salmondan
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Tides
Feb 25, 2008 20:26:24 GMT
Post by salmondan on Feb 25, 2008 20:26:24 GMT
In a reply on another thread (running fish/resident fish), and not wishing to hijack a thread I would also concentrate your effort to times when a run of fish can be expected to be passing through, check the tide tables. When fishing the lower reaches of the river, and also when fishing tidal reaches, at what part of the tide would the chance of a fish be highest? And how long does it take fish to reach beats two, three or even ten miles upstream? My experience in tidal water leans toward (roughly) two hours before high tide as being the best time to see/catch fish. Then again, my experience is very limited. As for the length of time thing, the ghillie on Hoddom (Annan) expects fish two hours after high tide, 6 to 7 miles from the sea. Does this ring true on most rivers?
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Tides
Feb 25, 2008 23:37:23 GMT
Post by baroness on Feb 25, 2008 23:37:23 GMT
The only river I have any extensive experience of this is the Ness. The beats, as you leave the tide are IAC, Ness-side, Ness Castle, Laggan and Dochfour. If fishing the IAC water when fish are running in numbers and water and other conditions are conducive to them pausing long enough to take a fly I would concentrate my effort on starting 2-3 hours before high tide and fish hard until the flood. This beat is just above the tide, and fish arrive minutes after leaving the salt water. At Ness-side 1-2 hours before the high tide until about an hour after seems to be the prime time, and so on up to Dochfour, about 4 miles above high tide, where I have, over the years, tried to find a correlation between the tide, and the arrival of new fish and have been driven to the conclusion that by there there are so many variables that the only answer is to fish all the time, so as to have a fly in the water all the time, as fish are arriving all the time. For what it is worth, it would seem that on the Ness fish start to run on the half flood, and progress upstream at about 1 mph. Different fish go faster or slower and the "shoal" effect is lost after 4-5 miles
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