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Index => Main Discussion Area => Topic started by: JakeM on 09/02/2011 at 22:08
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hi everyone
looking for a days fishing, anywhere open at the moment? any advice appreciated
Thanks
Jake
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Hi Jake
Welcome to the forum :z16
I guess you are asking about stocked fisheries? I think Delgatie, Lochter and Loch Insch are probably open, some of the others are still frozen.
Best wishes
Mike
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Thanks Mike
wasn't sure where was closed due to ice.
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Keep an eye on the fishing reports section http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=3.0 (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?board=3.0) :wink
But asking here is good for feedback too.
Cheers
Mike
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Has anybody been fishing at local stillwaters this weekend, what were conditions like where you were?
Cheers
Mike
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First weekend I have not been out this year. It seemed to never stop raining here. 6 nations may also have been a factor :z18 :cry :z6
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Fished Lochter yesterday morning, only managed a couple of hours as the weather was miserable and bloody freezing.
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Waulkmill now completely icre free permits now from the Key Store the square Maud.
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Jim
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Loch Insh ice free now. Caught my first Rainbow of the year- a 5 & 1/2 lb 23" long beast. cracking fish,.
(http://i56.tinypic.com/34htlr6.jpg)
( edit = resize photo to fit forum width )
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For a handy guide to posting photos, see http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1951.msg15775#msg15775 (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=1951.msg15775#msg15775)
Cheers
Mike
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Cheers, got picture up now.
David.
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Couldn't deal with cabin fever any longer and so headed out to Lochter for a few hours this afternoon. 90% ice free today but wet, windy and cold. i lasted 3hrs but still managed 8 rainbows. They liked goldhead GRHEs and Olive Damsel. Still drying and thawing out in front of the fireplace...
Ewan
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Great stuff Ewan :z16
Pretty damp and cold for it today, but I know what you mean ..... it's good to blow away the cobwebs :cool:
Cheers
Mike
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Couldn't deal with cabin fever any longer and so headed out to Lochter for a few hours this afternoon. 90% ice free today but wet, windy and cold. i lasted 3hrs but still managed 8 rainbows. They liked goldhead GRHEs and Olive Damsel. Still drying and thawing out in front of the fireplace...
Ewan
It was on olive damsel i got mine on at Loch Insch on Monday.
David.
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Olive damsels (particularly Goldhead ones) are one of my most successful flies too David. They seem to work in most places all year round. They make an excellent "wiggley" movement when fished slow and on the sink of a sink and draw retrieve. Along with a Daddy Long Legs they are what I try when all else fails...!
Ewan
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The Daddy is my ultimate fail-safe, prevented a good few blanks last year. I only know of 2 other fish being caught at Loch insch on monday, 1 of those was also a olive damsel the other a red bloodworm. I've only really been fishing since last spring, so i'm still learning. My casting is improving slowly. Mondays fish was the biggest i've caught so far.
David.
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A 5.5lb fish is a cracker on any day David - congratulations on your new personal best. If Mike ever thaws out Haddo :) then try your luck there too, there are some huge fish in there and some superb Brown trout similar in size to your Loch Insch fish.
Ewan
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Damsel nymphs are certainly high on the menu at our local stillwaters :z16
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJ8Kk9ug3P8
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Good video Mike. The Damsel bottom left even did one of those little "wiggles" I was taking about! :z4
Ewan
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Went out to Lochter again today as the weather was quite good. The lochs are Ice free now and there was little wind and even a few bits of sunshine :z12 . I managed 5 Rainbows and 1 lovely Wild Brown (see picture) of about 2.5 pounds. Black/White Dancer was the order of the day.
Ewan
(http://i55.tinypic.com/2cmmag6.jpg)
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That's a tidy brownie :z16
H :z3
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Aye thats a bonny fish Big D :z15
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Jim
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A beauty, you must have been pleased with that. :z16
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Cracking fish Ewan ...... what a beauty! :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Beautiful fish. I'd have been chuffed with that one.
There's been a spate of good wild broons showing up regularly in our northern fisheries for the past four or five years now.
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Yep, that one made my day. It was in superb condition; fin perfect and put up an excellent fight - much better than bigger rainbows today. I asked the chap in the Bothie if they were stocked Brownies and he said that they had never stocked any Brownies and that they had all got into the loch(s) from the stream (I guess when it's in flood).
Ewan
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Actually there was a stocking from Bob at Forgue in a few Northern fisheries that was supposed to be all 'bows but had some browns mixed in.
Not that i'm saying all these fish came from this source, far from it, but it did explain the apparent sudden regular appearance of big browns in Insch, Rothes and Lochter.
No deliberate stocking of browns but accidental.
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I believe they must have come down the feeder pipe which comes from a wee burn. Just goes to show the feeding in the loch.
I released one there last year of about 4lbs which was attached to a rod and reel that had been pulled off the bank earlier that day. It was in perfect nick as well but totally different colour to that one.
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Actually there was a stocking from Bob at Forgue in a few Northern fisheries that was supposed to be all 'bows but had some browns mixed in.
Not that i'm saying all these fish came from this source, far from it, but it did explain the apparent sudden regular appearance of big browns in Insch, Rothes and Lochter.
No deliberate stocking of browns but accidental.
Interesting Allan, not heard that before. Think accidental stocking could be responsible for a lot of interesting catches ie small bows from certain places that the owners always swear have been spawned in the Loch.
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I think its pretty common for fished to be mixed up in stockings and the odd diff species turning up in say only rainbow stocked waters.
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Went out to Lochter again today - beautiful day, flat calm and sunny. 4 Rainbows and another cracking wild Brownie - this one was almost 5lbs and, again, was in perfect condition. It never ceases to amaze me the difference in condition between stocked and wild fish. Goldhead GRHE was doing the damage. Sorry about the picture quality; the light was getting dim.
Ewan(http://i55.tinypic.com/9rlj41.jpg)
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That is a cracking brown Ewan well done. :z16
Henry.
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Another nice fish Ewan. I'll need to get over there quick before you've caught them all. :z4
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Well done Ewan ..... nice one :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Actually there was a stocking from Bob at Forgue in a few Northern fisheries that was supposed to be all 'bows but had some browns mixed in.
Not that i'm saying all these fish came from this source, far from it, but it did explain the apparent sudden regular appearance of big browns in Insch, Rothes and Lochter.
No deliberate stocking of browns but accidental.
Certainly cant speak for other waters,but rothes has not had any browns from forgue as far as Im aware.Brown trout have been coming out of rothes regularly every year, for many years,Char were mixed about 4 or 5 years ago but not browns.
For one, they are way too expensive to stock.Why stock em when you get them for free from natures own water.
Sorry,we did get a couple(not dozens,but if memory serves it was 3) around 9 years ago,they were some x brood stock of 7/8lbs when it was hard to get large rainbows so we took them instead.
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Strange one that Kevin as it was at Rothes i asked Bob about this, and he confirmed that browns are often in the batch, especially if they'd gotten mixed in after heavy waters at Forgue? Would explain the sudden appearance of these fish in the catch returns.
Anyway not matter as they're crackin fish none the less, and i'd still be happy to nail one or two.
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How many years ago was this?
Not going into details,but certainly the batches which Derek delivered,I havent seen any browns among them in many years.In the past few years,Bob has delivered personally to us about 5 times himself,so this must have been many moons ago when he was there.
Maybe the odd small one will get mixed in now and again,but not in the numbers which are caught to say they are being stocked as part of a stocking.
Certainly there is no sudden appearance of browns at Rothes they have been consistant for many many years.
Hence my clarification on this.
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Granted it was a while ago Kevin. If you need the exact date just look back your catch returns for the sudden appearance of browns from say 2lbs to 5lbs?
Fair do's though if none of your fish have come this way then i stand corrected. It's your water afterall so you'll know it best.
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Thankyou for your reply.
I only wanted to put the record straight reference this as our water was mentioned along with others.What another water does or doesnt do is of no interest to me,but I only wished to clarify on ours as this is how rumours can start and if we had put them in we would say so and anglers would be welcome to take them away as we are a put and take fishery.
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Very interesting week this week, most anglers are catching around one to six fish for their session, but those who put a bit of serious thought in to things are releasing something like a dozen to 30 fish :z3
Great to see :z16
Cheers
Mike
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Great news Mike. Sounds like the fish are getting into a feeding cycle. Hope we don't get another big cold snap to feck it all up and knock everything back (or back too much)
Allan