.jpg\" alt=\"Ryan Balcombe &amp; Michael Dawnay at the Treehouse\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Michael and Ryan discuss the conditions on the veranda of David&#8217;s Treehouse, the Castle Beat fishing hut.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em><\/em><\/strong>\u00a0The day ended early after some desultory afternoon fishing and a discussion about bank maintenance over lunch in DTH.<\/p>\n<p>Another season underway!<\/p>\n<p>TA<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five of us met for a couple of drams, a picnic lunch in David&#8217;s Treehouse, and about 3 hours of opening day (which means not very serious\/glad-to-be-on-the-river) fishing. The result was four kelts! My guess &#8211; and I have no grounds for making this statement except for a sensation in my waters &#8211; is that &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/?p=3898\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Opening Day 2013&#8221;<\/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":[7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3898","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-river-report","category-salmon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898","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=3898"}],"version-history":[{"count":25,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3925,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3898\/revisions\/3925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.finavoncastlefishing.co.uk\/bulletin\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}