Salmon on river Wye, Jumps in to canoe!

Mostyn · #1 (**permalink**) 18-08-2010, 07:31 PM

Hi All,

Any of you get the WUF newsletter? Apparently, there were 7, or 8, canoe's traveling down a low water pool on the river Wye, they were really enjoying themselves! Shouting and laughing out loud! The Salmon was awaken from rest and started whizzing around the pool and leaping; on one of it's acrobatic leaps, it landed in one of the canoes! According to the eye witness, the slippery customer was eventually returned safely to the water!

I don't know how to post the email letter on to the forum!

But there's bound to be someone who also receives the newsletter, who could post a copy on here.

Ephemerella · #2 (**permalink**) 18-08-2010, 07:48 PM

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Subject: [Newsletter] WUF Update
Date: Wed, 18 Aug 2010 14:37:08 +0100

Wye and Usk Foundation Update

18th August 2010

We start with a report from our special correspondent on the lower Wye:

“Yesterday I was fishing a pool which I knew held a salmon but despite my best efforts, it remained firmly in its lie, unmoved by my tempting offers.”

“I sat on a stone to consider my next cunning plan which undoubtedly would deceive this difficult adversary when a band of howling banshees descended upon the river in the form of the dreaded day tripper canoeist. There were seven or eight vessels and the occupants were clearly having a wonderful time splashing, shouting and shrieking their way downstream in a tight group.”

“The commotion aroused my salmon from its slumber and it charged around the pool leaping from the water, finally landing in the foot well of a canoe at the centre of the mayhem. After a couple of minutes chasing a very slippery customer around the boat they finally claimed their prize and sportingly returned the fish to the river.”

“Moral of the story? It's clear.... I will have to buy a megaphone and canoe to keep in the "special tactics" section of my tackle box.”

For those interested this is the rest of the update:

Quote:

Are there changes afoot? Metcheck, that renowned purveyor of unfulfilled promises of watery gifts predicts the arrival of a monsoon ...next week (although if we added up the amount of rain predicted to fall next week, Builth would average over 100” per year!) Seth has returned from Scotland with tales of too much water....It is surely our turn for some heavy rain!

I know many of you will be waiting for a chance to wet a line for salmon in the remaining 8 weeks of the season: Don’t give up yet! In advance of any rain, Grayling are starting to appear more regularly in trout fishers catches and on some of the quieter evenings a good rise has taken place. Coarse fishing has been steady. Please see reports on The Wye and Usk Foundation - Feedback

We have a new beat – Wyastone Leys, just over 1 mile single bank just upstream of Monmouth. Early Sept start, coarse only for now.

If you have visited the rivers or driven past, in the last week or so, you cannot help but notice the prolific growth of Himalayan balsam, now in flower. Monnow Fisheries Association Volunteers are working downstream in a serious attempt to eradicate the plant on Honddu, Dore and Monnow. If you have a spare moment please help by pulling it out particularly where you can see there has been some recurrence in an otherwise balsam free area. In fact anywhere would be a help!

All the best from the Wye & Usk Foundation.

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