Unsurprisingly the river there is bank high and it might
take a bit of time for the main run of fish to get to the pools around camp
but as head guide Dima pointed out, they have plenty of water to boat
downstream and find them.
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| Alicia and Natasha, looking forward to seeing everyone again |
We had a better day at Lower with everyone having one or two
fish but Sue C and Joan G swept the honours board by landing 16 fish between
them. Sue landed a really good fish from
Upper Sviats and the majority of the fish landed were certainly on the bigger
size – as you would expect as this larger class of fish can run the river
rather more easily.
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| Sue C on Upper Sviats |
Middle Varzuga had an excellent day and finished with 123 to
their 12 rods. All of the rods did well
and Mark J, on his first trip here, had his best day when landing 8. Clarkes was the top producing pool with 34
taken from it over the two sessions either side of lunch.
In the evening we flew over to Kitza to do the mid-week
changeover. The river is very high and
quite dirty but the rods who are now here at Lower said that it had cleared
considerably over the past 3 days and hopefully it will start to clear and drop
rather more quickly now that all of the snow has gone.
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| David D on Jannaways |
In a slightly unlikely twist, the big celebration of the day
came from Kitza where Carolann M landed her first ever fish. She is fishing with her father whose one aim
of the week was to ensure that she landed at least one – he wasn’t to know that
she would do so before him! He rectified
the imbalance by going straight out to Heli pool as soon as we got back from
Kitza and landed a fish after about 5 minutes to ensure that honours were even.
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| Ken B with one from the bottom of Heli |
It is another hot day but with three different people
landing fish before dinner and one landed this morning, it feels as if we are
getting back to where we would hope to be.
Charlie White
