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Title: Day on the Dee
Post by: Michael Buchan on 27/09/2011 at 08:58

A quick report from Saturday haven’t posted much lately as Saturday was the first days fishing ive had since about July  :z19

Decided to treat myself to a day on one of my favorite beats of the Dee Aboyne.  As luck would have it i had the beat to myself so could pick and choose where to fish.  Within the first hour managed to catch a silver/gray fish around 13lb (left camera in car)  so was thinking it was going to be a great day unfortunately the sun came out and the rest of the day was a struggle until first cast in the Red Rock pool and the line went solid.  For the next few minutes i was convinced i had a fish that had wrapped me around a rock as felt the thumping but line wasn’t budging.   Turned out it was a big tartan cock fish around 19-20lb 37-38inches took a blue tinsel bodied willie gun fished off an AFS hover shooting head and 10ft medium sink polyleader.
 
A few photos of the beat and fish

The irrigation pool

(http://i55.tinypic.com/9h76ns.jpg)

The stones pool
(http://i52.tinypic.com/11hyybl.jpg)

The fish
(http://i56.tinypic.com/4v39mw.jpg)

(http://i52.tinypic.com/aexpb7.jpg)

The fish doesnt look as big in the photos for scale the rod is a 15ft LPXE and the reel is an opti megaloop which is a big big reel.

Hopefully i will get out a couple more times on the Don before the season ends  :z16

Michael

Title: Re: Day on the Dee
Post by: Ewan Lindsay on 27/09/2011 at 11:12

Excellent fish Michael - congratualtions!  :z16

Ewan

Title: Re: Day on the Dee
Post by: Iain Goolager on 28/09/2011 at 20:45

Aye aye Mike,


Firstly...................nice bling!

Glad you had a good day and well done with the fishes  :z16

Iain