[Sandy Nelson]

Anyone else out last night?

River was dead except for a brief hatch of bwo's about 1030, very different to friday

Would be interested to know if anyone else experienced this, or whether it was just the beat?

I was on the upper, lower river, same beat as friday, was hoping to chase some of the fish i saw friday, but they never appeared.
I know the river throws days like these. I did wonder if the water was colouring up while i was there, but i couldn't really tell in the low light.

Sandy

[Noel Kelly]

Hi sandy yes I was out from 10 til midnight just down river from you and it was as you describe one 3/4 lbr to avoid the blank and that was about it.

[Scott Cumming]

I didn’t miss much last night then...strange ??? There’s certainly a cooler breeze today, dont know if I’ll bother tonight

Had some action on Friday night, this trout was caught on a sedge pattern at 11pm (thanks for the pic Lewis )



ps Shame about that biggie you lost Sandy, I use B100s a lot and never had a fish mangle one like that before

Cheers
Scott C

[Sandy Nelson]

Nice fish Scott, huge spots!

ps Shame about that biggie you lost Sandy, I use B100s a lot and never had a fish mangle one like that before

First time I've had one do that too, I've just about convinced myself it was a tourist, so I'm much happier about it now
Although I should still have got out of the water,or not bent the rod so hard, or tried to bring it back across the river so soon, or set the reel friction a little tighter, or jumped in after it, or gone fishing on Friday the 13th at all
 

Roll on friday

Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Popped down for a chill out after work this afternoon.
After much sleepy ponderings on the river bank in the humidity, i decided to have a chuck at some of the fish that were sporadically feeding on Small dark olives.

So don't give up on afternoons yet

These guys came off between 1530 and 1800 this afternoon on the DHE





A few smaller ones rising too, but the bigger guys were feeding pretty steady, if sporadic, just a matter of watching and waiting, which is sooooooo much nicer when its not raining

Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Going through the rest of the photo's on the camera from the last few days.

here is a newly hatched BWO from Friday night, if you look carefully you can see it actually has an orangey coloured thorax, might be a good trigger for a fly? Fly is about  size 14 and on the water it looks really dark in the gloom of evening.



 

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy

Cheers
Mike

[Marc Fauvet]

nice out-of-focus bug, Sandy ! 
LOVE the tapered wrapping on the tip ring. nice touch 

[Sandy Nelson]

nice out-of-focus bug, Sandy ! 

I thought it might help with tying a more suggestive fly 

[Julius]

Hi guys, i am new to the forum and the fly fishing game, having read all preceding pages im wondering if any of you could advise an inexperienced loon please - would i be correct in saying when oot fishing keep an eye oot for "hatching" - and cast in that spot ? 
all my experience before has been with spinning for pike & perch or float for carp, so this is all new to me

perhaps someone could also chip in regarding goodliness ( or not )of councils Don beats at inverurie and alford ?

many thanks Julius

[Noel Kelly]

Hi julius and welcome.
Hatching flies is good and where you need to be focusing but what you really need is to see trout feeding on them. Then tie on a suitable dry fly or emerger imitation and try to put it in a position where the flow will carry it to the feeding fish. Sometimes that can work out to be quiet easy and more times, for me at least it can be a bit more difficult....

Inverurie is highly rated, as is kintore I don't know much about Alford.

[Julius]

thanks very much An, ill give it a shot this weekend , going to go past Ythan at ellon just now for a lookie, been told banks have just been cut there

Guys might be a silly question but ive noticed the two fly reels i have tend to make an awfa racket reeling, at the back of my mind i was thinking would it not be scaring the fish away ?

[Marc Fauvet]

of course they do, specially at close range but... rackety reels attract anglers... 

[Mike Barrio]

The river sure was moody tonight, but as always, it was nice to get out for a few hours

[Marc Fauvet]

nice, Mike ! 
second one's really special