River Don 2014

« **Reply #100 on:** 06/04/2014 at 20:32 »

cracking fishes there Peter - Does the E mean emerger? maybe they were keener on that than the final product!

« **Reply #101 on:** 06/04/2014 at 20:38 »

Had a couple of hours on ADAA waters this afternoon. One very localised and quite intense, but intensely brief, hatch of MBs at 2.30pm for about 5 mins. Fish were snapping and rising just before the MBs appeared. Winkled out two of the risers to around a 1lb, which was nice on a horrible windy day.

C&R

Amazing number of swans on the go today:

As another angler said, twas still better than watching the telly. And no one fell in today, hurrah!

« **Reply #102 on:** 06/04/2014 at 22:36 »

Peter
I was watching a fish munching down march browns yesterday which is something I haven't often seen. I covered him with a dhe, nope a cdc&elk nope, and your mbe, bang! It's a cracker!

« **Reply #103 on:** 07/04/2014 at 07:23 »

Friday for salmon, nothing, saturday for trout, nothing. In 2 days I saw 4 fish move, all salmon. Think I will takne up cod fishing

« **Reply #104 on:** 07/04/2014 at 08:27 »

I just came off a famous beat on the Dee. 3 days never saw or touched a fish and that was to all 4 rods! Disheartening

« **Reply #105 on:** 07/04/2014 at 14:43 »

Just back from offshore, was out from 12 - 2. Sporadic march brown hatches throughout the day with not much to be seen. First rise seen and I covered it followed by a gentle take, it felt like a fish of a lb, then it leaped out and was about 4 lb. I was not really in control thinking it was small and after about 2 mins it came off 😡.
Annoyed but well happy to be out again 👍. Well done everyone else so far.

Geoff

« **Reply #106 on:** 07/04/2014 at 19:41 »

One from Lower River today, still covered in lice. Had a few trout too but nothing worth getting the camera out for.

Cheers

Ben

« **Reply #107 on:** 07/04/2014 at 19:42 »

That's a great Fish Ben!!

Liam

« **Reply #108 on:** 07/04/2014 at 19:46 »

Awesome

H

« **Reply #109 on:** 07/04/2014 at 19:48 »

Nice one Ben

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #110 on:** 07/04/2014 at 20:16 »

Awesome

« **Reply #111 on:** 07/04/2014 at 20:33 »

Sweet

« **Reply #112 on:** 07/04/2014 at 20:37 »

« **Reply #113 on:** 07/04/2014 at 20:47 »

Nice fish 😃

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« **Reply #114 on:** 07/04/2014 at 20:55 »

Thats a belter Ben, well done😊

« **Reply #115 on:** 07/04/2014 at 21:05 »

Quote from: Gilly on 07/04/2014 at 14:43

Just back from offshore, was out from 12 - 2. Sporadic march brown hatches throughout the day with not much to be seen. First rise seen and I covered it followed by a gentle take, it felt like a fish of a lb, then it leaped out and was about 4 lb. I was not really in control thinking it was small and after about 2 mins it came off 😡.
Annoyed but well happy to be out again 👍. Well done everyone else so far.

Geoff

Hey Geoff, had a brief chat with yourself today as you were heading downstream. Had a wander up to one of the spots you mentioned and had a few casts, had a brief encounter with a good fish but broke me. Need to look at my knots with fluorocarbon or go back to ultragreen. Didn't stay out much longer as the rain got the better of me but did see a few fish feeding on march browns but no more takes.

« **Reply #116 on:** 07/04/2014 at 21:07 »

Andy,

Unfortunate about the fish. What tippet are you using?

Liam

« **Reply #117 on:** 07/04/2014 at 21:12 »

Liam, it's climax fluorocarbon. TBH think it was a bit on the light side for wets but was in a bit of a rush and should have set up a proper cast. Saying that not had much luck with light fluro in the past so could easily be my knot choice.

« **Reply #118 on:** 07/04/2014 at 21:40 »

Officially hello Andy.
If your knots seem good check your tippet as last season I had a few breaks and tippet was rotted I think as it broke in hand really easy.

Geoff

« **Reply #119 on:** 07/04/2014 at 22:40 »

Noice one Ben

« **Reply #120 on:** 08/04/2014 at 13:11 »

Ahh, that's what they look like.

What a stunning looking fish, nice size to play on the short rod, that must have put a decent bend in it.

Kev.

« **Reply #121 on:** 08/04/2014 at 14:06 »

Belter!

Switch rod again Ben?

W.

« **Reply #122 on:** 08/04/2014 at 16:28 »

Nice one Ben.
I had a good afternoon on the upper river. Nae photos from me as the battery on the phone was flat. The hatch lasted from from about 12:30 to14:00 but the wind made things tricky. You could only cast in the lulls between the gusts. Anyway I got two nice brown trout at around 3lb each, both on the DHE. I missed a third fish and didn't see any more rises. Anyway a nice change after last week's blank.
Irvine

« **Reply #123 on:** 08/04/2014 at 16:47 »

Excellent Irvine

« **Reply #124 on:** 09/04/2014 at 15:52 »

Gassed off the river this afternoon

Took Daniel down for a few casts and hopefully to get amongst some of the fish, but for some reason the only stretch we could find without the wind causing us issues had some sort of development work going on, this site apparently used to be a land fill.

All i know is the stink was horrendous, smelled like proper gas and gave us both a headache inside an hour, not very nice at all.
Very little fly life seen and only a couple of risers, nothing of any size, not sure if this was down to the wind direction or the gas.
didn't venture too far so not sure what the rest of the river was like.

Bit of a shame as He doesn't come out that much and had been looking forward to it.

Sandy