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Post by cannycatchacold on Sept 12, 2010 9:08:24 GMT
This time next week Im going to be like a kid in a sweetie shop looking forward to my week in Melvich. Me and the wife are hoping to get a day or 2 Salmon fishing aswell as a few raids on our favourite hill lochs up Glen Strathy. Im hoping to get lucky and get a day or 2 on the Thurso but I wont know for defo until I get up and make a call. If memory serves me correct I read years ago that "backing up" was a tactic used on the Thurso but with myself being a Fly Novice could somebody put some light onto this for me? I can just remember it was done in the slower pools and was done by the angler moving backwards?? but Imk not 100% sure.
cheers john
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Post by macd on Sept 12, 2010 10:52:18 GMT
john- better phone eddie mcarthy for availability 01847 831591. its very busy
backing up. Start at the tail of the pool; cast square; make a few steps up stream; handline the fly until its close into your bank.....repeat.
dont just use it on the canal sections.
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Post by cannycatchacold on Sept 12, 2010 12:20:53 GMT
Cheers Macd. The call ive to make is to Eddie Ive alreay e-mailed him, there is no promise of a day but I live in hope. cheers john
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Post by ballingall512 on Sept 12, 2010 21:05:49 GMT
I;ve always wondered where backing up fits in, as far as the modern "eticate" on the river bank, What I mean by this is when fishing with others, when the norm is to take a pace or 2 downstream and work a pool head to tail. Would it be acceptable to fish a pool, with someone waiting to go through behind you, by starting at the tail and backing up through the pool Fair enough if it's quiet and nobody is waiting to follow through the pool. Are their any rivers/beats that don't allow you to back up???
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Post by Deleted on Sept 13, 2010 15:39:03 GMT
Dave,
I have only ever backed up pools in an upstream wind which ruffles the water and also with a dropper about 4ft up from the Tail Fly. No one else on the beat though.
To answer your query, though; I would find it hard to imagine Backing Up on Association Water. Could not honestly see it working.
However, on a Beat where there are say, 16 pools and 4 or so anglers, I can see it working as long as the Back Upper clears it with anyone he sees fishing down conventionally.
tweedbunnet
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Post by heedthebaw on Mar 5, 2011 9:31:33 GMT
When I was a teenager fishing the Thurso I knew an old gentleman who fished the association water for many years and knew the place like the back of his hand. He would speak about backing up the pools though I had never seen it done as he said it only worked during a spate And only on two pools on the beat. I arrives at the salmon pool one morning and the river was high after rain the previous day and the old man was there making his way up to a pool us locals call the high brae's a long swirling pool notorious for great fishing in high water, he shouted to me to come with him and he'd show me how to do this and this is what followed. He started at the bottom of the pool cast out a straight line till the other side he then set the rod on his right shoulder and hiked of up along the Bank at a normal walking pace. He'd only walked no more than ten paces when the rod was near pulled out of his hand, this was repeated 4 times within an hour and every fish was double figures and the takes were highly aggressive. I followed up the pool trying to copy him with no reward so not as easy as it may sound and took me a while to crack it properly but no question it can be very effective method to fish and thrilling as the fish chase the fly at a fair speed as it swings round in the current.
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