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Matt Henderson

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #750 on: 05/09/2012 at 07:22 »
Fished the lower river on Friday and on Tuesday night.  Not a lot moving and caught nothing.  Had a guide on Friday who was putting out a very nice line with his switch rod, was extremely knowledgble about his local stretch and makes a braw cup of coffee too!  It's a bit of a mince photo due to the light and I think the lense steamed up a bit after being inside my waders!



Fished in the evening last night, must remember to put my headtorch back in my jacket!

Cheers

Matt :z16

Iain Cameron

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #751 on: 05/09/2012 at 09:09 »
hi Matt - it was a good day's wandering around the lower Don last friday. Shame the fish didn't appear keen.
Loving using the 6wt switch rod at the moment - as a light spey-style double-hander it feels just right for the low water late summer conditions.
cheers
iain

Steven Kidd

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #752 on: 05/09/2012 at 16:05 »
I am going to try the following methods for the broons tonight for the first time.......

Czech Nymphing
French Nymphing
Polish Nymphing

I'm going to also try finding a Nymphomaniac.

I'll keep you posted.

Cheers,

Skidd

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #753 on: 05/09/2012 at 18:06 »
Now you've done it. Iain will no doubt be down the river in a skirt tonight looking for you!

josh

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #754 on: 05/09/2012 at 18:55 »
Yeah I think I have common sense mike hense me saying lol at the end makes it a joke if u have common sense lol

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #755 on: 05/09/2012 at 18:59 »
 ???

Anyway, hope you are not referring to me Trig.

Good luck Stevie.

Iain

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #756 on: 05/09/2012 at 20:47 »
Ahem...of course not Iain. Nor you either Iain. It's that other Iain I'm on about the upstream nymphomaniac :X2

Steven Kidd

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #757 on: 05/09/2012 at 22:29 »
Well the nymphing went well, never caught anything, but I now understand how it works.  I won a sage ESN on ebay by mistake and am now figuring out what it is for??.

Anyone use either nymphing methods on the Don with much success?

I am loath to go the whole french set up with no fly line, anyone tried it?

Cheers,

Steven

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #758 on: 05/09/2012 at 23:47 »
Typical, warm days and evenings and the season is fading.

Been out a few times over the last week and surface activity has been worth the trip although the larger fish have been few and far between (also, either oncers or patrolling an area too large to chance speculating in calm conditions).
Dry fly has been the order of the day as there are pods of 1/2 - 3/4lb feeding fish to be found, and spooked, with the chance of a 1lb or so fish in their midst.

A couple of photo's from the last few trips and a poor camera phone shot from tonight.










Steve,
I tried the leader to hand set up about a month ago and although it was enlightening to see that you can actually cast a 30 odd foot leader it wasn't for me, or should I say that I would prefer to 'upstream nymph' the Don with conventional kit and a 12" section of Hi Viz backing as an indicator, but what do I know........................I haven't hung the gear up by any means, just need a more suitable venue.

Iain

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #759 on: 06/09/2012 at 13:37 »
Good stuff there Iain, you are certainly outgunning me just now big time, though weekday evenings are now off for me due to plank spanking duties  :shock. The rising fish I am encountering are really finicky. Yes, French Leader stuff clearly works (see Fish On Productions vid)......but on a slow, deep flat Don 'glide' ? I am not so sure. As Bones might say: "It's fishing Jim...but not as we know it" !

Allan, I got some of your GREEN Maxima, looks good but is real "chunky munkey" stuff (3lb is 0.15mm). Looks great for 14's and 16's though. FYI the BROWN crappy stuff actually makes good tapered leaders, certainly for the first couple of sections due to it's stiffness. I think that stuff is plutonium enriched - in all my years as a kid I was never broken on Chameleon at any thickness.

Lindsay

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #760 on: 06/09/2012 at 17:52 »
Lindsay,

Dare I ask...Plank spanking???

Noel.

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #761 on: 06/09/2012 at 20:34 »
Dare I ask...Plank spanking???

Nothing to do with "spanking the monkey"....though I suppose I have been called a w*nker many times..... Ask Goolager - he has been known to "spank the plank" :z7 Some of us have the privelege of doing it for a living  :z16 Ooohhhh, Matron !

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Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #762 on: 06/09/2012 at 20:57 »
was going to spank the plank tonight but the loon is in his bed sleepin'

Iain

Matt Henderson

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #763 on: 06/09/2012 at 21:16 »
I checked Urban Dictionary. It didn't explain it either Noel..

Alex Burnett

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #764 on: 06/09/2012 at 21:43 »
A lot of famous people been known to Spank the Plank...on a fairly regular basis  :X2 :X2 :X2

Alex

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #765 on: 06/09/2012 at 22:22 »
The greatest "plank spanker" of all time:



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Matt Henderson

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #766 on: 08/09/2012 at 21:24 »
Anybody get out tonight? Should have been almost perfect, nice and steady water level, warm during the day and not too windy.

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #767 on: 08/09/2012 at 22:17 »
Nice evening, had a few up to 10 oz or so, all on size 16 DHE.

First fish on (another) new Rod courtesy of Orvis (shockarooney, pic sorry):



Lindsay

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #768 on: 08/09/2012 at 22:32 »
Aye Matteus I'll bet it was

Lindsay,
nice rod, nice fish, shocking photo!  :X1

Was there a few rising fish?

Iain

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #769 on: 08/09/2012 at 22:46 »
Was there a few rising fish?

A few Iain, mostly small though and still taking something just beneath the surface. Photo, yep not one of my better efforts - must have been blinded by the "bling" of the Helios ( and a very nice rod it is too....).

Lindsay

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #770 on: 08/09/2012 at 23:23 »
9' 4 wt mid?

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #771 on: 08/09/2012 at 23:31 »
9' 4 wt mid?

Helios 104-4 (10' 4 wt). Trying to get a rod that "does it all", as much as that is possible (spiders,nymphs and dries.....boat, even float tube). Doesn't feel or look like a 10 footer, but is crisp and responsive. The current pre Helios 2 price reductions were just too tempting !  :z7

Lindsay

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #772 on: 08/09/2012 at 23:34 »
Nice  :z16

Hamish Young

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #773 on: 09/09/2012 at 05:16 »
Helios 104-4 (10' 4 wt).

Good choice, my personal favourite  :cool: SLX on the reel there by any chance:?

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #774 on: 09/09/2012 at 11:50 »
Good choice, my personal favourite  :cool: SLX on the reel there by any chance:?

Hi Hamish,

Kevin Muir (his fav rod too ?) did his best to talk me in to buying it in July but  I went with the Access 9', as the Helios was well pricey then. Probably should have listened to him.... ! Yes SLX in a #4 but I also tried my Mallard #4 which also felt pretty good, nice and slick (the head being smaller diameter ?) but perhaps more "pile ups" for me on miss-timed forward casts !  :z6  Might also try an Olive SLX next season as they are so good.

Lindsay

 




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