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Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #630 on: 04/07/2012 at 18:16 »
Very well done Danny boy :z16

Iain

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #631 on: 04/07/2012 at 18:46 »
Great stuff Dan, still remember my first don trout on a dry.  :z16

danbruce

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #632 on: 04/07/2012 at 22:06 »
Cheers guys,

Certainly gave me a bit of a boost after a few blank outings.

Dan

Noel Kelly

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #633 on: 04/07/2012 at 23:17 »
Out again tonight and it was pants. Lovely and mild, good bit of fly life but no fish moving.

Geoff Gill

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #634 on: 05/07/2012 at 11:17 »
Was out also last night, calm warm and muggy, not much happening until about 21:30 and noticed a big fish feeding just below the surface. chucked all i had at him and nothing  :z19. On walk back to the car i spotted another slightly smaller fish feeding regularly mid river, put on an f-fly but due to fading light missed the take  :mad.
Ah well, good fun anyway and i'll be back for the big fella another night. 22:30 the fog turned heavy so packed up.

Well done on your fish Dan  :z16, i also tried tying my first ever klinkhammer and tried it last night and apparently i have made a wet version  :shock

Geoff

Patrick Star

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #635 on: 11/07/2012 at 21:37 »
Hey i am planning to go fishing on the don up by Alford early next month and i was just wondering if anyone has any tips for the beats up there and any general river fishing tips as I have very little experience on rivers especially fly fishing? :z8

much appreciated.   

Rob Brownfield

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #636 on: 11/07/2012 at 22:41 »
Out last night above Grandholme bridge with a 12 and a half footer and a collection of small tubes.

Visibility was about 18" and the river was holding steady in the rain.

I should have stayed at home as I have twisted my back quite badly, probably my poor spey casting :(

I had one fish, a 10" trout that took a 1" copper thing made of orange, yellow and black hair. Munro Killer varient perhaps?

danbruce

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #637 on: 13/07/2012 at 14:03 »
Has anyone had a look at the river today?
I have a free pass on Saturday and was hoping to get some Salmon fishing done. The river levels online have it dropping nicely but not sure if the water will be clear or not.

cheers,

Dan

Liam Stephen

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #638 on: 13/07/2012 at 16:23 »
How's it looking today? I'm back from 2 weeks holiday tomorrow and plan to get out on Sunday, will it be worth while?

Liam

Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #639 on: 13/07/2012 at 16:52 »
No more rain and it will be fine.  I'm going castin tonight so will update later.

Cheers

Be

Ben Dixon

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #640 on: 13/07/2012 at 20:54 »
Still pushing hard and quite big but clear enough to fish, slight stain but not too bad.

Cheers

Ben

Mark Zhang

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #641 on: 14/07/2012 at 00:15 »
just came back from the river. was fishing for trout, had some bite, but no catch. flies was nymph. it's freezing after 11pm, so decided to come home. heard someone caught a 9 pounds salmon today. Water was ok, but not very clean.  :z18

TimTheFlier

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #642 on: 14/07/2012 at 08:42 »
Managed to sneak away for a few hours yesterday afternoon halfway along the Balbithan and Torryburn Beat.  

Despite the water levels still being higher than normal, starting to run a little clearer and after finding a nice deep pool not far downstream from a burn that flows into the Don, saw a lot of reasonable size fish rising for a hatch.

Lots of fish rising but only the one for the net on a #12 CDC & Elk (approx. 1.5 lbs) - THANKS YOUNG GUN !!  Tips, advice, tapered leader and flies all really helped.  Hope to meet up with you next week now you're back and before we lose you altogether.



Tips I've learnt from some our our forum mates - cast to rising fish and match the hatch - all came together yesterday - made a nice change from the 2 inch tiddlers that seem to plague my fishing !

Here's to the water levels dropping and the sun making a welcome re-appearance.

Tightlines all.

TtF

Iain Goolager

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #643 on: 14/07/2012 at 09:30 »
Well Done Timmy the Pilot, continual improvement is the name of the game so I'm glad things are coming together for you.

Iain

Loxiafan

Re: River Don 2012
« Reply #644 on: 14/07/2012 at 10:26 »
Hope to meet up with you next week now you're back and before we lose you altogether.

That sounds ominous for Young Gun ? Nice fish TTF, and good fly !

Will be oot masell the night given that fish plus Ben's assessment - tomorrow looked like best bet but Sarah-triplebarrell-name weather girl on BBC has now predicted it will pish doon right over us tomorrow ! Ah well she's sometimes gets it well wrong.

Lindsay

 




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