[Sandy Nelson]

Nice trip out this afternoon

Not often i go out on a sunday, but it looked perfect and i have some brownie points i can use
bumped into quite a few mates, great to see people

The river was bubbling with fish on arrival around lunchtime, lots of grannoms and Olive uprights hatching, trout seemed to like the olives
Had a few nice fish, nothing massive but good fun
Some of them even had big red spots



Seemed to die off about 2pm so did quite a bit of sitting and talking, then there was a quick flurry of something smallish and Dark, looked like LDO's and the trout switched back on for about 30mins, dead again by 4.30. Had to go home then so not sure if there was more to come, but it had that feeling that it might continue with some short bursts.

Lovely afternoon to be on the river

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Sandy, nice pic too

Fairly heavy rain in Inverurie this afternoon.

Cheers
Mike

[Iain Cameron]

... not sure if there was more to come, but it had that feeling that it might continue with some short bursts.

hi Sandy - good to see you this afternoon. You timed your departure well enough. Nothing much stirred after you left; I didn't have another cast. Called it a close at 5pm. Yup, a good hatch up 12-2ish, looking forward to tomorrow now!

cheers
iain

[Mike Barrio]

[Eddie Sinclair]

Mike,

great video, Sandy, stonking troot. Well done.

Eddie.

[Sandy Nelson]

Had a wee foray out this afternoon
Water was slightly coloured and i had to endure Hail stones and some cracking downpours, but when the rain stopped the fish would start.
Had quite a few nice fish all around this kind of size, this one had fantastic big spots



Didn't see any monsters, but lots of salmon parr to try and dodge and some nice steady feeders when the rain stopped.

Cracking hatch of Yellow Mays this afternoon but the fish only seemed interested in the Olive uprights. Clouds of black midge and grannoms all over the water and a hatch of LDO's as well, So flies everywhere, and fish feeding in between rain showers.
Worth speculating as well, my CDC spider was well received in quite a bit of the pocket water i explored, so worth a punt if it looks fishy

Sandy

[farrochie]

I had about 4 hours on the river the day, the top stretch above the Ardtannes mill. Had a few takes and landed two trout. Weather was fine, big hatch of flies.

[Simon Bruce]

Had a couple of hours on my favorite stretch of the upper river today. Weather wasn't the best rain and a upstream wind was making the fishing hard but kept at it. Seen a couple of rises from a pool that i know holds some good fish, so on went the dry 3 cast in and all hell broke loose 20 mins later landed my best ever brownie.


Absolutely chuffed to bits. Just wished i had my scales with me to get the weight of the fish.

Simon

[Hamish Young]

Now that is a belting trout - well done 

H

[Sandy Nelson]

Stonker...well done Simon

Looks like 3.3 times the length of the cork on your rod, So approx 24"? full bodied, if so i'd would reckon its about 5lb+. It certainly looks it from the photo, awesome stuff.

Sandy

[Eddie Sinclair]

Absolute belter, fish of a lifetime.

Well done.

Eddie.

[Mike Barrio]

Cracking Brownie

Cheers
Mike

[Noel Kelly]

Wow that's a beauty! 

[Scott Cumming]

 

[Scott Cumming]

Headed down to the river for a cheeky couple of hours this afternoon. Nothing much happened until 12:50 when there was a burst of sunshine followed by a decent hatch of caddis, managed to tempt some nice browns on an emerging sedge pattern, good fun for a 15-20 minute spell then all went quiet again.

Scott C