Grimsa: No record this time, instead a good solid total
Into a late season fish on Grmsa tributary Tungua. Photo by Einar Falur.
Final totals from the season are sprinkling in these days and it is becoming ever more apparent that we in fact had an outstanding season, actually running last seasons record total very close. Grimsa was well off last seasons record catch but had a good solid season nevertheless.
Most of the westland rivers were below their totals from last year but most of them were despite that well above their average totals over a period of years. Up north there were records broken and the sea ranching rivers are still churning out salmon and will do so deep into October.
Grimsa started well and was consistant until the long, long draught caught up with it. While Grimsa‘s water levels are never as badly affected by the long darughts as on many other rivers, the general listlessness that the never-changing-weather brought on caught up with it eventually. But with the lenghtening shadows at the coming of autumn, it started to rain and the fishing picked up again.
Grimsa did not have the same monstrous runs of last season, runs that produced the stunning record of 2.225 salmon. It did though have good solid runs that produced a very presentable total of 1.339 salmon, a more down to earth and Grimsa-like catch. As ever, most of Grimsa‘s salmon were healthy grilse, yet as on many other western rivers, experts felt that there were more mws‘s than the past few years, a trend they have been observing over the last 2-3 years.
