Fishing The Fly Scotland Forum

Rob Brownfield

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #150 on: 06/07/2010 at 08:50 »
That reel looks a little "Hazey"..nearly bought one myself off Neil...think I will be back for one. Suits the Helios!!

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #151 on: 06/07/2010 at 12:55 »
Another nice sea trout Iain well done. One of these nights in I'm gonna get me one of those bad boys.

Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #152 on: 12/07/2010 at 00:17 »
Just back in from the river, probably the first time I have been in the right place at the right time and not had a salmon rod in my hand this season.  Caught a good few fish in the 1 - 2lb bracket, the best at 3lb 1oz



sorry about the picture :z4

Started about 8PM, the odd fish was moving to spinners, about 10pm some sedges started to hatch, some small (#16) and some quite large (#12).  Had fish on deer hair caddis and Klnkhamers and one or two on a woolly bugger.


Cheers

Ben

Mike Barrio

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #153 on: 12/07/2010 at 14:48 »
Hi folks :cool:

I was looking at the photo of the "steelhead" caught on the lower Don on the fishdon website earlier ...... looks like a stocked Blue Trout to me?

Cheers
Mike

Steven Kidd

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #154 on: 12/07/2010 at 15:59 »
Mike,

I heard of a Rainbow being caught at Lower Parkhill this week as well. :?

Are they escaping from somewhere :?
Steven

Mike Barrio

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #155 on: 12/07/2010 at 16:09 »
Hi Steven

I haven't heard of any escapes from fisheries, it is possible that these fish come from the smaller syndicate ponds which are more numerous than one would think.

Best wishes
Mike

Matt Henderson

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #156 on: 12/07/2010 at 16:20 »
To be honest I'm not really sure how they can say its a steelhead?  Can they not to do scale analysis etc to work out what it was?  To be honest saying "It was a steelhead it didn't have any lice" seems a little bit specaulatory to me. 

I'm surprised that the baliff didn't ask to keep the fish in question to get in amongst it and find out its history?

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #157 on: 12/07/2010 at 16:51 »
Hi folks :cool:

I was looking at the photo of the "steelhead" caught on the lower Don on the fishdon website earlier ...... looks like a stocked Blue Trout to me?

Cheers
Mike

That's one of the photos I saw. It was on a mobile phone.

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #158 on: 20/07/2010 at 23:08 »
Had a day out salmon fishing with Mr Dixon today. I know fek all about Salmon but after today I have now have some idea how to approach fishing for them thanks to Ben's excellent instruction and advice.
Ben had a very nice fish soon after we started and after several hours and a few near misses I finally connected with one.  :grin About 3 or 4 lbs so I think that makes it a grilse  :z8

 

Barry Robertson

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #159 on: 20/07/2010 at 23:13 »
Well done Noel, looks like a fine grilse  :wink

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #160 on: 20/07/2010 at 23:15 »
What the flip are you doing with that Noel - that's not a trout! :shock

Well done 'trigger', nice Grilse   :z16

Where's Ben's fish? was it because he photographed it with his Super Dindy 450 mobile phone?

 :z18

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #161 on: 20/07/2010 at 23:24 »
There are pics I took at least one with his camera. Cant remember now but think it was around the 8lb mark.

Back to the trout tomorrow night :z16

Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #162 on: 21/07/2010 at 01:04 »
Good shit Noel  :grin

You worked hard enough for it mate, really pleased you got one eventually.  Too many near misses thoughout the day for you not to connect, was on the cards from about 11.  That's a seriously fresh looking grilse, did it leave any scales either on you or the net?

I'd give it about 4lb, wait until you get one thre times that size on that on your 7wt, did it go well?

Will get a picture of mine up in the next day or two although it's a bit of a minger compared to yours.


Cheers

Ben

John Reid

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #163 on: 21/07/2010 at 08:17 »
Nice fish Noel.

Looks like you and Ben had a good day out.  Were you fishing at Kintore?

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2010
« Reply #164 on: 21/07/2010 at 08:23 »
Ben yours could have eaten mine so I def wouldn't concider it a minger. It didn't get much of a chance to go anywhere it was netted before it knew what was happening I think. Once in the net it went mental. Didn't notice any scales, think the pic makes it look fresher than it was. It had 2 or 3 small red spots on it but whether that's from where lice have detached or teenage acne I don't know. Lots of rain has fallen since....

 




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