Salmon on the move

[greenalert]

Just a quick question lads

A mate of mine asked me if salmon move more in the hours of darkness than during the daylight hours

I don't know

Can anybody help?

Thanks

[Sloggi]

In my experience, salmon move when I get within 10 metres of the pool regardless of light conditions Usually to the next pool

[splash]

greenalert said:

Just a quick question lads

A mate of mine asked me if salmon move more in the hours of darkness than during the daylight hours

I don't know

Can anybody help?

Thanks

Can't give you a definitive answer but there are some thougtful posts under the "Conditions" thread that provide some insights into salmon behaviour in general which are worth reprising

cheers

Splash

[salmonking]

My understanding is salmo will run at night in a full moon,i have been told of certain beats full of fish one day,gone the next after a full moon.

[zephead]

Salmon do seem to run like the clappers on a full moon-day or night it don't seem to matter,IME and are definitely more active towards the evening as if geeing themselves up for something.We had corresponding week at UH on Tweed last year which coincided with big tides and (naturally) a full moon for the first three days and by the end of the week we had a beat stuffed with fish,so much so that Ronaldo said hadn't seen the like of what they used to call the "April Itch" (pools packed with fish jostling for position but taking nowt) since the heady days of the late 60s spring runs.

What was noticeable during the week,particularly on the Wednesday though,was that the pools seemed to empty from time to time,with fish leaving en masse.It wasn't a case of the fish going down but the activity in the tails would increase right thro to the necks and suddenly they were gone.A couple of the boatmen I asked said that this was typical of spring fish running on a full moon but there would be a residue of fish left which was how we ended up with a beat full of fish that wouldn't look at a thing by the Saturday evening.

DTYS!

ZH

[kercock]

Having looked at graphs of fish movements on a fishcounter,there seems to me that there is no doubt that salmon move in far larger numbers between 8am and midnight than any other time of the day...........or night.

[donnieW]

No doubt about it - salmon move at night. Especially in low water they run like buggery in the dark. I used to watch them at Grimersta and from 7/8 in the evening til about 1am they would go pouring up. A regular fisher on the Tummel told me last week that a number of years ago he fished Portnacraig in the evening and went back early the following morning - 800 fish had gone through the counter overnight.

[greenalert]

Thanks Lads

My mate sends his thanks as well

[salmoseeker]

night favoured for fish to run except perhaps when there is high water when fish run through the day.

[Yorkshire Esk]

sloggi said:

In my experience, salmon move when I get within 10 metres of the pool regardless of light conditions Usually to the next pool

This has got to be the reason for most of us in my opinion for not catching up with that silver bar.
Well. That is what I tell myself.