Salmon on the Eden

Our Spring Salmon Course on the renowned Warwick Hall beat of the Eden was a great success, with some excellent Spey casting and a couple of lovely fresh fish thrown in.

Jim taught the course with Eden-based instructor, and our great friend, Glyn Freeman. Some recent rain had put the river into perfect order and the team saw plenty of fish showing.

Hugh, Willie, Tina, Richard and Paul joined us for the course - and everyone made great progress.

Hugh sends a cast to the far bank

Paul Lalwan opened the account with his first UK salmon, a sea-liced springer over double figures (see earlier blog post). True to form, he went on to land another lovely fish on the second day, a little smaller at around 7lb.

Paul the fish magnet

Throughout the two days Jim and Glyn were delighted to see the casting progress made by the team.

Beautiful D-loop

And what a location for a course! The river was stunning and in excellent shape. The accommodation, food and service at Warwick Hall was superb.

Lunch at Warwick Hall

These courses are such great fun, and they are the perfect way to learn new skills or just to fish with a great party of friends. They are so successful, we're going to do more of them for both trout and salmon. And hopefully we'll get plenty more action shots like this:

Paul takes control of a salmon (or perhaps vice versa)

- Bob

Eden Spring Salmon Course

We got the salmon season underway this week with our spring salmon course on the Cumbrian Eden at Warwick Hall. And, typical to form, Paul "Lucky" Lalwan kicked it off in style with this stunning sea-liced springer. Estimated at 10lb-plus it was Paul's first UK-caught salmon.

Jim lands Paul's springer

After catching the biggest sea trout on his Argentina weeks for two years running and landing the biggest salmon of our Midfjardara week last year, it was little more than we would have expected!

To be fair, it may be a bit more than luck, though. Paul's been working really hard on his Spey casting and it's now looking really sweet. Shows what fishing with a bit of confidence will do.

And it also shows the stunning fish that the Eden produces in spring. Well done, mate.

Full report on the spring salmon course to follow...

 - Bob