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Title: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Sandy Nelson on 27/04/2022 at 17:02

Mike and I had a different fishing buddy today

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Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Mike Barrio on 27/04/2022 at 18:28

Lots of buddies today, deer, hare - perhaps there was a message in there somewhere  *smiley-grin*

Cracking day to be on the river  :z16

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Iain Cameron on 28/04/2022 at 08:25

Nice companion to have.  An osprey flew over me the other day on mid Don, with a squirming brownie of about a pound or so in its talons. Very cool, though I didn’t see the actual capture.

A stoat strutting its stuff is probably my rarest sighting so far this season.

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Alex Russell on 30/04/2022 at 18:15

For me it was Thursday on the Avon pine Martin came up the opposite bank have it a squeak an it stopped looking straight at me then scurried off into the undergrowth

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Allan Liddle on 01/05/2022 at 09:22

Been very lucky this year with Otters, Ospreys, Stoat, Red Squirrels, Kingfishers all making an appearance.
Spotted Red Kites (not around here though), Buzzards, Sparrow Hawk (front garden), Badgers (alive and dead), Roe Deer, Dolphins (in the sea not on the river  *smiley-tongue-out*), and a first was a hare swimming across the Deveron.

Rarest things so far though have been Ian Cameron buying me a coffee and Hamish smile and wave when he drove past me yesterday  *smiley-funny*

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: James Laraway on 04/05/2022 at 11:19

Funny you mention pine martins ! I hadn't ever seen one until 2 weeks ago.

However, driving back from having dropped off a pal who was doing the Loch Ness Etape the other weekend one ran accross the road in front of me at about 0530 on the outskirts of inverness.

Then last night at about 930pm one casually walked up my drive and past the living room window !!!

Quote from: Alex Russell on 30/04/2022 at 18:15

For me it was Thursday on the Avon pine Martin came up the opposite bank have it a squeak an it stopped looking straight at me then scurried off into the undergrowth

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Iain Cameron on 04/05/2022 at 15:58

Quote from: Allan Liddle on 01/05/2022 at 09:22

Rarest things so far though have been Ian Cameron buying me a coffee ...

aye, very funny :-)

Pine Marten - that's a very cool sighting indeed

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Ian Fraser-Stables on 05/05/2022 at 22:31

Gosh you all live in the most beautiful part of the World.  :)

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: James Laraway on 05/05/2022 at 22:50

I went out for the first time this season this evening and there was a sea eagle over the loch ?!?!?;

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Terry Coging on 06/05/2022 at 09:13

Been on Clywedog yesterday and Wed. Red Kites and an Osprey were my buddies. Plenty of fish too - averaging 3lb (my pal had a ten pounder!). I was straight lining buzzers on the wafting rod.
Clywedog has got to be the most scenic lake in the Principality and although it is stocked it is like wild fishing.

Title: Re: Todays fishing buddy
Post by: Eddie Sinclair on 08/05/2022 at 00:03

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My fishing buddies today in the marshes of Louisiana were pelicans and alligators and millions of horseflies which were attacking us all day. However the redfish and the Drum were a blast on the 888 epic that was built by Sandy