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NEWSREEL: AUTUMN 2017
The River Torridge Fishery Association President: Lord Clinton Chairman: Paul Ashworth Secretary: Charles Inniss e-mail: The Fishing Season: It has been a most encouraging year for salmon, with the middle river beats doing particularly well. Despite the fact that in the spring and early summer the river was quite low salmon seemed eager to move upstream and by mid-May …
Halfmoon Fishing Report: 20th August–24th September
It has been a very unsettled period of weather with copious amounts of rain and apart from a few days in early September the river has been continuously in spate. During the last week the river has started to settle with 7 salmon caught, mostly grilse of about 6lb. The early running MSW fish and the sea trout are now …
Halfmoon Fishing Report: 17th July–20th August
The weather has been unsettled of the whole of this period and river flows have remained at a reasonable level enabling salmon and sea trout to continue their migration upstream. The salmon anglers have benefited with 17 salmon caught mostly on river beats. Several large cock fish in the 12/15lb range have been landed but as yet the grilse have …
Halfmoon Fishing Report: 1st–16th July
Heavy rain at the end of June provided a much needed spate and there was a good run of sea trout at the start of the month with anglers enjoying some excellent fishing. Martin Weeks, his brother Edd and Steve Reid caught 17 upto 3lbs in two nights fishing. Simon Powell caught three at Okement Foot, again at night, while …
Half Moon Fishing Report: 1st – 20th June
The weather was warm and humid for the first few days of the month. The hatches of Mayfly continued and the trout anglers enjoyed some good dry fly fishing. Heavy rain on 5th was followed by unusually strong gales. A discharge of clay water ruined the fishing on the Middle and Lower River for three days but this did not …
Half Moon Fishing Report: 15th-31st May
With a more unsettled spell of weather and with some appreciable rain on 18th, river levels increased. Not a massive spate but enough to encourage salmon and sea trout to move upstream. On the morning of 21st there was a sizeable run of sea trout (3/5lb) over Bream Weir together with some salmon. The weather then settled again and by …
Half Moon Fishing Report: May 2017
Charles Inniss reports – 1st/15th May Despite the continuing lack of rain and low river levels, the salmon fishing has been surprisingly good. 5 salmon have been caught in the last fortnight, all on the Beam Fishery and all but one double figure fish. The successful anglers were John Pritchard (2 Salmon), Ron Burton, Martin Weeks and Charles Inniss. Several small …
Half Moon Fishing Report: April 2017
There has been no measurable rain since 3rd April. After a brief warm spell, cold north winds have dominated all month. Yet the river has held up well. Since the middle of the month salmon and sea trout have been moving into the Beam Beat every day and anglers have enjoyed the somewhat rare event of fish showing regularly. Two …
Half Moon fishing report: March 2017
In February Mr Orchard and Mr McIntosh became the new owners of The Half Moon Inn and they are very keen to re-establish the hotel as one of the major sporting centres in the West Country. Charles and Adam will still be running the fishery and looking after the anglers every day. Beats are available on seven miles of the …