These shots of a Kingfisher were captured by David Marles on a recent trip to the river.
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Good Brownie
A good brown trout recently caught by Giles Hammersley at Staverton.
Dartmoor Sea Trout
A reminder that our membership includes permission to fish the Dutchy water on Dartmoor. (Subject to level of membership)
This sea trout estimated at 3-3.5lbs was caught by a visiting angler staying at Two Bridges who hadn’t fished for peal for many many years.
He encountered it at the tail of Brakey Firs, first week in June. Quite fresh so must have run hard and fast on high water. Midnight. He was concerned about the disease on its snout but happy that it swam away strongly.
Some Totnes fish counter photos
These are some selected fish counter photos from May/June this year. Some of these fish are fairly large. Because these photos are from above, it is not entirely possible to distinguish between Salmon and Sea Trout but the longer ones are probably salmon. As a guide to length, the electrode strips are 45cm apart.
Stonefly on the menu down on the Dart
Here’s a good photograph sent in by Dave Johns. It shows a Demoiselle fly eating what looks like a stonefly (two tails?) beside the Dart.
Bird life on the Dart
Just posted on the Photo Galleries page, some photos from member David Marles Showing a Dipper collecting food and this great shot of it feeding its young. Also a couple of good shots of a Grey Wagtail. (Full size pics in gallery)
The start of a sea trout career
You may remember the 4½ lbs brown trout caught by Luke’s young son Ruben while fishing for salmon with his dad back in March.
More recently, in the first week of September, Ruben caught his first fly-caught sea trout at night.
Caught on an up-river beat, the fish had been in for a couple of months and weighed 1¾ lbs.
Nice start to the weekend
Robin Thorn had a good night on Friday on an up-river beat. The Sea Trout pictured was a good 30 ins long, estimated at 8 or 9 pounds.
Robin also had one of 2.5 lbs and two of 4 lbs in the same session.
Visitors tickets to be available again
Our fishing has been closed to visitors since the beginning of lockdown. Previous to this, tickets were available from the Dartmoor Lodge Hotel. We are pleased to say that the Dartmoor lodge will be reopening on the 13th July, when visitors tickets will again be available.
How has Totnes weir pool fished?
Since fishing restarted last month, TWP has fished reasonably well, with a decent number of sea trout caught up to 5 or 6 pounds.
In May, about 400 fish passed through the fish counter, mainly sea trout. In June about 150 had been counted at the last check.
Of course the fishing in TWP will now tail off as the fish move upstream.
Oddly, given their prevalence over the past few years, no sea lice have been seen on fish and no fish with saprolegnia fungus infestations have been reported. Could this be some effect of lockdown or is it just coincidence?