[Gavin Stevenson]

had some success lower Don on wet fly, Greenwell, pn Saturday and Sunday. Same observation Mike that risers were sporadic

[Al Greig]

Hi all. I don't get up to the Don so often these days, but a visit to my bruv in Aberdeen at the weekend left me with an opportunity. I visited a stretch I've fished a few times before, but usually later in the season. Getting away at all in spring is difficult due to work commitments. Anyway - arrived around 11.30 in light drizzle, but practically no wind. I wandered downstream intending to fish back up to the car. Turned out I stayed on the same long slow pool for three hours! After midday the odd riser appeared. A while after that, the odd upwing drifted downstream. Then a few more. Pretty much an ongoing on and off trickle hatch of March Browns and LDO's for the next hour and a half or so. It was a lovely afternoon! First fish took a big spider with gusto, and I probably should have stuck with that but I'm a sucker for rising trout so switched to a big DHE. Lots of ignored presentations, but enough acceptances to make me stay with it. As the trickle of fly slowed there was still one committed riser midstream. By this point I'd switched to a #14. And lo, it worked. I don't have a huge number of big Scottish river brownies under my belt, and this was the second at this weight. Well chuffed

[Mike Barrio]

Nice one Al 

[Sandy Nelson]

Great Stuff Al

Been the story of the last few days (read 3 weeks) that.  Sticking it out in good looking water to spot a couple of rising fish during some of the small bursts of flies.  Worth it though 

[Sandy Nelson]

So I managed to hit the only sustained hatch I’ve seen on Sunday for an hour.



Steady flow of March Browns



Led to a few nice fish to the net





Monday saw me downstream for a nice afternoon with MrB.
Back to sporadic bursts of fly and a biting wind. Still a few fish to be found in certain spots.



Tuesday was horrible and I never saw a fish rise so buggered off after a couple of hours.

Wednesday was warmer and I managed to find some stretches out of the breeze where the MBs were popping off.
I sat on a pool where I’ve spent several hours on a particular fish in the last few days. Having spooked him on two previous occasions, this time he accepted my offering



Definitely worth the effort

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy - gotta love how you're not feared to get your camera under the water 

[John Wastle]

Lovely fish above, and encouraging as I have a pass to fish the Don a couple of days this weekend   

John

[Dave Robb]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c2qvdr3zq3xo

Oil spillage at Dyce. 

Not good.

[Sandy Nelson]

I've been watching that one to Dave.
Not the first time unfortunately, hopefully they get it cleaned up soon.

I've had a couple of great sessions upstream this week , with good hatches of LDO's and March browns on Monday afternoon.







Yesterday I went out early hoping for some Olive uprights at long last as they seem to be quite late this year. it was only LDO's on the go early doors



However from 2pm onwards we had a fairly steady hatch of OU's



This lead to quite a few nice fish coming on a steady rise.





last fish of the afternoon was a real bruiser, well chuffed.



So a really good week so far and now the OU's have started we should get some cracking dryfly action for the next 2 to 3 weeks.

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy 

Time to study the Olive Upright in the photo, the Large Dark Olive you posted on the Stream, and perhaps a bit of revision.

Natural Flies Of The River Don https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/river-don-natural-flies.html

Sandy's River Fly Box https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/sandys-river-fly-box.html

Tactics for the River Don https://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/river-don-trout-tactics.html