Fishing this weekend?

« **on:** 08/10/2010 at 22:05 »

Fishing this weekend? ....... What's the plans, who is going out to wet a line then?

Gus tells me the upper River Don has continued to fish well this week, Haddo fish have been feeding well and I believe the River Ythan has a good head of fish in it.

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #1 on:** 08/10/2010 at 22:55 »

I'm fishing the Deveron on Monday, so hoping for the river to be in good fettle

Probably fish the Ythan mid week and Haddo in the tube Sunday , life is sweet

Jim

« **Reply #2 on:** 08/10/2010 at 23:35 »

Club outing for me tomorrow - off to Lochter but my mind will be on the Don. Hopefully next Saturday I'll have a go for a Salmon or two.

Good luck if you're on the river.

Iain

« **Reply #3 on:** 09/10/2010 at 00:18 »

Fishing the Don at Alford tommorow hopeing to get my first salmon of the season.

Michael

« **Reply #4 on:** 09/10/2010 at 00:20 »

Good luck, Alford could be good. Expecting a few pictures tomorrow.

Ben

« **Reply #5 on:** 09/10/2010 at 00:28 »

Michael,

I'll eat my hat if you don't at least contact a fish.

good luck

Iain

« **Reply #6 on:** 09/10/2010 at 00:43 »

Cool .... enjoy guys!

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #7 on:** 09/10/2010 at 00:59 »

Cheers Iain,

Ill post tommorow if you need to get a new hat or no

Thought i should tell you joined your club this week

am now the proud owner of an oldschool style loop opti unfortunatly its the megaloop but at least im covered if one of the 3/4lb brownies at Kintore decides to run for 500yards ill have the backing to cover it

Michael

« **Reply #8 on:** 09/10/2010 at 01:09 »

One can never have too much backing!

« **Reply #9 on:** 09/10/2010 at 10:34 »

I'll be fishing for new jeans and maybe a wee treat from somers (aye somers fishing tackle rather than anne summers) if I'm a good boy. Best of luck to Iain and Michael. By this time of the year the fish should be forming an orerly queue at Alford!

« **Reply #10 on:** 09/10/2010 at 12:28 »

Black & Peacock Spider, Crunchers and Diawl Bachs retrieved quickly just under the surface seems to be the most productive tactics at Haddo so far today

Colin meets "The Broons"

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #11 on:** 09/10/2010 at 12:32 »

I'm just back from the Don at Kinaldie. Been out since first light this morning.

The only thing I got was wet baws'

Moved a few fish but no hook ups

« **Reply #12 on:** 09/10/2010 at 18:56 »

Iam just in from a hard day on the lake of menteith, it feels like winters getting closer thats for sure

« **Reply #13 on:** 09/10/2010 at 19:34 »

Quote from: bigtroot on 09/10/2010 at 18:56

Iam just in from a hard day on the lake of menteith, it feels like winters getting closer thats for sure

Aye, but there're worse places to pass a day Baz

« **Reply #14 on:** 09/10/2010 at 20:25 »

I'm still interested to know how safe Iain's hat is!

« **Reply #15 on:** 09/10/2010 at 20:52 »

Will it be this hat? ...... looks a tad chewy

« **Reply #16 on:** 09/10/2010 at 21:37 »

I'm sure he'll have one of these ready to wash it down with

« **Reply #17 on:** 09/10/2010 at 22:53 »

NICE!!!

yeah, come on Michael, what's the story?

« **Reply #18 on:** 09/10/2010 at 22:57 »

Yeah, where's the Windyknot when you need him?

« **Reply #19 on:** 10/10/2010 at 10:58 »

Started fishing at Alford before, 8 river looked good crystal clear and hopes were high. Fished there till 12 the highlight of the morning was watching a lovely 2-3lb brown come up and nap a sedge 5 feet infront of me unfortunatly on the salmon front only saw one the whole time.

At 12 moved to a beat further upstream and managed to catch my first Don salmon and probably the 3rd biggest salmon ive taken around 14-15lb caught it on a black and orange shrimp flie fished with a 10ft fast sinking polyleader

What made the fish even more memorable was that i was using my 9ft 6# Scott S4 and a home made shooting head. First salmon on a single hander and it was awesome. Was using 23.5lb seagar flourocarbon and i was sure my rod was going to go before the leader was it was bent double throuout the fight, definatly one of the best angling experiance ive had so far still chuft

Sorry guys i would have like to see Iain munching on his hat also

Will post a photo of the fly used later

« **Reply #20 on:** 10/10/2010 at 11:46 »

Great stuff ..... well done Michael

Pity about the hat

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #21 on:** 10/10/2010 at 15:38 »

Aye well done

Jim

« **Reply #22 on:** 11/10/2010 at 00:39 »

Good shit Michael

Doesn't really get much better than that. How your S4 handle the fish? Biggest I've landed on a 6wt is 12lb4oz and that came in in well under 10 mins, dragged in a 9lb fairly fresh fish in 4 minutes on 18.5lb tippet. What head set up were you on?

Cheers

Ben

« **Reply #23 on:** 11/10/2010 at 07:24 »

Well done I hope I can emulate your success soon!

« **Reply #24 on:** 11/10/2010 at 09:19 »

S4 handled the fish really well i was lucky in that the fish choose not to run downstream to far as couldnt follow him. Knowing i had on stong leader and rod had a guarantee

meant he was in quite quickly under 10 mins and was fresh as a daisy when he went back. Definatly have no reservations about using the rod for salmon again as i doubt the fish would have been in any quicker using a DH rod.

Setup was an old DT 10 Shakespeare Floating line cut back to about 20feet. attached to Vivarus floating running line. The business end i had a 10 foot fast sinking polly leader and 3feet 23.5lb Seaguar fluro leader and cone headed blak and orange shrimp tube. Took a few trips out to get the length of the head right but happy with it now.

Michael