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Post by badcaster on Dec 6, 2009 19:26:30 GMT
i used to love fishing with dennis buchan at kercock but im looking forward to newtyle this spring ;D
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Post by underghillie on Dec 6, 2009 19:58:15 GMT
Little Blackhall ;D Why? Because its not on the Tay
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Post by underghillie on Dec 6, 2009 20:08:34 GMT
Aye it was that ;D The only thing to spoil it was gettin kicked oot o the stag in the wee small hours and they wouldnay open the bar in our hotel ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by underghillie on Dec 6, 2009 20:54:56 GMT
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Post by earnie on Dec 6, 2009 20:56:48 GMT
The Lower River Brora, ideally left bank. Nice size of river and always the chance of something, especially after some high water followed by a hard frost to slow them down from going into the top river. But when that wind blows upstream, it's hard work.
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Post by stincharstoat on Dec 6, 2009 21:07:57 GMT
Murthly- Top class, pity abt the ghillie-joking...
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Post by ptg on Dec 6, 2009 23:01:54 GMT
park north!
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Post by underghillie on Dec 7, 2009 12:35:59 GMT
Murthly- Top class, pity abt the ghillie-joking... Which 1
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Post by stincharstoat on Dec 7, 2009 21:10:02 GMT
The one way the Ghillie that thinks a Hardy ringtone is a fish taking his harled flee on a viscount reel.
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Post by underghillie on Dec 7, 2009 21:13:04 GMT
Canny be murthly 2 they dont use cheep reels there
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Post by jeannie on Dec 9, 2009 14:40:54 GMT
canny be murthly 1 they only use hand lines
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Post by underghillie on Dec 9, 2009 16:50:20 GMT
canny be murthly 1 they only use hand lines ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D
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Post by stincharstoat on Dec 9, 2009 22:40:21 GMT
cheap reels but braw coffee.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 13, 2009 7:48:04 GMT
I have many happy memories of fishing on the North Bank of the River Forth from 1972 onwards. Plenty of water to cover and not a lot of anglers - maybe 40-50 - many of whom seemed to spend all morning drinking coffee etc and swapping stories
Always felt there was a chance of a decent fish waiting for me and was proved right on several occasions!!
Not fished it since the mid 1980's. Would love to give it a crack with a Shooting Head and big Tube as there are several good spring lies I used tp know about in those days - probably all washed away now!!
Red and Gold was the No.1 Colour followed by Green and Black up the Greenbanks and Brown and Gold was also good as was a Green and Yellow. Yes it was pretty much all Devon Minnows - a 2.75" Aluminium being the local favourite. A Galbraith Minnow, it was called and Crockhart's in King Street used to sell them as well.
Personally, I prefered using Tobys, Elipses and Kynochs.
It is probably a good bit different nowadays with all the various angling pressures and reductions in numbers of Spring fish.
There used to be a further decent run at the time of a Spring Tide but I was back into my golf or football by that time of year and never fished for Salmon at those time! I was a true Spring purist in those days.
Fishing was "Nae guid" unless there was frost or snow about!!
It was just they way you picked things up from other anglers in those days. No internet then - just Oglesby and others to read about Salmon fishing. People were a lot less aggressive than I am led to believe occurs now. I understand that it can be more than a bit of a rugby scrum at the Pool these days. And B&W Powerlites etc are all the rage!
I would have never have believed such relatively expensive gear would be on show in 2009. When I started fishing the Forth nearly 40 years ago, I cannot recollect seeing anyone using a fly rod in the Spring. The river is quite tricky to fish with a fly at times. Indeed, the only fly fisher I ever saw was at Stirling's Auld Brig at low tide in the summer around about 1963!
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Post by keirstream on Dec 13, 2009 14:17:02 GMT
Aye, happy days indeed TB. No surprise to see fish caught from February 1st then. I remember the marketing of the day---February is Toby month. As you say the local favourite was the 23/4in. aluminium devon which was available from a number of sources on the river, worthies such as Brian Fullard, Jock Innes and others. Jock Galbraith and Davie Goodwillie sold to Crockarts in return for fishing on the Blue Banks. These were generally double the riverbank price---you must be minted. Preserved sprats mounted on a lead tube and coated in amalacity was also a local favourite---Jock Innes was my source and they were deadly in the spring. Changed days now though, April is early enough. The last time I witnessed the Forth frozen over must have been 20 years ago. Nowadays the fish just run through to Blair Drummond and above, all the way to Callander where they lie until the water is right to go through to the loch, very quickly too in recent experience with the Leny also missing out in the spring. Yes the pool can be a bit busy , just head up and downstream for space and much more fly rods on show nowadays, probably 50/50 split. You never see anyone now at the Auld Brig. Foolhardy anglers used to get stranded there on the piers until the tide turned it was a favourite spot for some as was at the rowing club and down ar Gaestetner. Never hear them mentioned now. On the question of agressive and unfriendly behaviour, its all but gone now. There is a firm hand on the tiller who accepts no nonsense. You would enjoy a cast and a blether there again.
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