It has been scorching hot here. The river has dropped
dramatically in the three days since we arrived here at Pana. We have lost 8
inches of water and things are getting rocky in places. That does not seem to
bother the Salmon who are merrily running regardless and equally taking the
fly.

Yesterday we joined Paul D and Hamish W up river at Ford
pool. Paul had two nice fish and then Henry Crawford caught a lovely fish in
lower Honey Pot. We have been catching between 40 and 50 fish per day here.
Kitza are doing well with all happy clients but due to limited text
availability at both camps I don’t have any ball park figures currently.
On Sunday Matt and I had a go at hitching a single on the
Indel and raised a couple of fish. So after supper on the Monday Beaney, Henry,
Matt and myself set off into the woods. Mark L was going to join but turned in
instead, certainly an error. The mission was to get some footage up the Indel.
We combined my tele lens with Matt’s camera and video skills and attached a
tiny Icelandic style hitch fly on. I was sent into “wade” and hitch whilst Matt
filmed. We managed to raise 4 fish, land 2 and film one take. Kind of a big
deal.
A slightly shorter blog today as Henry and I have very
generously been allowed to join Sasha on the float trip on the upper Pana. There
was rain this morning and whilst this won’t change the river levels it will
mean cooler air temps and a change is always good in fishing.
Jack Selby