Nice pics Sandy
Similar reflective thoughts being had by me on the river bank.
I was hoping for one last day at the trout but content with the previous 2lb’er opted to try my luck at a salmon.
Now this will likely be a tad controversial and I considered not posting this here but I reckon you guys will be able to look past the method/madness and appreciate the beauty of a don specimen in striking colours.
Being useless with a double hander and in mental wind conditions, I was spinning using a tasmanian devil with a single black zulu fly trailing an inch behind.
So technically fly fishing but not as we know it
Up a steep bank, I cast upstream of a known rock and swung into the path of this beauty.
I initially thought it was a coloured grilse as it splashed then bombed for weed cover, I then had to slide bear gryll’s style down the bank into a seriously precarious position to net it, sinking into silty mud.
It was surprisingly lightly hooked, kept submerged, photo’d quick and released back strong to fulfill its destiny.
The photo’s don’t do it justice at all as I was elevated and wary of both sinking further and dropping my phone but could gauge it around 22/24” with the rim of my gye net.
Delighted to have encountered a fine don trout in its fully dolled up and ready for action jacket.
Next post will hopefully be of my first double hand rod caught salmon, perhaps on a black zulu