River Don 2014

« **Reply #175 on:** 23/04/2014 at 18:52 »

A handful of photos from the past couple of days. Some very good hatches and I have found some nice fish steadily feeding.

Liam

« **Reply #176 on:** 23/04/2014 at 18:59 »

Nice one Liam, your having a cracking season

« **Reply #177 on:** 23/04/2014 at 19:30 »

About time you got a job Liam

« **Reply #178 on:** 23/04/2014 at 19:35 »

I am working Mike honest

« **Reply #179 on:** 24/04/2014 at 17:54 »

Today was to be an Epic day out for Me and Mr B

Lovely conditions and good company. Took us a wee while to find some feeders, but we did find a small pod of fish.
Similar to the way things have been the last few weeks.
You need a stretch where the wind and current are correct and then you find the flies and fish.

Anyway we had a few nice fish all around the pound mark, a couple above and one below, all on olive spiders.

Anyway after having spent some time trying to nail what appeared to be the good fish in the stretch, it went quiet so i stopped to wait, downstream a small rise happened twice, so a quick downstream puddle cast with the spider floating, drifted nicely over the wee one and up he came.

Woohoo

a bit bigger than we thought and fabulous fun on the glass rod.

Another truly Epic Don fish for an epic day out

Beautiful colours and in amazing condition, big and fat

with a throat full of olive nymphs and duns, he swam away nice and strong too

Great day with great company

Sandy

« **Reply #180 on:** 24/04/2014 at 18:04 »

Holy shit Sandy he is big. Nice one

Liam

« **Reply #181 on:** 24/04/2014 at 19:27 »

Certainly was a great few hours on the water Sandy

« **Reply #182 on:** 24/04/2014 at 20:13 »

That's a sturdy looking trout Sandy, well done

Scott

« **Reply #183 on:** 24/04/2014 at 21:03 »

Sandy,

that is a belter.

Eddie.

« **Reply #184 on:** 24/04/2014 at 21:15 »

There were a few nice fish about once we found them, you just had to walk and explore the day's conditions

« **Reply #185 on:** 25/04/2014 at 07:48 »

Cheers

I'm still buzzing, Its taken me 28 years to catch a Don 4lbr on the fly and now i've had 2 in the last 3 weeks

All the hints and tips are paying off, now i've found the discipline and patience to use them

Sandy

« **Reply #186 on:** 25/04/2014 at 08:39 »

Superb Sandy! Cracking trout, and loving the underwater pictures

cheers
iain

« **Reply #187 on:** 25/04/2014 at 09:53 »

fantastic fish and pics!

« **Reply #188 on:** 25/04/2014 at 10:01 »

Quote from: Spiderman on 25/04/2014 at 07:48

Cheers

I'm still buzzing, Its taken me 28 years to catch a Don 4lbr on the fly and now i've had 2 in the last 3 weeks
All the hints and tips are paying off, now i've found the discipline and patience to use them

Sandy

Awesome dude

« **Reply #189 on:** 27/04/2014 at 17:48 »

blanked today!

« **Reply #190 on:** 27/04/2014 at 19:16 »

Ha Welcome to my Club, bring the cookies and put the Kettle on,

« **Reply #191 on:** 28/04/2014 at 16:51 »

Sooperb stuff Sandy

« **Reply #192 on:** 29/04/2014 at 08:29 »

Great fish Sandy! Really looking forward to next week on the upper river now. Very interested in the glass rods, who makes those? I'll be fishing a mixture of cane (the new - that's new to me- 8' spliced Sharpes), my old (very) trusty Sage carbon and a small Hardy glass.

« **Reply #193 on:** 29/04/2014 at 14:03 »

Hi Colin

They are Epic Blanks from New Zealand, i love them

To see what we have been doing with them look at this one.
http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6027.0

We don't have any in stock at the moment, but i may be building them in small numbers in the future, so will probably have some at some point

You should have a good week on the river, if you actively take the time to seek out the fish, they are proving elusive, but where you find one, there seem to be a few

Tight lines

Sandy

« **Reply #194 on:** 02/05/2014 at 14:20 »

They sound very interesting - please let me know when there is a new batch

« **Reply #195 on:** 04/05/2014 at 17:09 »

Nice trip out this afternoon

Not often i go out on a sunday, but it looked perfect and i have some brownie points i can use

bumped into quite a few mates, great to see people

The river was bubbling with fish on arrival around lunchtime, lots of grannoms and Olive uprights hatching, trout seemed to like the olives

Had a few nice fish, nothing massive but good fun
Some of them even had big red spots

Seemed to die off about 2pm so did quite a bit of sitting and talking, then there was a quick flurry of something smallish and Dark, looked like LDO's and the trout switched back on for about 30mins, dead again by 4.30. Had to go home then so not sure if there was more to come, but it had that feeling that it might continue with some short bursts.

Lovely afternoon to be on the river

Sandy

« **Reply #196 on:** 04/05/2014 at 17:41 »

Great stuff Sandy, nice pic too

Fairly heavy rain in Inverurie this afternoon.

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #197 on:** 04/05/2014 at 19:40 »

Quote from: Spiderman on 04/05/2014 at 17:09

... not sure if there was more to come, but it had that feeling that it might continue with some short bursts.

hi Sandy - good to see you this afternoon. You timed your departure well enough. Nothing much stirred after you left; I didn't have another cast. Called it a close at 5pm. Yup, a good hatch up 12-2ish, looking forward to tomorrow now!

cheers
iain

« **Reply #198 on:** 05/05/2014 at 11:16 »

« **Reply #199 on:** 05/05/2014 at 14:02 »

Mike,

great video, Sandy, stonking troot. Well done.

Eddie.