River Tyne 28th October 2016
Kielder release
The current 9.3 cumec release will finish at 19.30 on Monday, 31st October, when it will drop to 2.5 cumecs to facilitate the first of the hatchery broodstock collection days.
Thereafter, it will run at 15.4 cumecs with single days at 2.5 cumecs for further collections until enough broodstock have been caught.
Kielder release is subject to change without prior notice.
Tyne salmon counts
There has been an increase in activity at the fish counter at Riding Mill The counter at Riding Mill, the counts have not been verified, however at least an additional 1,000 upstream migrants will bring the October run to date to 4,000 plus.
The counter recorded 3,048 for October up to 08:00 on the 20th. Over 1,000 upstream counts were recorded on the 15thand 16th, many of these fish are thought to be sea trout.
The count for the year to the 20th is 30,159 this is above the long term average of 28,789 which is based on the counts from 1997 to 2015.
The Riding Mill fish counter recorded 3,624 for September. This is much lower than the long term average for the month which is 6,954 and the five year average of 6,585.
The fish counter revised figure for July is 9,919.
The Environment Agency has confirmed the total for June was 7,113, arecord count for the month since 1996 (when the counter was commissioned).
River reports
There are goods numbers of fish throughout the Tyne system with the greater majority well coloured. Some very large salmon are showing with a few coming to the fly. The largest salmon reported this week was a 40 inch cock fish which was caught at Chesters.
The South Tyne water has fallen slowly; Haltwhistle is showing 0.456 mtrs on the gauge. The North Tyne at Reaverhill is at 0.764 and Bywell is 0.705 mtrs.
The amount of leaves in the river has been a bit of a nuisance hopefully with light winds forecast the fall will lessen.