Saw massive salmon or trout on the river tees

Johnnyweetabix

Johnnyweetabix

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So yesterday evening, I decided to go kayaking along the river tees, getting in near the canoe centre near the tees barrage.

I was happily paddling alongside a guy on a paddleboard when a big fish jumped out of the water right in front of the guy on the paddleboard. Im guessing it must’ve been at least 50 cm or more in length and I only caught it out of the corner of my eye but it completely jumped up out of the water almost vertically . The poor guy on the paddleboard almost shxt himself as it was literally next to him.

I hadn’t really thought about any fish of any decent size being in the tees so can any of our fellow fisherman friends shed any light on what it would have been. I think it was a salmon .

as a side note I’d not paddled from the barrage but it was lovely . Only did an hour or so but wen tilt under all the Stockton bridges and back. Loads of people out and about and lots to see which you can’t see from land.
 
I think there are both salmon and trout in the Tees.

I have just bought a fishing kayak and will be giving it a go in the coming weeks. Cant wait, although I have never kayaked before, so will probably see if there are some lessons etc available form the water sports centre.
 
Sounds like a salmon. They are seen regular at that point and are sometimes accompanied by the odd seal getting an easy meal.
There are some real big fish in there he Tees. A few years back I had two pike
 
"They say that salmon swim in steel river
They say it's good to see them back again
I know it hurts to see what really happened
I know one salmon ain't no good to them"
[Chris Rea. Steel River]

[Actually chuffed, because the Tees was like an industrial sewer 40 years ago :(](y)
 
More likely a salmon than a trout as it jumped out the water. Also 50cm is big for a native river trout (as opposed to a stocked fish in a fishery) but not that big for a salmon.

Tees has cleaned up massively over the years as r00fie points out it was an open sewer when I was a kid.
 
We saw a huge silver fish jump out of the water on the Tees side of the South Gare a few years ago. I've always assumed that that was a salmon too.
 
I was walking in Billingham Beck Valley a few weeks back and there was an old geezer (even older than me) with a rod. I stopped to chew the fat and asked him what he was fishing for, he said there was all sorts in there. He baited up and a few minutes later pulled out a young chubb, I'm sure that's what he said it was. He reckoned he'd caught perch in there regularly too and had one 3lb trout.

There's photos of seals on the banks of the beck now as it nears the Tees not far from Newport Bridge, a section that used to run in an eye catching metallic blue.

Good to see the local waters clearing up after years of pressure from 'fooking do gooder environmentalists'.
 
When I was young my parents had house by the River Esk near Whitby and the Sea Salmon and Trout would come up stream in October to mate and lay eggs and then die. They were very large at that stage in their lives upto 90 cms long, but many were close to the end of their lives so were becoming sick with a white fungus.
 
Use to take the kids when they were very young to the barrage & if lucky watch the salmon jumping out of the water
 
Corcaigh_the_Cat said:
I was walking in Billingham Beck Valley a few weeks back and there was an old geezer (even older than me) with a rod. I stopped to chew the fat and asked him what he was fishing for, he said there was all sorts in there. He baited up and a few minutes later pulled out a young chubb, I'm sure that's what he said it was. He reckoned he'd caught perch in there regularly too and had one 3lb trout.

There's photos of seals on the banks of the beck now as it nears the Tees not far from Newport Bridge, a section that used to run in an eye catching metallic blue.

Good to see the local waters clearing up after years of pressure from 'fooking do gooder environmentalists'.
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I remember the different colours of chemicals ICI regularly spewed into the tees near the old Nylon works.
Good to see the river back to life 👍 should we thank the EU for this or can we take some credit?
 
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