Best Fish Out The Clyde

[Gerry B]

I've Had Hundreds Of Eels Few Perch. Couple Of Grayling
About Ten Good Brownies, Three Pike, Twenty Six Salmon Between 1992-1995
(before the Crown Bailiffs Appeared)No Honestly Being Brought Up
In Blantyre, Me And My Da Fished The Clyde From The Early Eighties.
And We Witnessed Salmon & sea Trout Then.

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[banjo]

i spotted a shoal of sea bass at the renfrew ferry last year.

[Tamo]

One of my late brother in laws was a great angler, and when we lived in Dumbarton, back in the 1970's, he used to fish in the channel at Havoc when the tide was out. I remember him catching flounder and mackerel. In the summer, that whole section of the estuary used to be jumping with mullet.

[BTJustice]

I dont know what flavour of fish they are but I spotted these at the science centre a few weeks ago;


summer 2013 19 by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr


summer 2013 18 by route9autos.co.uk, on Flickr

Dave

[Gerry B]

Could Be Young Salmon(Grilse) Waiting On A Spate Of Rain To Advance.
Or Possible The Sea Bass What BTJUSTICE Witnessed. As They Are Relatives
Of The Salmon/Trout Family

[SomeRandomBint]

I guess that explains the seal I watched for about 20 minutes a few weeks back from the Squinty Bridge!

He had an interesting technique too - swam from the east side of the bridge up until he was almost under it, then turned round and disappeared under the water before resurfacing back upstream to do the same thing again.

[Gerry B]

Toonfoot

[dingdong]

There not salmon/grisle or bass,tail completely wrong shape look like mullet and I have caught all these fish.

[Gerry B]

Ah Well I Didn't Zoom In To Them
Baggies On Macro

[octavia]

was at the harvester ,springfield quay. today . looking out over the clyde having a very nice gourmet burger btw.. saw at least 3 good sized salmon jumping out of the water on the broomielw side,just where the wall is getting repaired,is this an early spring run? good to see the clyde supporting salmon again.

[robertpool]

Salmon poaching ... Pool is on the case from the Dumfries & Galloway Advertiser:

David Pool - Article - 26th December 1866

David Pool, Inspector of Police, Annan, on being examined by Mr. Ewart, writer, Lockerbie, and clerk to the Annan District Board, deponed that he had charge of the Constables employed in watching the fisheries in the district of the river Annan. He received information a while ago that a number of salmon were being caught by means of poke-nets on the shore of the Solway, which he visited on a certain day in the month of October: he visited the shore in the neighbourhood of Loch on the morning of the 11th, and the Annan Sand Rig on the morning of the 12th, being a Friday. He new the Annan Sand Rig was within the district of the river Annan. (Article continues at length)

what's a poke net?

[hillbilly]

Your fish look like Mullet. Quite common in the river. I had a pal who lived near Hill st in town. He was asked by a neighbour who was Chinese if he fancied going fishing. They duly met up , my pal had his rods and fishing gear but the Chinese lad just had a large bag. Off they went down to Ardmore Point and to my pals total amazement. instead of rods the wee guy stripped off and pulls a big net from his bag and taking one end set off into the water to trap Mullet which he said was a favourite. My mate said it was the weirdest fishing trip he ever went on .