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Geoff Gill

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #540 on: 08/06/2012 at 17:51 »
Was out for a few hours today, water still a bit coloured but clearing. Caught a few small trout and hooked into a decent fish also but lost it. I'll return for him another day if the cows in the field allow me after a young bull gave chase much to my embarrassment, second time this has happened to me. Guess I have bad cow etiquette :)
Geoff

Rob Brownfield

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #541 on: 08/06/2012 at 23:55 »
Guess I have bad cow etiquette :)
Geoff

Perhaps they think you are "udderly" fantastic?


...I'll get my coat!!!!!  :X2

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #542 on: 09/06/2012 at 08:29 »
Perhaps they think you are "udderly" fantastic?


...I'll get my coat!!!!!  :X2

Clearly don't like you mooching about.

Allan Liddle

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #543 on: 09/06/2012 at 14:47 »
Clearly don't like you mooching about.

Come on Noel yer milking it a bit now.

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #544 on: 09/06/2012 at 16:07 »
Come on Noel yer milking it a bit now.

Don't mind me I'm just talking bull.

Michael Buchan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #545 on: 10/06/2012 at 12:05 »
Wifes home today in an hour  :cry decided to get up at 6 and have a couple hours.  Got to the river and it is looking in good nick today.   Fishing a black and orange streamer using a jerk strip retreive (ala Kelly Galloup) on a rio 24ft 200grain sink tip I manged to land this one at around 7:30

3.75lb


Ps anyone interested in streamer fishing Kelly Galloups book and dvds are really good.

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #546 on: 10/06/2012 at 12:09 »
That's an awesome fish dude!  :z16

Liam

Sandy Nelson

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #547 on: 10/06/2012 at 13:58 »
Gorgeous fish. Well done :z16

Sandy

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #548 on: 10/06/2012 at 15:17 »
Excellent Michael  :z16 lovely colours in that pic.

Phil

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #549 on: 10/06/2012 at 15:58 »
What a big browni!!! Beautiful fish  :z16

Fished yesterday on the Don, from 11 till 6pm. When I arrived it was not too windy and some trouts have been feeding on the surface, managed to catch 2 small brownies on the dry fly. Then the wind picked up and I changed to a march brown wet fly...
Suddenly a strike and bend in the rod!!! I though this must be a big one and a second later it jumped and pulled line of the reel. Finally a fish that is bigger than my hand...  :grin :grin :grin

This was my first Don Sea Trout, probably not a monster, but a amazing fish and good fun on the 5wt... I didn't weigth it or meassure it. It took him 20 second to recover, then took of with a big splash and headed upstream...

Can't wait to go out again!

Phil

Phil

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #550 on: 10/06/2012 at 16:00 »

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #551 on: 10/06/2012 at 16:05 »
I've been out the past couple of days also. Friday was good with 9 fish ranging from 1/2lb to 1lb all on the CDC and Elk. I was out last night for a couple of hours from 8.00 - 10.30pm. Some great big fish rising to upwings and sedges, I managed 2 of around 1 1/2 lbs and lost another which was fractionally bigger. All fish were taken on a size 14 CDC and Elk.  :z16

Nice fish Phil, from my homestretch of water too eh?  :z16

Liam

Alan Gourlay

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #552 on: 10/06/2012 at 16:45 »
I had my first River Fishing session yesterday, looking at the pictures above i'm clearly doing something wrong  :cry, caught plenty of 1/2 - 3/4 lb Brownies but nothing to ride home about.

Any information on fly selection etc, would be much appreciated as i'm on a bit of a steep learning curve.

Alan

Geoff Gill

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #553 on: 10/06/2012 at 16:55 »
Nice fish phil.

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #554 on: 10/06/2012 at 17:12 »
Well done guys, good to see and hear of some good catches.

Alan if you had plenty of 1/2 and 3/4 lbrs on your first attempt then you are not doing much wrong :z16

In general most of my bigger fish have been rising and caught on drys. But looking at the pics above one on a streamer, one on a wet so all tactics work at the right time. Being in the right place at the right time is half the battle. For fly selection have a read back through this thread. Loads of info there.

 




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