Thursday 26 September 2013

Arundell Shop: End of Season Sale

With just a couple of weeks of our season to go, we have reduced a load of great items for sale in the Cockpit - our tackle shop. We have the superb Guideline Exceed and LPXe rods reduced, for example a 15ft 10/11wt LPXe from £449.99 to £404.99 or the Exceed 9ft 7wt from £219.99 to £179.99. There are many other items with great reductions such as Costa Del Mar sunglasses and Redington rods so click here - TACKLE SHOP - to browse.



We've also just had a long-awaited delivery of Danielsson Reels arrive. These are priced with 30% off at the moment. Made in Sweden in small batches, these tend to go very quickly. These are unlikely to be available again until around April next year... you have been warned. Have a look on the shop website to see the range.



Wednesday 25 September 2013

September Report

September continued very dry, with rivers at rock bottom levels, eventually relieved by some rain which was largely absorbed by the parched ground, but did give us a rise of a few inches on all rivers. The Tamar ran extremely dirty, but this water did encourage some fish to run, and we caught our first salmon since June. Charlie Yeoward released a 5 pound grilse from Quarry pool on the Tamar, taken on a black and yellow tube fly. More grilse were seen showing, so at last a few fish are on the move.
Sea trout night fishing provided 15 fish for September, with a few days to go as I write, and a total of 138 for the season to date. Best fish this month was one of 2 ¼ pounds for David Pilkington from beat 3, taken on a P.R. Decent numbers of sea trout were in our beats, and a couple were taken from the Thrushel by trout fishers.
Trout fishing perked up as temperatures slowly dropped, with nice hatches of stone flies and some late caddis keeping fish rising. 131 trout and 8 grayling were released by trout rods, with some excellent brownies up to 12 inches.

Prospects for the final fortnight of the salmon season are entirely dependant upon some real rain, rivers are still very low and a big spate would be most welcome.

David Pilkington

Monday 23 September 2013

River Report

Despite a fleeting spell of wet weather, rivers have once again dropped back to summer lows. Shortly after the rain, regular rod Charlie Yeoward managed a grilse from Quarry Pool on a one-inch Black and Yellow tube. Trout fishing has perked up this month, as it usually does towards the season's end, and the sea trout are present in good numbers with several being caught both by night and by day on small wets and nymphs. Until we get a serious dose of the wet stuff, salmon fishing will be patchy at best! Our (rain) dancing shoes have all but worn out. Here's to hoping.

Tying Sea Trout Flies

With the season drawing to a close, it'll be soon time for winter nights at the fly tying vice. Here are three videos of hotel instructor Tim on how to tie some hotel night fishing favourites. The footage is filmed in HD video, so feel free to adjust the quality setting (bottom right-hand corner) to suit.

The hotel's Youtube channel can be found here:


Tying the WMD

Tying the WMD Gurgler

Tying the Werewolf