Don Today

« **Reply #150 on:** 06/06/2009 at 19:22 »

Funny you should mention that Brian , they look like Sea Trout to me

Jim

« **Reply #151 on:** 06/06/2009 at 21:03 »

Dont know much about photography and less about sea trout but I think its the flash making them look like that, overexposed?

« **Reply #152 on:** 06/06/2009 at 23:14 »

Went down for an hour tonight to see if that big fish would come out to play. Right on cue it rose once with a loud splash, this is a BIG fish. Few casts and no joy so rested the spot for a few mins. After seeing a few sippy rises from about the same spot tried again and instant hookup! different fish though of about 3/4 lb.
And that was that. Tune in next week for the next episode

« **Reply #153 on:** 07/06/2009 at 01:29 »

It is the flash making the fish look that way, most of the pics were taken in low light conditions. Definitely browns as all but the one on the streamer were rising fish and the rises were too refined & resident brown like to have been sea trout! I will try to upload the pics some time soon, I did not get it quite right, all look much better on the PC.
Was out tonight but very little doing, only made a few casts and saw very few flies about. Will be out again tomorrow and fishing Monymusk on Monday so will report anything of note.

I have a lot of nice bug pics from the Don this year that I will upload to a new thread when I get a chance, would be good if we could get some sort of Don bug picture library going on the forum along with a few details of times, dates, locations & conditions. When we get enough detail maybe it could be added to the main site as a resource?

Cheers

Ben

« **Reply #154 on:** 07/06/2009 at 01:31 »

Hi Ben

Try uploading those photos again using the new forum "tinypic" system ( make sure you use the resize menu )

Cheers
Mike

« **Reply #155 on:** 08/06/2009 at 08:22 »

Was out on Sat morning for the first time in ages - to try out the new salmon rod !

Fishing near the top of the beat with a Ness C variant on a floating line, nice weather then the line shoots out, fish on !!!

then off :-(

almost 1st salmon of the year

the put on a monkey and got a brownie of 1.5lb

« **Reply #156 on:** 08/06/2009 at 13:12 »

anyone got a phone number for the don baliffs ?

« **Reply #157 on:** 08/06/2009 at 13:31 »

You turning yourself in James

« **Reply #158 on:** 08/06/2009 at 14:35 »

what beat were you fishing Piker??

« **Reply #159 on:** 08/06/2009 at 17:05 »

Contacts for don Bailiffs, Don Board and Don Trust:

http://www.riverdon.org.uk/contact_us.asp

Dave

« **Reply #160 on:** 09/06/2009 at 09:04 »

for the last 3 seasons i have fished the don at kintore

i have branched out this year and also fish at Kemnay for a bit of variety ( got a 4lb brownie 1st trip there this year ! )

I was a bit miffed with the spinning mark height last year so was after the water baliff number so i can call him as a lot of people are ignoring the spinning marks !

I have just bought a new salmon rod as i intend to play fair - just wish others would !

I think what they need to do is make some pools OK to spin in, and make others fly only. Or, marker on each pool set at a height appropriate to each pool e.g. the deep ones shoudl have a lower level, the shallow ones a higher level

1st trip out with the new rod on sat morning and lost 1st salmon of the season

however did then get a 1.5 brownie on a monkey

« **Reply #161 on:** 12/06/2009 at 19:28 »

I was out last night with the spinning rod at Kintore (the water was above the mark!) The water was quite cloudy and there was plenty of salad drifting past. Had a couple of tugs just below the bridge but nothing on the bank.

I was usung varioud lures from Flying 'C's to Rapalas and was just wondering if I was doing anything wrong? ??? Does anyone have any tips for this strech of the river?

Matt

« **Reply #162 on:** 15/06/2009 at 09:56 »

Hi Matt

sent you an email.....

probably didnt catch owt due to no fish being there ;-)

« **Reply #163 on:** 22/06/2009 at 23:18 »

Anyone been on the water over the last week? I saw a few salmon moving today below Kintore, hopefully the rain today and last week will have brought in some more tourists.

Cheers

Ben

« **Reply #164 on:** 23/06/2009 at 11:23 »

i was out last night with the salmon fly rod for a couple of hours and saw absolutely nothing.....

« **Reply #165 on:** 23/06/2009 at 12:38 »

Ben, surely you are not starting to like mfishing for tourists!!

Matt, told you before, if you are going down to the river for a tug, go behind a bush or something!

« **Reply #166 on:** 29/06/2009 at 08:48 »

does anybody know who has the fishing rights on the opposite bank from the Aberdeenshire beat on the Don at Inverurie?

I was fishing on Friday and there were two people acting very odly on the opposite bank. One who had a spinning rod but wasn't actually winding his reel in to start it spinning and the other had a fly rod but was more or less just dropping his line into the water and leaving it there almost like he was dapping but he had too long a line for that. I'm pretty sure they were worming but I wouldn't have thought that was allowed.

« **Reply #167 on:** 29/06/2009 at 08:53 »

Hi "MDH"

If upstream of the bypass bridge, that would be the Crichie Fishings, a syndicate water run by Ian Muir that used to have a tackle shop in Bridge of Don. The Ian that runs Corby Loch.

Best wishes
Mike

« **Reply #168 on:** 29/06/2009 at 10:01 »

thanks for that Mike.

Regards

Matt

« **Reply #169 on:** 30/06/2009 at 10:23 »

Anyone having much sucess recently. Feckers have got quiet fussy and are not impressed with my heavy handed efforts. Loads of fish activity (water was boiling in front of me last night) and some good ones as well but cant seem to get hookups with any consistency. Im thinking very small is probably the way to go ???

« **Reply #170 on:** 30/06/2009 at 15:45 »

havent been on the Don in a couple of weeks but was out on the Dee at Garthdee last night....Water was alive with trout as the sun dissapeared....managed 3 brownies, biggest being around 1/2lb and 2 small sea trout....(all on a 15' salmon rod mind you

)....

Anyone noticed any numbers of salmon / grilse up the river yet? Anything off Inverurie recently?

« **Reply #171 on:** 01/07/2009 at 00:09 »

first time out in a while tonight and it was quite tough going, fish everywhere though. Managed 8 in total, largest fish just over 2lb. Was taking them on a #18 black spider tied sparse & short on a light wire hook until about 11 then the rises changed so stuck on a small klink and had on that. Dropped a nice fish, again!!

Cheers

Ben

« **Reply #172 on:** 01/07/2009 at 17:10 »

i had an hour on the don today with my son, we managed 2 sticklebacks with a bandie net!

« **Reply #173 on:** 01/07/2009 at 20:56 »

Quote from: gibbyboy on 30/06/2009 at 15:45

havent been on the Don in a couple of weeks but was out on the Dee at Garthdee last night....Water was alive with trout as the sun dissapeared....managed 3 brownies, biggest being around 1/2lb and 2 small sea trout....(all on a 15' salmon rod mind you )....

Anyone noticed any numbers of salmon / grilse up the river yet? Anything off Inverurie recently?

My boss had a 10lb salmon off the opposite bank to the Manar beat about a fortnight ago and told me he'd seen somebody else taking a salmon from the Parkhill beat (I think it was parkhill he said)

« **Reply #174 on:** 04/07/2009 at 12:56 »

left the office and went straight to kintore last night. Fished from the top end of the beat back towards kintore until it was too dark to see, I'm too chicken to fish in the dark and wade too. Had a few bandies and then a nice brown trout on a sea-trout fly. Didn't see anyhting bigger moving though.