[DJG1984]

The Daddy is my ultimate fail-safe, prevented a good few blanks last year. I only know of 2 other fish being caught at Loch insch on monday, 1 of those was also a olive damsel the other a red bloodworm. I've only really been fishing since last spring, so i'm still learning. My casting is improving slowly. Mondays fish was the biggest i've caught so far.

David.

[Ewan Lindsay]

A 5.5lb fish is a cracker on any day David - congratulations on your new personal best. If Mike ever thaws out Haddo then try your luck there too, there are some huge fish in there and some superb Brown trout similar in size to your Loch Insch fish.

Ewan

[Mike Barrio]

Damsel nymphs are certainly high on the menu at our local stillwaters

[Ewan Lindsay]

Good video Mike.  The Damsel bottom left even did one of those little "wiggles" I was taking about!

Ewan

[Ewan Lindsay]

Went out to Lochter again today as the weather was quite good.  The lochs are Ice free now and there was little wind and even a few bits of sunshine   . I managed 5 Rainbows and 1 lovely Wild Brown (see picture) of about 2.5 pounds.  Black/White Dancer was the order of the day.

Ewan

[Hamish Young]

That's a tidy brownie 

H 

[Jim Eddie]

Aye thats a bonny fish Big D 

 

Jim

[Noel Kelly]

A beauty, you must have been pleased with that. 

[Mike Barrio]

Cracking fish Ewan ...... what a beauty!

Cheers
Mike

[Allan Liddle]

Beautiful fish.  I'd have been chuffed with that one.
There's been a spate of good wild broons showing up regularly in our northern fisheries for the past four or five years now.

[Ewan Lindsay]

Yep, that one made my day. It was in superb condition; fin perfect and put up an excellent fight - much better than bigger rainbows today. I asked the chap in the Bothie if they were stocked Brownies and he said that they had never stocked any Brownies and that they had all got into the loch(s) from the stream (I guess when it's in flood).

Ewan

[Allan Liddle]

Actually there was a stocking from Bob at Forgue in a few Northern fisheries that was supposed to be all 'bows but had some browns mixed in. 
Not that i'm saying all these fish came from this source, far from it, but it did explain the apparent sudden regular appearance of big browns in Insch, Rothes and Lochter.

No deliberate stocking of browns but accidental.

[Noel Kelly]

I believe they must have come down the feeder pipe which comes from a wee burn. Just goes to show the feeding in the loch.
I released one there last year of about 4lbs which was attached to a rod and reel that had been pulled off the bank earlier that day. It was in perfect nick as well but totally different colour to that one.
 
  

[Noel Kelly]

Actually there was a stocking from Bob at Forgue in a few Northern fisheries that was supposed to be all 'bows but had some browns mixed in. 
Not that i'm saying all these fish came from this source, far from it, but it did explain the apparent sudden regular appearance of big browns in Insch, Rothes and Lochter.

No deliberate stocking of browns but accidental.

Interesting Allan, not heard that before. Think accidental stocking could be responsible for a lot of interesting catches ie small bows from certain places that the owners always swear have been spawned in the Loch.

[Barry Robertson]

I think its pretty common for fished to be mixed up in stockings and the odd diff species turning up in say only rainbow stocked waters.