[Mike Barrio]

Fishing this weekend? ....... What's the plans, who is going out to wet a line then?

Gus tells me the upper River Don has continued to fish well this week, Haddo fish have been feeding well and I believe the River Ythan has a good head of fish in it.

Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

I'm fishing the Deveron on Monday, so hoping for the river to be in good fettle 

Probably fish the Ythan mid week and Haddo in the tube Sunday , life is sweet 

 

Jim
 

[Iain Goolager]

Club outing for me tomorrow - off to Lochter but my mind will be on the Don. Hopefully next Saturday I'll have a go for a Salmon or two.

Good luck if you're on the river.

Iain

[Michael Buchan]

Fishing the Don at Alford tommorow hopeing to get my first salmon of the season.

Michael

[Ben Dixon]

Good luck, Alford could be good.  Expecting a few pictures tomorrow.


Ben

[Iain Goolager]

Michael,

I'll eat my hat if you don't at least contact a fish. 

good luck

Iain

[Mike Barrio]

Cool .... enjoy guys!

Cheers
Mike

[Michael Buchan]

Cheers Iain,

Ill post tommorow if you need to get a new hat or no  

Thought i should tell you joined your club this week   am now the proud owner of an oldschool style loop opti unfortunatly its the megaloop but at least im covered if one of the 3/4lb brownies at Kintore decides to run for 500yards ill have the backing to cover it  

Michael

[Mike Barrio]

One can never have too much backing!

[Matt Henderson]

I'll be fishing for new jeans and maybe a wee treat from somers (aye somers fishing tackle rather than anne summers) if I'm a good boy.    Best of luck to Iain and Michael.  By this time of the year the fish should be forming an orerly queue at Alford!   

[Mike Barrio]

Black & Peacock Spider, Crunchers and Diawl Bachs retrieved quickly just under the surface seems to be the most productive tactics at Haddo so far today

Colin meets "The Broons"



Cheers
Mike

[John Reid]

I'm just back from the Don at Kinaldie.  Been out since first light this morning.

The only thing I got was wet baws'    Moved a few fish but no hook ups 

[Barry Robertson]

Iam just in from a hard day on the lake of menteith, it feels like winters getting closer thats for sure 

[Mike Barrio]

Iam just in from a hard day on the lake of menteith, it feels like winters getting closer thats for sure  

Aye, but there're worse places to pass a day Baz

[Matt Henderson]

I'm still interested to know how safe Iain's hat is! 

[Mike Barrio]

Will it be this hat? ...... looks a tad chewy

[Matt Henderson]

I'm sure he'll have one of these ready to wash it down with

[Iain Goolager]

NICE!!!

yeah, come on Michael, what's the story?

[Mike Barrio]

Yeah, where's the Windyknot when you need him?

[Michael Buchan]

Started fishing at Alford before, 8 river looked good crystal clear and hopes were high. Fished there  till 12 the highlight of the morning was watching a lovely 2-3lb brown come up and nap a sedge 5 feet infront of me unfortunatly on the salmon front only saw one the whole time.

At 12 moved to a beat further upstream and managed to catch my first Don salmon and probably the 3rd biggest salmon ive taken around 14-15lb caught it on a black and orange shrimp flie fished with a 10ft fast sinking polyleader   What made the fish even more memorable was that i was using my 9ft 6# Scott S4 and a home made shooting head.  First salmon on a single hander and it was awesome.  Was using 23.5lb seagar flourocarbon and i was sure my rod was going to go before the leader was it was bent double throuout the fight, definatly one of the best angling experiance ive had so far still chuft

Sorry guys i would have like to see Iain munching on his hat also 

Will post a photo of the fly used later

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff ..... well done Michael

Pity about the hat

Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

Aye well done 

 

Jim

[Ben Dixon]

Good shit Michael 

Doesn't really get much better than that.  How your S4 handle the fish?  Biggest I've landed on a 6wt is 12lb4oz and that came in in well under 10 mins, dragged in a 9lb fairly fresh fish in 4 minutes on 18.5lb tippet.  What head set up were you on?


Cheers

Ben

[Matt Henderson]

Well done I hope I can emulate your success soon!

[Michael Buchan]

S4 handled the fish really well i was lucky in that the fish choose not to run downstream to far as couldnt follow him.  Knowing i had on stong leader and rod had a guarantee  meant he was in quite quickly under 10 mins and was fresh as a daisy when he went back. Definatly have no reservations about using the rod for salmon again as i doubt the fish would have been in any quicker using a DH rod.

Setup was an old DT 10 Shakespeare Floating line cut back to about 20feet. attached to Vivarus floating running line. The business end i had a 10 foot fast sinking polly leader and 3feet 23.5lb Seaguar fluro leader and cone headed blak and orange shrimp tube.  Took a few trips out to get the length of the head right but happy with it now.

Michael