Hi folks
The water is still very cold at Haddo and the fishing has not been easy this week, but a few nice fish have been making an appearance.
Sam Martin tempted a nice rainbow trout of approx 10 lb on a Damsel, Camy Knox a 9 pounder on Black Nymph, Jim Eddie a fish of around 7 lb on Mini Cats and Sandy Nelson a cracking 11 lb rainbow on Red Hook.
Jim Adie fished Bloodworm and Buzzers for his winter league entry and tempted 14 fish up to 4½ lb. John Brown fished a home tied Cats variant for his league entry and enjoyed some great sport with 19 fish up to 10+ lb, including a "tricky moment" when he found himself netting a charr on the dropper and another large rainbow of approx 9 lb on the point fly at the same time.
Junior anglers have got the year off to a good start too, Andrew Lockhart caught the first fish of 2007 on his "Pink Buzzer" and went on to tempt 5 up to approx 8 lb, Daniel Nelson netted 3 to 3 lb on bloodworm and Lewis Calderbank caught 4 fish up to 3 lb on buzzers .......... Well done the youngsters!
(below) Jim Adie did well in very windy conditions
(below) Brian Brand gets some help with the net from Logan Hadden
(below) John Brown was a bit confused by a hard fighting wee charr that was half out of the water on the dropper
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(below) But all became clearer when he realised what had taken his point fly
Best wishes
Mike Barrio
