So I made it to Haddo today for my first outing of the season - after a coffee or three with catman and
mein host it was off onto the (not so warm) water for a play.
Tough start to be honest, connected with two fish (broken on one - doh
) but by lunchtime things were warming up and fish were to be seen about the place. Relocated to a new spot and chucked out a prototype fly on my favoured New Zealand dropper set up and BANG something mighty big took hold. The trusty Winston was bent double and yards and
yards of line rattled out of the rings, an epic 15 minutes later a very large 'bow about 15 maybe 16lbs was in the net.
Nice way to start the season
Next cast brought a lovely overwintered fish of about 3lbs to the dry - nice
Two casts later and everything went very solid again and something tore off determined to get to the Ythan - result about 15 minutes later was another 'bow (a real beauty) around the 11lb mark.
Stopped for a coffee as to be honest I was a wee bit shaky, hell of a start to the season etc etc.
2 doubles in the space of an hour plus a bonus fish to the dry - couldn't get much better could it
Yup - it did
Despite having a couple of flies (including the protoype) well and truly
munched by the fish I carried on and (without boring everyone) I had another 17 fish all over Haddo including another 2 doubles.
Ya beauty
Hell of a day, and a great
great way to start the season.
Thanks Mr B, thank you very much indeed
A very happy.....
H
