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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by John Wastle on Today at 15:34 »Lovely fish above, and encouraging as I have a pass to fish the Don a couple of days this weekend 
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Mike Barrio on Today at 13:22 »Great stuff Sandy - gotta love how you're not feared to get your camera under the water 
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Sandy Nelson on Today at 13:04 »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
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
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Sandy Nelson on Today at 06:44 »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
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
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Mike Barrio on Yesterday at 22:54 »Nice one Al
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Al Greig on Yesterday at 21:49 »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 
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Fly Tying / Re: More muddler madness
« Last post by James Laraway on Yesterday at 13:56 »trying out some pink deer hair (especially for Terry !)
The hackle is golden pheasant rump , hook is #10
The hackle is golden pheasant rump , hook is #10
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Gavin Stevenson on 23/04/2024 at 07:14 »had some success lower Don on wet fly, Greenwell, pn Saturday and Sunday. Same observation Mike that risers were sporadic
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Mike Barrio on 22/04/2024 at 22:49 »Enjoyable afternoon on the water today in good company ..... not ideal conditions, quite a brisk/cold wind with a bit of rain thrown in to keep it interesting ...... but there were fish to be caught during the sporadic hatches
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Rivers & Lochs / Re: River Don 2024
« Last post by Michael Kearney on 21/04/2024 at 12:02 »Thanks, Sandy. I look out for the spinners of March Browns and LDOs early in the season and carry a few spinner patterns just in case, but I’ve not yet found spinner feeders in April. As your report demonstrates, it is certainly worth attempting to discern the range of food items available at the surface when trout are up and rising and taking time to change fly to give them what they want.
Good to see wild fish in fine condition.
Good to see wild fish in fine condition.
