[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 

[Sandy Nelson]

It was a pleasant evening.
Quiet though, more fish feeding when we arrived at 7.30 than when we left at 11.30
A very short burst of activity around 10.15 saw a few fish caught but nothing of any real note.

They were quite spooky early on, but the water is very clear and quite low.

Still a good trip out nonetheless

Sandy

[Scott Cumming]

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

Thats a nice stretch of water Mike, pity it didnt produce yesterday.  

I headed down to the river @9pm. After walking the banks for an hour I came across a nice looking pool which I thought might hold a decent trout. Nothing was moving but I chose to wade out to knee height and wait. At around 10:30 a few BWO's came off followed by a few sedge, not many, but enough to interest a bigger fish which surfaced no further than a rods length away from me. I flicked my sedge pattern out and the trout took it on the first pass, fish on!.... after a good strong battle I managed to steer the fish into a  shallow glide where it was easier to land...bang on 6lb in the weigh net. My biggest trout in two years........Well Chuffed!








Cheers
Scott C

[Sandy Nelson]

Awesome Fish

Fantastic stuff Scott

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Cracking trout Scott ....... great stuff

Cheers
Mike

[Marc Fauvet]

congrats ! 

[Peter McCallum]

An absolute beast

[Geoff Gill]

Holy shit ! Well done again Scott 👍

[Jonathan Kerr]

goodness me! 

[Sandy Nelson]

After a few days respite i ventured down this afternoon after work.
Very quiet with the odd fish rising but from about 5.30 onwards there was a steady trickle of BWO's hatching off.

Got some better photo's this time and you can see the reddish/orange thorax



I found a few fish on my side of the river and with some time spent sitting very low to the bank and watching i was able to get a few casts at feeding fish. albeit only a few casts before they spooked each time, but quite good fun doing a combat style approach.

This one had some bonny colours, but i thought the photo came out really nice so heres me (if you look ) and a fish about a pound and a half



CDC spiders seemed to be the way this afternoon.

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy, cracking fish eye

[Colin Sunley]

Am sure you have a garden pond with these fish in them 
Nice Fish 

[Sandy Nelson]

Am sure you have a garden pond with these fish in them 

  I don't feed mine as much as Scott does his 

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Sit, watch, wait and spot ........................
Hares Ear DHE and a favourite Sedge pattern failed  
But managed to tempt one or two on a yellow bodied DHE in the end





I've just been taking the GoPro to the river this year, it fits in my pocket and seems to take quite reasonable photos.

[Sandy Nelson]

Another nice night on the river, bit cooler last night, but lots of fly life.
BWO's yellow mays, small dark olives, sedges, midge, micro caddis etc. It was still the plain grey SHE that was the flavour

We spotted a few good fish early on that would not entertain anything over the nose, but waiting until later on and having a good idea where they were, worked a charm, after 10 when they started to show again they didn't ignore much.

I still fail to understand why people spend so much time hunting silver or chasing rainbows when on the river you can strike gold and sometimes with rubies.



Not a monster but fantastic colours, who needs the rockies for cutthroats when the Don can produce fish with such beautiful colours, funny shaped spots too.

We also saw a pair of otters, a doe and two fawns and various raptors and one or two nice spotties




Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Nice close up of another BWO. this one is darker than the last few and might point to why the grey DHE is so good and why the flies often look really dark on the water. the last couple were freshly hatched, i think this one has been about for a few hours as i found it in the garden




 

Sandy