My fishing plans for this year were to try to get to grips with fishing The Don, catch a decent don brownie a seatrout and a salmon.
Well I had caught the decent trout by midday on the first of april
Caught a seatrout in may and no one to blame but myself for not getting a salmon last saturday, may still get one yet...
Had also planned to visit Orkney but that didn't happen.
Catch a mackerel or anything on the fly from the sea was also up there but I failed miserably on that one. Didn't even catch a single solitary mackerel with feathers despite trying half a dozen times.
Next year the hope would be to continue my Don education, I had several decent trout in april and may but despite regular efforts my success tailed off after that. Was still catching fish but the bigger ones had got too clever for me.
Orkney is still on the wish-list and no doubt a few flings at the salt.
A real highlight for me this year was on a trip home to Ireland I had 7 trout from a local lough all about the 1lb mark, this was over two evenings. I have fished this lough since I was a teenager and never had anything much over a half lb before. It was the first place I ever attempted to cast a fly so was great to have some success there.