[Allan Liddle]

Great stuff guys. 

[Scott Cumming]

Had some success on the Don last week with several good trout, the bigger fish fell to a cdc sedge pattern. Things were a bit dour last night, with only a few yellow mays and sedge to be be seen, managed a few up to 1lb8oz....roll on Balmy Summer Nights!






cheers
Scott C

[Liam Stephen]

Holy shit Scott that's a shiny reel!! 

Nice fish mate 

Liam

[Scott Cumming]

Aye, I read somewhere that reel flash entices the bigger ones!!!! 

[Sandy Nelson]

Aye, I read somewhere that reel flash entices the bigger ones!!!!  

Its been orange rods for me

Nice fish scott Daytime or evening?

Sandy

[Noel Kelly]

Daytime or evening?

Sandy

You'd not make a great detective then 

[Sandy Nelson]

 

[Sandy Nelson]

Nice LDO hatch this afternoon

Slurp Slurp.......................................

 

Sandy

[Mike Barrio]

Didn't manage to get down to the river today. What has that rain done, was the river high and brown, or did those showers just run off quickly?

Cheers
Mike

[Scott Cumming]

Didn't manage to get down to the river today. What has that rain done, was the river high and brown, or did those showers just run off quickly?

The river was a very dark export colour this evening, managed a cheeky 4lber on the dry so a pretty good night considering...





Cheers
Scott C

[Mike Barrio]

Great stuff

Cheers
Mike

[Jonathan Kerr]

another great fish    

I had a wee go on the lower river last night.  A lovely evening but the water was pretty coloured where I was so just fished a few streamers for half hour then went home to chill on the couch (and i wonder why i dont catch enough fish!  )

[Scott Cumming]

Yeh, when I arrived at the river I was in 2 minds, the water was borderline fishable, I’m glad I persevered now... well chuffed!

Cheers
Scott C

[Sandy Nelson]

I’m glad I persevered now... well chuffed!

so you should be
Cracking fish


Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Fantastic BWO hatch last night.

Quite a few of these boys feeding hard



Well worth a look out especially at the death, pick yourself a good spot and wait for them to start moving

Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Just been and sorted out my waistcoat for tonight.

And found this attached to the flypatch.



Needless to say i went home a tad disappointed last night, been sulking around all morning wondering what if .

Now i'm ready for round 31 might use a fresh fly though

Sandy

[Marc Fauvet]

  ! what hook is that ?

[Sandy Nelson]

Marc

It's a size 14 B100 and they are pretty strong.
Never had one bend on me like that but then it was stuck in a submarine with an attitude problem
Last night for about 5 or 6 minutes. Guess the fish won 

Sandy

[Marc Fauvet]

damn, those are strong ! must have been a UBoat or something... 

[Colin Sunley]

I feel your pain sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Anyone else out last night?

River was dead except for a brief hatch of bwo's about 1030, very different to friday

Would be interested to know if anyone else experienced this, or whether it was just the beat?

I was on the upper, lower river, same beat as friday, was hoping to chase some of the fish i saw friday, but they never appeared.
I know the river throws days like these. I did wonder if the water was colouring up while i was there, but i couldn't really tell in the low light.

Sandy

[Noel Kelly]

Hi sandy yes I was out from 10 til midnight just down river from you and it was as you describe one 3/4 lbr to avoid the blank and that was about it.

[Scott Cumming]

I didn’t miss much last night then...strange ??? There’s certainly a cooler breeze today, dont know if I’ll bother tonight

Had some action on Friday night, this trout was caught on a sedge pattern at 11pm (thanks for the pic Lewis )



ps Shame about that biggie you lost Sandy, I use B100s a lot and never had a fish mangle one like that before

Cheers
Scott C

[Sandy Nelson]

Nice fish Scott, huge spots!

ps Shame about that biggie you lost Sandy, I use B100s a lot and never had a fish mangle one like that before

First time I've had one do that too, I've just about convinced myself it was a tourist, so I'm much happier about it now
Although I should still have got out of the water,or not bent the rod so hard, or tried to bring it back across the river so soon, or set the reel friction a little tighter, or jumped in after it, or gone fishing on Friday the 13th at all
 

Roll on friday

Sandy

[Sandy Nelson]

Popped down for a chill out after work this afternoon.
After much sleepy ponderings on the river bank in the humidity, i decided to have a chuck at some of the fish that were sporadically feeding on Small dark olives.

So don't give up on afternoons yet

These guys came off between 1530 and 1800 this afternoon on the DHE





A few smaller ones rising too, but the bigger guys were feeding pretty steady, if sporadic, just a matter of watching and waiting, which is sooooooo much nicer when its not raining

Sandy