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Report For: Eden Lower, Middle Glyn Freeman, River

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Eden Lower, Middle Glyn Freeman

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Species of Fish:Salmon, Sea Trout, Trout, Grayling, Chub
Season Start Date: 15/1/9  (Salmon & Seatrout)
Season End Date: 31/10/9  (Salmon & Seatrout)
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End of Season Report - 2016

Overall Season Catches: Average
Most Sucessfull Methods: Fly
Biggest Fish: 30 lb salmon
Start Date of Season: 15 January

Highlights:
2016
We can now look forward to the springtime, after the 2012 massive run of big fish it may be 2017 is going to be another such good time. The spring fishing has been improving year on year and anglers have to change the way they think about when to fish any river these days. The previous six years have seen the Autumn run decline or arrive much later especially on the Eden with probably 95% of catchable fish within the salmon season coming into the river before the start of September.
It is well worth starting to fish for salmon around mid-February weather permitting, the main of the spring run will enter the Eden around the last week of March and continue right through to the end of May. We have seen plenty of fish coming off the tides and had some great sport this season especially using sunray shadow flies.
The summer run is also good these last few years, some very big fish showing in June along with good numbers of sea trout, with the right conditions at night the sea trout fishing is very good. This year it was followed by a big grilse run in early July with some decent salmon among those fish.
There were still salmon running right up to the end of August and by September the runs just stopped everywhere probably due to the warmer conditions we are experiencing.
The brown trout fishing is excellent while there are good hatches of large darks and uprights going on in April and May with plenty of surface activity. The evening fishing just into dark can be sublime with the warmer weather when the bigger specimens begin to feed.
We are now left with only fishing for the grayling throughout the period of wintertime, these fish have been doing very well over the years with good shoals of all size classes from fingerlings to fish in excess of two pounds. On mild days the grayling are active and respond well to surface flies, when cooler conditions prevail they will take nymphs and bugs near the bottom.

Report Supplied By:
Glyn Freeman
http://www.cumbriaflyfishing.co.uk
glyn@cumbriaflyfishing.co.uk