Devron Diary Pt 1
I got up to Aberdeen on Sunday lunchtime and Michael and I met up with my good pal Stuart for a bit of stillwater trout fishing . Stuart had sniffed out Dalgety trout fishery and we had a great time catching some really nice rainbows on dries and I was lucky enough to seem him christen his new rod!
Monday saw us on the river chasing salmon. There wasn’t a great deal going on as we started but as ever I take my barometer watch on this annual trip and it is really nice when you see it tick up while you are sitting watching one of the others fishing and shout out it has popped up a bit and lo and behold Gilbert hooked something. I was taking a breather so popped down to offer Gilbert a helping hand should he need it and just shout a bit of encouragement. He doesn’t really need it as he has caught more salmon on this fishery than most of us have had hot dinners but it is always nice to see the first fish of the trip come in. It fought hard and deep and it was a case of sitting out to a degree which is what he did and it swam off strongly when we popped it back. Michael also had a 6lber so things are starting to happen. As for me, I had a pull and a fish roll at a fly but that was it. I felt like I had covered the water and had mixed my flies so feel I couldn’t have done much more so I am pretty happy. I have a shortish beat to myself tomorrow so will give it a good go….we’ll see. Gilberts fish below…
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