[Iain Cameron]

another Deveron outing today, though cut short by increasingly uncooperative downstream, in-ma-face, winds.


Had a cast at three trout. One came in at 2lb, which I'd have been happy with in the conditions. But a wee flurry of MBs brought up a better lad, that netted in at 3 & 3/4lbs, so I was delighted with meself.







He had been moving about hoovering up the flees. I'd planted my backside on a rock at the tail of the pool. He popped up right in front of me, about two rod lengths away - a wee flick of the fly out to my side was all it needed to fool him. Me still sitting down, of course.


called it a day at 2.30 as the wind just became horrendous

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff Iain

[Ali Mcewan]

Great day on the upper river today.
First wee pool produced this


In the next pool I picked up this fish, note the yellow tag in its dorsel , any ideas?




Moving up the river I bent into some more







Reaching a long deep pool I sat and had a smoke while watching a fish sip off the top every 30 secs or so. Trying to remember sandys words of wisdom, I changed to this cdc jobby with scruffy buzzer body 😎 Up he came & sipped it down





Here's the proof sandy 😎




Here's a couple of the pools I came across








Watched this in the hope a monster would tackle him 😂




Not to be though, he made it safely across..

[Sandy Nelson]

Brilliant stuff Ali

I'm sure I was reading about those tags the other day in a DBIRCT newsletter, but I'm not sure where.... I'm pretty sure they are the tags the Moray firth trout initiative were using when they were recording the movements of the fish a couple of years ago.
Allan would know he was involved with the project.

Looks like lovely water, cracking day for it too

Sandy

[Mike Thornton]

Ref. your tagged trout.   That is a standard type of tag used widely for tagging both trout and salmon.  If you had looked closely the tag would have shown an individual identification number, and a telephone contact number  for reporting capture details.

[Ali Mcewan]

Spoke to Colin from the board, one of 15 tagged last year to try monitor movements & its the first caught.
I get a bottle of whisky too 😎😂 horrid stuff 😂

[Ali Mcewan]

Couldn't help going back for a last 10 minutes

[Liam Stephen]

You're the man Ali. Glad to see those flies from our secret exchange went down well! 

[Mike Barrio]

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[Ashley Thomas]

Yesterday was a great day on the water to be had with the 'Young Gun', and I finally got to meet Allan, Iain and Simon 

Fishing regular tactics proved to be successful, only once we'd found fish gorging in their summer lies already.  Liam got off the mark with a nice Seatrout Kelt, followed by myself with a few fish up to the 1.5lb mark.

It was Liam again who landed another cracking fish, this one being 3.5lb on the nose - what a fuss it held on the 476!



In the same stretch of water I landed my best of the day at a cool 2lb. Not the biggest, but fought well above its weight on the 580. I had another of slightly bigger proportions however it was dropped at the net 



Once the hatch really going it was plain sailing from then on and fish continued to be brought to the net. A large flurry of MBs accompanied by a few olives really brought the water alive. Covering most risers first or second time proved easy business
 




Back to work next week sadly  but hopefully I'll be out again soon (some of us have to work  )

Cheers,
Ash 

[Liam Stephen]

Nice one mate. Great report! Enjoy work tommorrow, I'll be thinking of you whilst catching trophies! 

 

[Allan Liddle]

Not to be outdone a wee report on how i've fared so far:
Plenty fish keen to take a DHE or two although still surprising to see so many MB's being ignored.  Also found a wee bit frustrating when fish locked onto emerging nymph and ignoring even the half in DHE style patterns.

Anyway plenty fish so far with a load in the pound plus range, a few in the noteable two plus range and one trophy 3lb 3oz with one other lost and one missed (in front of witnesses  )  A few fresh run finnock as well just for added spice.  So far so good.

Good to hear of the tagged fish capture, Ali did you check to see if some of the other fish you caught had hook marks on them as i know exactly where you were 

[Ali Mcewan]

Allan, I had a feeling you might 😄 Great bit of water, needed a bit more water in it I think.. trying to wade the deep long pool up the top was a experience 🙈😂

[Liam Stephen]

I was on the Deveron on Sunday after 6 days of wind, it was nice to fish without it again. The fishing was excellent and lots of fish were caught upto around 2lb.  I watched my buddy hook and loose a fish around 5lb, gutted for him as he lost a good one the day before as well. I added another few pics to the trophy album. 23" and somewhere between 4.5-4.75lb. A big dark brute of a trout!







Anyone care to guess the fly it fell for? May offer a prize for the first right answer! 

 

[Allan Liddle]

Waterhen Bloa ? 
Cracker Liam the wee boys method did well for me on the Isla as well with a nice two pounder