Post by jock on Oct 21, 2006 10:15:59 GMT
Betanut,
Things may have changed for the better by the time you are fishing. Water may be higher and colder and therefore more fish in Brocklerigg etc. Hopefully you will not be bothered too much with anglers from the opposite bank.
The Ghillie, Stanely, happens to be the local farmer, he told us to spin if we thought the water was at an appropriate height and ignore the spinning marker. He was telling us that the estate put in this pole but never marked it. The pole, which is at the bottom Crawford Pool was at least 2' out the water when we were there so I think it is set too high anyway. We did not spin because the water was around 2' according to the river level at Brydekirk, and at Hoddem, the beat downstream, the spinning mark is set around 3' However spinning the Weir Pool at the height of water when we were there would probably have caught us more salmon
The previous Saturday to our visit 6 were taken, 5 spinning the Weir Pool if I remember what Stanely said correctly. Now the water would not have been high enough to reach the pole that day.
If I were you I would take spinning tackle and if the other rods are in agreement would spin the likes of the Weir Pool even if the so called "spinning mark" had not been reached.
As I mentioned in an earlier reply, wading would be pretty dangerous at 3' mark on the overhanging tree lined pools. The water is pretty fast, the bottom does go up and down in these faster stretches. At 3' some of the holes would take you perilously close to going over the top of your waders and the force of the currently dangerously strong.
For your information we caught / lost salmon around 70 yds below where a stream enters on the opposite bank. This stream marks the start I think of the Crawford pools. Your side is tree lined at this point and you have to wade. As you wade down the trees clear for a short distance, opposite this clearing is where we hooked all our salmon. The lie is just this side of a little back eddy on the far bank. There is a 3' stake in the field at the top of the bank around this point. The salmon were caught on intermediate lines, Pat caught his on more or less a standard Ally shrimp. I got mine on a fly with a yellow hair tail, gold body, orange hackle and red and black bucktail wing, size 8
The head of the bottom Crawford Pool is where contact was made with another salmon. This pool was pretty slow for the rest of its length but would be good if the water had been higher.
Hope this information turns out to be useful. Good luck and enjoy your visit.
Jock
Things may have changed for the better by the time you are fishing. Water may be higher and colder and therefore more fish in Brocklerigg etc. Hopefully you will not be bothered too much with anglers from the opposite bank.
The Ghillie, Stanely, happens to be the local farmer, he told us to spin if we thought the water was at an appropriate height and ignore the spinning marker. He was telling us that the estate put in this pole but never marked it. The pole, which is at the bottom Crawford Pool was at least 2' out the water when we were there so I think it is set too high anyway. We did not spin because the water was around 2' according to the river level at Brydekirk, and at Hoddem, the beat downstream, the spinning mark is set around 3' However spinning the Weir Pool at the height of water when we were there would probably have caught us more salmon
The previous Saturday to our visit 6 were taken, 5 spinning the Weir Pool if I remember what Stanely said correctly. Now the water would not have been high enough to reach the pole that day.
If I were you I would take spinning tackle and if the other rods are in agreement would spin the likes of the Weir Pool even if the so called "spinning mark" had not been reached.
As I mentioned in an earlier reply, wading would be pretty dangerous at 3' mark on the overhanging tree lined pools. The water is pretty fast, the bottom does go up and down in these faster stretches. At 3' some of the holes would take you perilously close to going over the top of your waders and the force of the currently dangerously strong.
For your information we caught / lost salmon around 70 yds below where a stream enters on the opposite bank. This stream marks the start I think of the Crawford pools. Your side is tree lined at this point and you have to wade. As you wade down the trees clear for a short distance, opposite this clearing is where we hooked all our salmon. The lie is just this side of a little back eddy on the far bank. There is a 3' stake in the field at the top of the bank around this point. The salmon were caught on intermediate lines, Pat caught his on more or less a standard Ally shrimp. I got mine on a fly with a yellow hair tail, gold body, orange hackle and red and black bucktail wing, size 8
The head of the bottom Crawford Pool is where contact was made with another salmon. This pool was pretty slow for the rest of its length but would be good if the water had been higher.
Hope this information turns out to be useful. Good luck and enjoy your visit.
Jock
Guess we will have to make the best of it 
Hell will freeze over first ;D
but them photos have restored my enthusiasm 
. (but my bl**dy missus does ;D).