We are now in to June and have had our first run of grilse, so we are hoping for good things for our summer and back end fishing.
Looking back over this spring fishings I am delighted to report that we have had an excellent spring. Being higher upriver we are always later in starting, this year our spring fishing basically lasted six weeks, catching our first springer on April 16th and by the end of May we had landed exactly 90 springers. The Kyle fishery board have decided that the spring fishing should now end on June 14th so the extra two weeks produced another 14 fish giving us a total of 104 . A break down of the catches are as follows.

April total = 31 with 26 of them released
May total = 59 with 48 of them released
June - June 14th = 14 with 12 of them released
Total = 104 with 86 of them released
This gives us a release rate over the spring of 83% here at Amat.

The quality of the spring fish this season has been superb, the best for quite a number of years. Our heaviest salmon were 16lbs, 15lbs, 14lbs, seven at 13lbs, and 27 weighing between 10lb and 12lbs and 46 weighing between 8lbs and 9.75lbs,