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Trout fishing at the Arundell Arms started slowly in April, with overnight frosts and easterly winds keeping water temperatures low and the trout lethargic. Despite this, the hotel recorded 258 brown trout for the month, with the majority caught in the last week or so when a bout of warmer weather arrived. This figure is a little down on last year’s 306 for April, though up on the average for the month. Even when temperatures climbed a little, few fish were seen rising and the upstream nymph and downstream wet fly produced the lion’s share of the trout. Among the successful anglers were local rod Ben Garnett who landed 18 fish on the Thrushel - all on nymphs - and regular guest Tony Bostock, who landed 30 to 10 inches in his two afternoons’ fishing on the Wolf, again, mainly on nymphs. During April hotel instructors David Pilkington and Tim Smith started the salmon and sea trout catches rolling on the Tamar, with David landing the first sea trout of the season on the 13th – a sea-liced fish of just under 3lb – and Tim the first salmon – an eight-pounder sporting long-tailed lice – on the 14th. Both fish took size four single sea trout flies and were caught on a private beat on the lower river. With a bit of luck, warmer weather will prevail in May, interspersed with a few good spates to enliven the rivers that are currently starting to look a little low. A promising sign is that the Tamar and all of its tributaries are full of healthy sea trout smolts, which will hopefully provide us with another bumper run of school sea trout in the summer months.
At the time of writing, we have heard of a handful of sea trout caught on the lower river by keen fly fishers and one or two more salmon from private beats. A sea trout was also spotted on the lower Lyd by AA hotel guests.
As it stands, we could do with the winds shifting to a southwesterly and bringing some much-needed rain. In the meantime, the trout are rising very well to black gnat, hawthorn and olives.
At the time of writing, we have heard of a handful of sea trout caught on the lower river by keen fly fishers and one or two more salmon from private beats. A sea trout was also spotted on the lower Lyd by AA hotel guests.
As it stands, we could do with the winds shifting to a southwesterly and bringing some much-needed rain. In the meantime, the trout are rising very well to black gnat, hawthorn and olives.