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Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #165 on: 15/04/2014 at 23:44 »
Cracker that Irvine, superb  :cool:

Allan Liddle

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #166 on: 16/04/2014 at 09:12 »
Cracker  :z16

Sandy Nelson

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #167 on: 16/04/2014 at 20:43 »
Thought i was on for the 3rd blank in a row :cry

But managed to find a small stretch with a few rising fish this afternoon, nothing special but managed a few up to about a 12".
The hatch trickled off for about an hour and half from 1330.
DHE soundly ignored but the Waterhen Bloa was taken first time every time.



Been a real challenge the last few days, i've noticed the fish don't seem to be holding station, they will rise but then move, make targeting them quite hard. It wasn't until today i found some regular feeders. The wind has been different each day and i reckon this has not helped, at least today there was a proper hatch :z16

I was making the best of my new wading staff and have found a few places where i can get across the river, during one of my experiments i found myself standing 20ft behind a trout that was 3lb+ i could see it really clearly when the sun shone and it had dry's, spiders and nymphs drifted past its nose and it never even flickered a fin, most annoying. However I watched it for about 10mins and it seemingly did nothing, then it moved a few feet and did exactly the same. All this while Olives drifted over its head. It did this twice more before moving off to where i couldn't see it anymore. I never saw it rise at all during the whole hatch.

Anyway back to work for a few days now, so hopefully the weather can settle down and stop changing, a bit of rain might help as well :z7

Sandy

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #168 on: 16/04/2014 at 20:56 »
I've experienced the same for the past few outings Sandy. Respectable hatches but very little interest and the fish are tricky to fool. Hopefully things get back to normal soon. Bloody wind is back though!

Liam

Jonathan Kerr

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #169 on: 18/04/2014 at 16:28 »
Well the river was kind to me on the last day of my holiday. No big fish to report but there was a good hatch of what looked like olives around 12 today. Lasted about an hour and I had some great sport on the dhe and then CDC n elk. The fish didn't seem too fussy, I landed 7 often very acrobatic trout up to 1.5lb and lost a good few more. Got fairly tricky when the wind picked up but still had some great fun.Took a quick pic of one just for memory sake, 1.25lb using the net scales. A plump wee fella.




Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #170 on: 18/04/2014 at 23:15 »
Another on the Sunray



Going to hit a decent trout river on Sunday and hopefully get something with red spots  :cool:


Ben

Mike Barrio

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #171 on: 18/04/2014 at 23:30 »
Nice one Ben ..... keep this up and Rich is gonna hop on a plane :cool:

Cheers
Mike

Sandy Nelson

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #172 on: 19/04/2014 at 07:00 »
 :z16

Do proper brownies have red spots??..... Think we have been there before   :lol

Sandy

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #173 on: 20/04/2014 at 10:30 »
Hey guys,

I've just been sent this picture by a Romanian friend. From the middle Don, I can just make out a wee PTN in its jaws.  :z16



A fantastic fish as you can see!

Liam

Mike Barrio

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #174 on: 20/04/2014 at 11:10 »
Nice trout :z16

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #175 on: 23/04/2014 at 18:52 »
A handful of photos from the past couple of days. Some very good hatches and I have found some nice fish steadily feeding.  :z16



























Liam

Colin Sunley

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #176 on: 23/04/2014 at 18:59 »
Nice one Liam, your having a cracking season

Mike Barrio

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #177 on: 23/04/2014 at 19:30 »
About time you got a job Liam :z4

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #178 on: 23/04/2014 at 19:35 »
I am working Mike honest  :z16

Sandy Nelson

Re: River Don 2014
« Reply #179 on: 24/04/2014 at 17:54 »
Today was to be an Epic day out for Me and Mr B



Lovely conditions and good company. Took us a wee while to find some feeders, but we did find a small pod of fish.
Similar to the way things have been the last few weeks.
You need a stretch where the wind and current are correct and then you find the flies and fish.

Anyway we had a few nice fish all around the pound mark, a couple above and one below, all on olive spiders.

Anyway after having spent some time trying to nail what appeared to be the good fish in the stretch, it went quiet so i stopped to wait, downstream a small rise happened twice, so a quick downstream puddle cast with the spider floating, drifted nicely over the wee one and up he came.

Woohoo :shock a bit bigger than we thought and fabulous fun on the glass rod.

Another truly Epic Don fish for an epic day out



Beautiful colours and in amazing condition, big and fat  :z12 with a throat full of olive nymphs and duns, he swam away nice and strong too



Great day with great company :z18

Sandy

 




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