6/1/2023 0 Comments Tyme river![]() It is something more radical, not far from the burn Gerard Manley Hopkins described dramatically at Inversnaid, ‘the broth/Of a pool so pitch-black, fell-frowning, ‘It rounds and rounds/Despair to drowning’.ĭark waters change your perceptions. ![]() Nor is it the flashing tint of trout lochs coloured by mossy water from the moors. ![]() It is not the amber darkness of the Helmsdale, which makes your salmon glow golden as they turn in the water. I have waded the North Tyne many times and this darkness always throws me. The North Tyne is the dark son from the Cheviots, peaty like a Scottish Highland burn, and dark-indeed so dark that, wading across to fish the first pool, I was in water only a foot deep, but that was enough to hide the shingle below and leave me searching for a footing in the dark water. The Tyne is really two rivers neighbours, but each very different, reminiscent of families where one son is dark and his brother is fair. It was a chance to see the water he rents for one day a week through the season, and to talk about prospects for the remarkable Tyne system as it continues its wondrous recovery as a salmon and sea trout river. Being by nature an opportunist, I drove down over a wet and windy Carter Bar, crossed the Rede-which was showing a promising run of fresh water-and turned south to Bellingham to the upper waters of the North Tyne, where my friend has his beat. To add extra spice to the prospect, my friend called to say that the word from the lower river was of a good run of early salmon. The chance of a visit to the Tyne is not to be missed.
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