Season 2024 starts
11/01/2024
Air vice marshal Johnnie Johnson
A great memory
I wonder how Johnnie Johnson would feel now in these days where our shores are being invaded by thousands of illegal migrants every week coming across the channel, The very Channel he and his young comrades literally defended with their lives every day, with many of his young pals paying the ultimate sacrifice.
It was a real privilege and the highlight of my fishing career for me to spend a week on the river ghillieing for Air vice marshal Johnnie Johnson CB, CBE, DSO & Two Bars, DFC & Bar, DL, he was Brittain’s top gun fighter pilot with kills in world war two it was a privilege and brilliant to listen to his facinating stories .
I was taught about him in modern history in School a long long time ago and i never thought i would have the honour of meeting him. When Dr Loxton who had brought him up to fish introduced me to him at the Cottage on the Monday morning the first thing i did was thank him for everything he had done during W W 11.
He was a lovely man and had a tremendous auro about him he was very generous with his time and relating his stories and reminisances, which i will never ever forget. It was great to spend time with him on the river and it was a tremendous honour to be able to call him Johnnie.
This is when i was at Amat and 1996 he was absolutely delighted with the salmon he got in the Long pool, and Sandys pool, he really loved his fishing and the countryside. I also took him down to the Cornhill beat for a cast i drove him down It would have been good to go down in his Range rover it had the very impressive registration plate ( A V M 1 ) Air Vice Marshal 1.
To add to his many avchievements he started up a housing trust for old people and veterans.
Dr Loxton told me He left instructions that a seat be put on the little river he fished in Derbyshire all it said on the plaque was In memory of ” Johnnie Johnson Fisherman ” that in itself is a wonderful testament to the man how modest is that ! he died in 2001.
The last two days Johnnie did not come out to the river his son Michael who was over from Vancouver said his dad was getting pretty tired i gave Michael a bottle of Talisker to give to his father Talisker being something he really enjoyed. he sent me a lovely signed copy of one of his books seen in the photos along with his fish from Sandy’s pool.
below THIS IS YOUR LIFE JOHNNIE JOHNSON
Worthwhile puting up all The great mans honours
Companion of the Order of the Bath.
Commander of the Order of the British Empire
Distinguished Service Order & Two Bars
Distinguished Flying Cross & Bar
Officer of the Order of Leopold with Palms (Belgium)
Croix de guerre (Belgium)
Legion of Merit (US)
Distinguished Flying Cross (US)
Air Medal (US)
Commander of the Legion of Honour (France)
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SUNDAY JULY 20th
The season just keeps rolling along actually i am going through periods of looking forward to 30th September now only about 10 weeks to go. So far this season i have fished the River for a grand total of approx 4 hrs and landed 1 salmon. I have spent way more time strimming than fishing and very soon to be at it again, at least after that kind of time spent on the riverbank their is an end product. Last season at this point of the season i had landed 34 Salmon/ Grilse. DIABOLICAL does not sum it up!!!!!
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This guy must put the fear of death into the enemies of the U K.
Desperate to get UK involved in a war in Ukraine more specifically trying to pick a fight with Russia, and backing to the hilt Ukraine a totaly corrupt and Nazi infested regime. Starmer cant believe his luck he now has two wars to get involved in.
How bad must the little Green goblin coke head of Kiev feel he is only involved in the second most important war, its limiting the countrys he can go round with his begging bowl.
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FISH FARMS GOVERNMENT PROPAGANDA AND LIES
While the 2025 fishing season was slow at first it then never got going and stopped completely, we are now only days away from June. With no distracting and pleasantly relaxing fishing available to me the world appears to be speeding up even more in these increasingly weird times, With even more bizzare decisions backed by endless bullshit and propaganda from the main stream media. We now have a deal done to let the E U back in to fish in an industrial scale Scottish and Brittish waters for the next 12 years !!
Already we have the massive threats and problems fish farms are causing to the Wild Salmon stocks, the polution and destruction of the sea beds and environment.
Scottish Sea Farms are co-owned by Lerøy Seafood Group ,SalMar ASA, and operates across mainland Scotland, Shetland, and Orkney. The company’s ownership is a joint venture between these two Norwegian firms.
Mowi owns a significant portion of Scottish fish farms, with 38% of the salmon production in Scotland in 2017. In 2024, there are seven companies operating in Scotland, six of which are international corporations, and Mowi is one of the largest. Mowi operates 25 sea farms in Scotland. They also have three hatcheries, four freshwater loch sites, a harvest station, and a processing plant. Mowi is the world’s largest producer of farmed salmon.
99 per cent of caged salmon production from Scottish-branded companies operating along the west coast is controlled outwith Scotland, says Scottish Salmon Watch. Most of the industry is Norwegian, and one major parent company is registered in Jersey, an offshore tax haven.
Mowi’s largest shareholder is a company registered in Cyprus which is owned by Norway’s richest man, John Fredriksen.
If you eat farmed Salmon or any farmed fish you wont after you watch this video below, AND WAIT TILL YOU SEE THE YUMMY PREPACKAGED MEALS AT THE END OF THE VIDEO
So the state sanctioned industrial scale environmental vandalisim will increase with the latest move to bow down and grovel to the E U by one man Starmer,
One man reversing the Brexit vote of 17.5 million people, not one word of criticisim from the Main stream media but no surprise their then as they were 100 % against brexit in the first instance, “To find out who rules over you SIMPLY FIND OUT WHO YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO CRITICISE ” propaganda is being used at an ever increasing rate about everything they want to promote. WARS, MAN MADE CLIMATE CHANGE, NET ZERO, VACCINES, and during the woman safe spaces and trans debate when Starmer was asked to define a woman he could’nt probably because he is not interested but he alledgedly knows what three petrol head rent boys from his favourite country Ukraine are.
No surprise they learned from the biggest and best propagandists their has ever been the Nazi’s and the favourite country of the UK is Ukraine and it happens to be crammed full of Nazi’s and nazi ideology. The Nazi’s in the 1940s famously stated ” The big lie ” how people could be induced to believe so colossal a lie because they would not believe that someone “could have the impudence to distort the truth so infamously” ” If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie. It thus becomes vitally important for the State to use all of its powers to repress dissent, for the truth is the mortal enemy of the lie, and thus by extension, the TRUTH is the greatest enemy of the State. How true that is right now.
Nowadays the truth is hard to find, on the otherhand propaganda bullshit and lies are positively bursting at the seems.
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Rivers Findhorn and Nairn closed due to Saprolegnia deaths in Salmon.
May 21st. With the extremely low water conditions continuing the River Findhorn and the River Nairn as of May 19th have both been closed this is due to increasing incidences and deaths in Salmon due to outbreaks of Saprolegnia. In The case of the Findhorn it will be closed till June 2nd when it will be assessed.
On the upper reaches of the Carron there has been a few deaths suspected again due to Saprolegenia.
While Saprolegnia is a natural part of freshwater ecosystems and can infect wild salmon, there’s a growing concern that fish farms might be contributing to increased Saprolegnia infections in wild populations. Fish farms can act as a source of the pathogen, especially when their water systems connect with rivers and streams. Additionally, stress from handling and vaccination in farmed salmon can make them more susceptible to Saprolegnia infections.
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CORNHILL BEAT
UPDATE OF 2024 SEASON
Now that the 2024 fishing season has ended its time to give a quick summary of how the season went. The season got under way as usual on January 11th, over January and February we had a couple of heavy snow falls and very erratic conditions of very low water combined with the snow and some frost and quick thaws resulting in very high water subsequently very little fishing was done over this period.
Even though it was fished enough that a really cold day is often livened up by hooking a few kelts, but this was not the case i have never seen so few kelts last year was the worst this season surpassed that.
When you have periods like that when you do get a take their is a really good chance that its a springer, and thats what happened on Friday 16th with the river big and running at 3ft 7 inch and dropping Allan Donaldson landed an 8lb Salmon in the Gledfield pool this got the season under way and was the first salmon caught on the Carron and the other Kyle of Sutherland Rivers. From then on through out March the fishing was extremely dissapointing with just one salmon landed and very very few seen.
April picked up a little but was still dissapointing and very hard going with still not a lot of salmon showing, April ended with just 16 salmon.
May started out at just 6 inch on the gauge and dropped over the first fortnight of the month to 1 inch, by the end of the month just 3 more fish were in the book and added to the total.
The first Grilse of the season a 6 pounder was landed in the Little falls by James Clark on May29th. So That was the end of the spring season and it was a complete disaster.
At that stage i was really dreading what may come for the rest of the season but fortunately things did go from strength to strength as the grilse arrived and as the season progressed. We had considerable spells of very low water throughout the summer particularly late summer.
June got under way with just half an inch on the gauge and reached zero on the Saturday before rising rapidly to 3 ft 9 inch on the Sunday 9th. This was a good example of these rapid rises and falls in the water levels that would occur on quite a few occasions till end of the season. June ended with just 5 Salmon and 3 Grilse, however the 5 Salmon averaged 12.75 lbs And one noteable salmon was caught by 92 year old Jane pilling a salmon weighing in at 17lb landed in the Wall pool.
July I was a bit apprehensive due to the fact that when the grilse arrived as last season they arrived in fairly good numbers but their big brothers and sisters the summer salmon were very noticeable in their absence.
As can be seen above the salmon did arrive and in pretty good numbers season 2024, as for the same period last season 2023 just 5 Salmon were recorded.
August was stricken with prolonged periods of low water. September came in and early on in the month we had the odd day that was noticeably colder which is no bad thing for back end fishing. September fished well and one particularly big Salmon was landed in the March pool on September 14th by Allan Donaldson it weighed in at 28lbs. This seasons total ended up at 75 a very good total for a two rod beat and a total that back earlier in the season at the end of May i did not think we would get even remotely near.
Last season 2023 the total was 62.
Most productive pools 2024
Gledfield pool 15. Little falls pool 11. McKenzie pool 9. Lairds cast 8. March pool 7.
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NORWAY CLOSES 35 SALMON RIVERS
The Scientific Council for Salmon Management in Norway came out with a report on 17 June which showed that the number of salmon that returned to the rivers in Norway from the sea last year was the second lowest ever, and that every third salmon stock has a very poor status.
The 2024 salmon season is so far also one of the worst they have seen, with catches far below what is normal.
As from midnight SundayJune 23rd 2024 the government have closed 35 Salmon rivers with immediate effect
Some of the famous rivers closed until further notice include Gaula, Orkla, Sjtordal, Verdal, Steinjker, Rauma, Mandal, Eira and Namsen.
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THREE THINGS YOU CAN’T HIDE THE SUN THE MOON & THE TRUTH
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Graeme McPherson Trout fishing in Norway
Just had a text from pal Graeme who is working over in Norway and had a days trout fishing before he came home again to Aberdeen. Fishing a loch quite near to Stavanger Graeme and his pal Petter Saeland caught some lovely trout.
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8 Salmon to my own rod for week still pretty worried as to the out look
I had a good enough week considering the way the fishing has been so far this season i managed to land 8 salmon during the week. I fished across on Gledfield beat for the first three days of the week and managed to land 5 Salmon, and added another 3 fishing on the Cornhill beat. Calum had 2 Salmon on his own Gledfield beat to give the Gledfield beat a weekly total of 7 Salmon. On Gledfield On Monday 15th I landed a 7lb salmon in the Gledfield pool, in the afternoon i landed a 7lb Salmon in the McGregor pool.
Tuesday 16th. I Managed an 8lb Salmon in the Gledfield pool and followed up with another 8 pounder in the McGregor pool. In the morning i played a good sized Salmon of approx 12 to 14 lbs also in the McGregor pool before it threw the hook.
Wednesday 17th. I managed a 7 lb Salmon in the Raven pool, Itwas very quiet and there were very few salmon showing.
Thursday 18th Calum Beattie managed a10lb and an 8lb salmon on Thursday 18th both from the Gledfield pool.
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Stewart Howie’s biggest salmon to date 11lb from Castle Forbes beat river Don
Saturday 13th April. Yesterday i recieved a whats ap and an e mail messages from a couple of pals Graeme McPherson and Stewart Howie, who were fishing Cornhill beat two weeks ago.
They were out on the Castle forbes beat of the River Don, on Saturday and Stewart caught a lovely 11lb salmon . This is a very chuffed Stewart’s biggest salmon to date.
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Week beginning April 1st A couple of springers off Gledfield beat
I fished a few times across the water on Gledfield beat during the week
Wednesday 3rd. Water level at 3ft 6 inch and dropping slowly Calum Beattie landed a 7 lb Sea liced salmon in the Gledfield pool. Allan Donaldson lost a springer in Gledfield pool.
Thursday 4th. The water level approx 2ft Allan Donaldson landed a 9lb salmon in the Bridge pool. Allan briefly had a hold of another Springer also in the Bridge pool.
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Fishing Gledfield beat and ONE FOR THE OTTERS
Week beginning March 18th. The water levels shown are approx to the Cornhill water gauge
I fished Monday, wednesday, & Friday mornings on Gledfield beat.
Mon 18th. The week got off to a start with the water level showing 11 inch on the gauge, A Salmon was seen in the Gledfield pool.
Wed 20th. Water level 1ft 2 inch I am pleased to report i landed a lovely sea liced salmon of approx 7 lbs unfortunately the salmon was bleeding very badly as all the time it was being played it was bleeding. It would not survive but it still had to be released as per Scot Gov rule since 2015 of all Salmon must be released before April 1st.
It would provide a good meal for the Otters, I had even more sympathy for the salmon as i had to visit the dentist in Tain in the afternoon.
Fri 22nd. Water level 1ft5 inch we had frequent heavy showers of rain with the odd shower of sleet with very strong gusty west winds bordering on gale force by mid afternoon and bitterly cold. Days like this should be called winter fishing not spring fishing, Allan Donaldson landed a 7lb salmon in the Glerdfield pool it was played in sunshine and landed just as a howling gale with horizontal sleet began.
Sat 23rd. The heavy over night rain put the river up and at 10.30 the river level was 3ft 8 inch, Thankfully the gale force winds had subsided to a strong westerly but it was bitterly cold. The warter level was 3 ft 8 inch but it continued to bump up and down for 3 or four hours, and as the delay from Sgodachail to Cornhill is approx 3 hours no fishing was done.
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Fishing Gledfield beat
Wed 13th March. The water level this morning was 7inch but the river began to rise in early afternoon, it went up to just over 1 foot by 17.00 hrs. In late afternoon i went across the water to fish the Gledfield beat. Allan fished the Gledfield pool and conected with a good springer it fought extremely well and i was delighted to land a beautifully shaped 12lb salmon.
Thurs 14th. The water level down to 8.5 inch i gave the Gledfield beat a go in the afternoon i moved a salmon to the fly in the McGregor pool, i tried it several times but it would not come back again.
Friday 15th. The river went well up over night to approx 4ft 3 inch it began to steady about 10.00 and began dropping back. immediately after lunch time Allan Donaldson landed an 8lb salmon in the Bridge pool. I met up with Calum Beattie up at Gledfield pool and shortly after Calum landed an 8 lb salmon in the Gledfield pool. Allan briefly had a hold of one before it threw the hook also in the Gledfield pool.
Not to bad three short days with 3 Salmon landed and some good action hoping it bodes well for the season ahead.
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Week beginning March 4th Dr John Anthony & party.
Mon 4th. The water height for the start of this week was at a reasonable level of 1ft 3 inch by Wednesday it was down to 10 inch, we had a pretty stiff cold east wind most of the week particularly from Wednesday onwards, The river continued to drop and by Friday there was just 6 inches showing on the gauge, nothing was touched during the week.
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Week Beginning February 19th.
Not much to report, we had a week of very changeable weather with the river height on Monday running at 2ft Tuesday 1ft 9 dropping it dropped but was basically running at a reasonable fishing height for the rest of the week reaching 1 ft on Saturday.
Mon 19th. I fished with Graeme McPherson Monday and Tuesday mornings but nothing was touched.
Thur 22rd. I fished on Thursday afternoon river running at 1ft 5 inch I managed to catch a really beautiful 4lb Brown trout in absolutely superb condition in the McKenzie pool, I thought it was a salmon when it first took the fly.
Fri 23rd. I had a day up on the upper Brora fishing with Calum Beattie & Jim Gilmour we were fishing courtesy of Willie Sutherland, it was a bitterly cold day and we gave it a good going over but nothing was touched.
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First salmon of the 2024 season on River Carron caught on Cornhill
Friday 16th February The river level was 3ft 7 inch which is a pretty big river, Fishing the Gledfield pool at 10.20 in the morning Allan Donaldson landed a lovely sea liced springer of approx 8lbs.
The salmon fought well and gave a very good account of its self in the big water. Allan is delighted to land this one and get off the mark, The first Salmon off the Carron and the Kyle district rivers, Allan had the first salmon off the river last season 2023 landing a 7 pounder in Lairds cast on February 21st.
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February 6th
Since this season started we have had consistantly very high water levels often accompanied with very high often gale force winds.
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January 16th
The very heavy snow fall in this area we had approx 14 inches it lasted for about 6 days and has thawed now although on the mountains there is still a fair covering of snow on the tops.
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Week beginning January 8th
After four consecutive days of very heavy frosts down to -minus 7 It got milder early evening of 10th January still cold at 6 degrees though
January 11th oppening day Salmon fishing 2024
The 2024 season started on the 11th January i was over starting to cut bushes etc we have had a few big spates over the closed season each one progressively bigger the last one was massive certainly the third biggest i have ever seen and possibly it was even the second biggest. It brought down a lot of debri, some old large waterlogged trees that will need to be taken out of the river and some broken fresh ones washed up. A couple of sections of platform broken and washed away, and the Clump pool has noticably changed when i saw it today at 1 foot it has a lot of fresh stone on Cornhill side opposite the tail of the big bay.
I had a real good long blether this morning with John Audsley the head water bailiff who called by at the hut, but just before John arrived when i had just arrived looking down from the hut i noticed a bit of distubance in narrows at top of Well pool and a Cormorant that appeared to be acting quite exitedly on the rock point.
I was a good distance away but their appeared to be movement and a good sized trout at its feet, a bigger fish than i thought it would have taken. I went closer it took off and to my great surprise their was a salmon kelt of approx 4.5 lbs ! still giving the odd flip of the tail. I have never seen ever seen a Cormorant take that size of fish. I googled info on Cormorants when i got home and found that owners of stocked fisheries have seen them swallow whole 1.5lb to 2lb trout ! which i thought amazing, i think perhaps this ones eyes were bigger than his belly.
August
23/07/2023
A pal Ernie Mackay with a big sea trout he caught it was 730mm and estimated at 8.5lbs Ernie caught it in the River Ythan.
March
19/03/2023
Week beginning March 20th. Fishing Gledfield beat
I had a good bit of early spring fishing over on the Gledfield beat last week, It was a very changeable week of weather and water levels.
I had a productive and enjoyable time for the two days and four mornings that i fished i managed to pick up 5 springers other than the Monday i had a springer each day weighing in at approx 10lb 9lb 8lb 8lb 5lbs The Gledfield pool produced 3 springers and 1 salmon each from Bridge and March pools.
I lost one salmon in Kennel run, and pulled three other salmon during the week. I had not seen a salmon show all week but saw three show over the last two days in Gledfield, Raven & Kennel run.The 5lb salmon was particularly unusual, sea liced in excellent condition and a lovely shape but probably the smallest springer i have ever caught.
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First Salmon off Gledfield beat 18th March
Calum Beattie landed the Gledfield beats first salmon of the season on Monday March13th, Calum landed a 10lb Salmon in the Gledfield pool.
I was over at the end of the week on the Saturday 18th and landed a nice 10lb Salmon also in the Gledfield pool, before lunch & managed to get a 9 pounder off the Clump on Cornhill in the afternoon.
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Sat 18th March.
I recieved a text from pal Graeme McPherson saying that he was fishing the Kildrummy beat of the River Don on Saturday March 18th and his fishing buddy Ernie Mackay, landed a 9lb Salmon, which was the first fish off the Kildrummy beat this year.
Ernie fishes here on the Carron with Graeme from time to time, Well done Ernie
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Wed 1st March
Wed 1st March. I was invited by Mirabel Helme to fish the Oykel on the Wednesday 1st March the river like the Carron was very low possibly in comparison with Cornhill it was even a shade lower, I fished a little but it was great to catch up and have a great chat about the good old days as they say. I first Ghillied for Mirabel and her family 25 years ago now how time flys! It was a lovely day spent by the river with Mirabel and Georgie Ellis who came up with Mirabel.
First Spring Salmon of 2023 Caught at Cornhill
27/02/2023
Tuesday 21st February. The river was running at 1ft4 inch it was very overcast with a cold sharp wind i only fished a couple of hours in late afternoon, on the way back up from the Raven pool heading home i fished the Lairds Cast again, I was delighted to land a lovely springer very fresh with the sea lice just off, the first off the River Carron this season.
It was taken on a big Collie dog fished on sinking gear, its always great to get off the mark, but it does not change the fact that at present up to this point its been the slowest start i have ever seen it is early yet for springers and hopefully things will improve and take off.
But part of spring fishing is the amount of kelts that are seen or encountered and have survived spawning, Each season they are getting less and are now almost as rare as early springers, this season they are noticable in their almost complete absence. Other than this springer i have only had one other take! since the start of the season and that resulted in a kelt in the Bridge pool.
February
31/01/2023
February 1st. We have had two further falls of snow the last one gave us approx 6 inches it lasted about 4 days and had cleared by Sat 21st January. With the thaw the river ran at a good height of 3ft 9 inch to 2ft 5 inch all week dropping to 1ft 5 on the Saturday 28th.
Oppening of the Salmon season 2023
15/01/2023
The Salmon fishing season oppened on January 11th, on the Wednesday the oppening day the river was running at 2ft 2 inch and over the rest of the week it ran steady basically at between 2ft 4 inch and 2ft dropping to 1ft 6 inch on the Saturday.
These steady good water levels were due to some periods of heavy rain and snow melt coming off the mountains and lower ground, we are getting some fresh snow each night falling on the ground above approx 800ft.
I wet a line on the Wednesday the usual tradition I gave it a couple of hours , with not a touch.
A bit of sport over on Gledfield beat
12/09/2022
Wednesday 7th September
The very heavy rain at times since Sunday morning and the odd rumble of thunder did not do much to the water level as the wind was coming in from the east, it put it up to about 7 inch by Tuesday but the rain was pretty constant and heavy at times and put the river up on Wednesday to 4ft, we then had Thursday 1ft 6, Friday 1ft 6 rising to 2ft, Saturday 1ft 3 inch and dropping, had we had the rain from the west the river would have been un fishably high the first three days.
I fished a couple of hours Wednesday, Thursday, & Saturday, mornings on the Gledfield beat and was pleased to land salmon of 7lb,7lb & a 6lb grilse and lose one other, the fish were caught in the Gledfield pool and Gledfield run.
Graham Grant landed a 5lb Grilse in the Kennel run on the Friday, we already need more water so will see what this week brings.
A bit of Sport on the Kyle
06/09/2022
I went down and fished the Kyle again on Wednesday August 31st and landed a couple of Grilse both 5 lbs and lost another that was briefly on before throwing the hook. I fished it again on Friday 2nd September and had another really good day i landed 3 I had salmon of 7lbs & 7lbs and a 5 lb grilse, and lost another so all in all very pleased. Thanks to Mike Donnachie for netting two of the fish for me.
I have fished Kyle about 9 times only one full tide other tides 2 to 4 hours and landed 7 so very pleased, not many showing and those that are showing are grilse only saw one large summer salmon of approx 16lbs hopefully some of these will be coming into Kyle as we near the end of the season.As we have had some big fish on the river in September in the last few years.
Delighted to have just landed my 1.700 hundredth salmon
30/08/2022
I have hardly fished the Kyle this season only had three very quick goes no more than two hours each time. However i did fish it again on on Monday 22nd of August and was delighted to get two lovely fresh grilse both of 5 lbs, the first of the two grilse was very memorable and was a landmark fish for me as it was the 1.700 hundredth salmon that i have caught so far in my lifetime, a couple of big drams went down very well that evening.
When i landed my first ever salmon way back 53 years ago in July 1969 and i can remember it very clearly, i never ever thought that i would reach a total like that. My first salmon was caught on a silver and copper toby spinning, and only one other was caught on a spinner on the River Moriston, all the other salmon 1,699 of them now were all caught fly fishing.
My second ever salmon also 1969 and my first ever on the Fly was caught on the River Orchy.
ENJOY THE SUMMER
19/07/2022
A couple of Grilse July 26th Gledfield beat
I was over fishing on Gledfield beat 26th July and managed to land a couple of grilse the river once again went from very low conditions up to a fairly big level before dropping back pretty rapidly to what now this season seems to be it default setting of approx 1 to 2 inch on the gauge.
I landed a 3lb grilse in the Gledfield run and followed up with a 5lb grilse in the Little falls pool. one other grilse was very briefly hooked also in little falls.
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IT IS WORTH PUTTING THIS DOCTORS FULL C V BELOW
Dr. Hodkinson is the CEO and Medical Director of https://medmaldoctors.ca/dr-roger-hodkinson/
He received his general medical degrees from Cambridge University in the UK (M.A., M.B., B. Chir.) where he was a scholar at Corpus Christi College. Following a residency at the University of British Columbia he became a Royal College certified general pathologist (FRCPC) and also a Fellow of the College of American Pathologists (FCAP).
He is in good Standing with the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Alberta, and has been recognized by the Court of Queen’s Bench in Alberta as an expert in pathology.
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