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Title: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 15:49: Where am I?

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: danbruce on 15/11/2012 at 16:11: Hi Mike,

Looks a bit like Cambus o May suspension bridge? Probably way off though.

Dan
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 16:16: Good try Dan ...... but not there :z3

Cheers
Mike

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 15/11/2012 at 16:23: One of my favourite pools Mike!
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 16:28: Quote from: Ben_D on 15/11/2012 at 16:23
One of my favourite pools Mike!

Possibly! :z4

But let's see if anybody else can guess where I am? :wink

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Hamish Young on 15/11/2012 at 17:35: I'm saying nowt - but I know 100% for certain which pool that is :wink

H :z3
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 18:34: I'm 98.25462% sure I know where that is but I don't know the name of the pool! Or the bridge! I will pm you mike so as not to spoil the fun :z4
Please post on here if I'm right but just pm me if I'm wrong! :z4
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 18:39: Well done Noel :z16

Let's help the others a bit more ....................

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 15/11/2012 at 18:54: Don't know what it's called either but I caught a little salmon parr below the bridge a few years back when over for the Gathering :cool:
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 18:54: :grin
I like this idea of the out of focus shots of well known places. Keep em coming mike :z16 Will go get some myself when I next have a day off. (Xmas prob :z6)
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 19:00: Quote from: Marc Fauvet on 15/11/2012 at 18:54
Don't know what it's called either but I caught a little salmon below the bridge a few years back when over for the Gathering :cool:

With you catching a salmon there Marc and it being one of Ben's favourite pools it could become a busy pool next season once someone names it! Or is this going to go answers by pm only :z4
Dilemma now Mike :z7
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 15/11/2012 at 19:22: Hazard to guess...the pool would be The Bridge Pool..and the bridge would be The Pool Bridge?..lol

Call me Sherlock!
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 19:24: Yes Rob :wink
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Post by: Rob Brownfield on 15/11/2012 at 19:28: In that case..I know, i know...lol
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 19:53: No dilemma Noel, It is one of Ben's favourite pools on the Don, he has lead me up endless tracks and paths to "favourite pools" which I have then caught no fish in :z4 and this is the one where Marc caught a salmon parr :cool:

Here you go folks, I'm sure many of you will know where I am now :cool:

Cheers
Mike

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Iain Goolager on 15/11/2012 at 19:54: Pretty sure I smashed the France out of a Z-Spey there :oops
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Post by: Iain Goolager on 15/11/2012 at 19:55: Oh you've posted it. :grin
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Post by: danbruce on 15/11/2012 at 19:59: Nope still don't know where it is. :z4
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 21:09: Where am I?

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Post by: Alex Burnett on 15/11/2012 at 21:18: Mike

I would say you are at the confluence of two rivers. :wink

Wont spoil it for others. :X2

Alex
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 21:19: Lol that one is a little difficult Mike! Under a bridge :z8
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 21:21: Well done Alex :z16
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 21:32: Quote from: An Chuileog on 15/11/2012 at 21:19
Lol that one is a little difficult Mike! Under a bridge :z8

Another clue Noel :wink

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 21:56: Ah you have given away the whole tail there Mike. :X2
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 22:01: Quote from: An Chuileog on 15/11/2012 at 21:56
Ah you have given away the whole tail there Mike. :X2

Probably way too easy now Noel :z7
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 15/11/2012 at 22:20: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 21:32
Another clue Noel :wink

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Noel likes this photo :z4
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 22:22: :z4 :z4 :z4
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 15/11/2012 at 22:51: So ..... looks like Alex and Noel know where I am :cool: Anybody else?

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 10:25: I was in Inverurie folks :cool:

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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 13:24: Here is one that many of you should recognise ...... Where am I today folks?

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Post by: Alex Burnett on 16/11/2012 at 14:09: Hi Mike

If I'm right plenty of guys should get that right as it has been there a long time.
I think it might be the Poldullie Bridge over the Don near Strathdon.

Alex
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 14:13: Nope, I'm not at Poldullie Bridge today Alex .... nice try :z16
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Post by: Rob Brownfield on 16/11/2012 at 14:37: Would it be rather close to "the big Yin's" summer abode?
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 14:41: Depends what you call "close to" Rob ..... but I think I can safely say that you are barking up the wrong tree :wink

Cheers
Mike
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Post by: Iain Goolager on 16/11/2012 at 15:14: Is there a mound behind you Mike?
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 15:28: Quote from: Goolager on 16/11/2012 at 15:14
Is there a mound behind you Mike?

Yes Iain :z16
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Post by: Iain Goolager on 16/11/2012 at 15:32: :z16
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 15:35: Well done Iain :z16 ....... Another clue to help the others :wink

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 16/11/2012 at 15:53: I reckon there was a recent tenkara instructional video shot not far from there.
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 16:21: Quote from: An Chuileog on 16/11/2012 at 15:53
I reckon there was a recent tenkara instructional video shot not far from there.

Yes, you could be quite right Noel, well done! :z16

And another clue to help the others ......................................

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Irvine Ross on 16/11/2012 at 16:29: The bridge at Castle Forbes?

Irvine
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 16:33: Nope, I'm not at Castle Forbes today Irvine .... nice try :z16
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Post by: Ben Dixon on 16/11/2012 at 20:34: Definitely one of my favourite spots Mike :z16

I'm not going to be the one to give it away!!

Ben
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 16/11/2012 at 20:59: Quote from: Ben_D on 16/11/2012 at 20:34
Definitely one of my favourite spots Mike :z16

I'm not going to be the one to give it away!!

Ben

Hang on a minute. When have you ever been down there Mr Dickson unless maybe holding hands with your girlfriend?
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Ben Dixon on 16/11/2012 at 21:24: Quite a bit in previous season Noel :wink
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 16/11/2012 at 21:24: Quote from: Ben_D on 16/11/2012 at 20:34
Definitely one of my favourite spots Mike :z16

Possibly :z4

But let's see if anybody else can guess where I am? :wink

Cheers
Mike

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 14:15: I think most of you have a fair idea of where I was yesterday ...... but where am I today?

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Iain Goolager on 17/11/2012 at 17:05: I might be wrong but the top picture looks like one of my favourite pools.

Iain
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 17:36: Quote from: Goolager on 17/11/2012 at 17:05
I might be wrong but the top picture looks like one of my favourite pools.

Iain

Possibly Iain :z4 :z4 :z4 :X1
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Brian Brand on 17/11/2012 at 17:49: In the first picture, near the far end of the trees, was that where you landed a nice salmon when we were trout fishing.

Bri.
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 18:03: Quote from: Bri on 17/11/2012 at 17:49
In the first picture, near the far end of the trees, was that where you landed a nice salmon when we were trout fishing.

Bri.

Yes Brian, I remember that fish ........ well done :z16

Possibly one of my favourite pools :z4

Another photo that might help the others to guess where I am :wink

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Noel Kelly on 17/11/2012 at 19:43: Definitely a possibility that pie is one of Ian's favourite foods. Mike I think you may be near the meetings of the Urie and Don but that's a bit of a guess.
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 17/11/2012 at 19:45: Btw Mike France V Argentina at 8 tonight. It's not on tv but firstrow sports should have it from 8. Should be a cracker!!!
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 19:56: Quite a good guess Noel ..... well done :z16

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Only a couple of hundred yards down the Ury from the bridge that I was at yesterday :cool:

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 20:11: Still wandering around the Inverurie Fishings today .... but where am I now?

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Post by: Mike Barrio on 17/11/2012 at 20:57: Another pic might help ...........................

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Post by: Iain Goolager on 17/11/2012 at 21:56: Now, this one might be someone's favourite pool but it hasn't brought me much luck in the past.

Iain
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Post by: Noel Kelly on 17/11/2012 at 22:33: I had a 3/4 lbr from there bout 10 years ago on a wet. I was on a day ticket fishing with a work mate. Was my first day casting a fly on a scottish river and that would prob have made it the third river I had cast a fly on ever. Grew up lough fishing.
I do remember chapping the fish.....poor bugger. How times have changed in a few years.
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 18/11/2012 at 08:42: I was here :wink

Cheers
Mike

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Post by: Brian Brand on 18/11/2012 at 22:11: Spent many an hour as a kid drowning worms here, barley pot.

No mobile phones then, you just knew when it was meal time, your parents knew where you were, for me me it was usually the Ury or here.

Bri.
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 24/11/2012 at 18:06: Where am I today?

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Post by: Rob Brownfield on 24/11/2012 at 18:08: Duthie Park Winter Gardens? ;)
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 24/11/2012 at 18:25: Sorry Rob, but a good try! :z16
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Post by: Iain Goolager on 24/11/2012 at 18:28: Stillwater somewhere?
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Post by: Alex Burnett on 24/11/2012 at 18:30: Haddo

Alex
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 24/11/2012 at 18:50: Well done Alex :z16

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Need that ice to get thicker, but at least it is hopefully providing some shelter :z6

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Post by: Noel Kelly on 24/11/2012 at 21:01: Quality pics mke :z16 gotta love Haddo hope the ice is giving the brownies some protection from the Black Death.

Where's that shotgun smiley! :X2
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Post by: Allan Liddle on 25/11/2012 at 23:01: Nice pics Mike, surprised the fern hasn't turned yet.
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Post by: Mike Barrio on 25/11/2012 at 23:14: There are a few patches that are always late at Haddo Allan, one at the bottom right of this photo. This bank is usually about a month behind the far bank with everything :wink

Cheers
Mike

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 26/11/2012 at 19:01: Ice was gone today :z6
But I've found a new way of scaring the cormorants off ................. salmon prototype fly lines! :z16

Cheers
Mike

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Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Jim Eddie on 26/11/2012 at 19:10: Some nice photo's there Mike :z16

:z18

Jim
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Post by: Allan Liddle on 28/11/2012 at 12:32: Like the pics Mike. Any troots risin? :z4
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Mike Barrio on 28/11/2012 at 12:57: Yes, there were some rising Allan, mainly in the afternoon and mainly in the area that we were thrashing about in :roll

I'll never understand trout :z4

Cheers
Mike
Title: Re: Where am I?
Post by: Rob Brownfield on 28/11/2012 at 15:26: Quote from: Mike Barrio on 28/11/2012 at 12:57
I'll never understand trout :z4

Many many moons ago I started trout fishing on Walthamstow Reservoirs.

One very slow day, the chap that issued the tickets came down to see how us kids were getting on.

On hearing we had not caught a thing, he took my rod, cast maybe 5-6 yards, and proceeded to rip the line out the water, cast, rip, cast and so on for a minute or so, whilst looking at us with a grin on his face.

He then handed me the rod, and said, "Cast out and let the fly sink, dont move it, just leave it to sink".

10 seconds later I was into my first trout, as was my mate.

He reckoned the stockies heard the line ripping the surface and to them it sounded like feed pellets being shovelled into the water, so it was like a dinner bell to them.

Not suggesting your trout are mere stockies...but I wonder if there is a bit of Pavlovs Dogs going on with any fishery reard residents??