My Fishing Holiday

OK October posting has been light, in fact so light this is my first! At the beginning of the month once the river trout season had ended I took up an invitation to visit Scotland and continue my quest for salmon.

Now you may think having guided throughout the year, fished just a bit myself and introduced a lot of newbies to the sport of fly fishing, that I would not be in the mood to fish hard? Not a bit of it, 5 days hard fishing produced 2 fabulous fish of 6lbs and 9lbs. Both were cock fish in their pre spawning colours and while many would prefer to catch a fresh run bright silver salmon, I rather thought how very handsome these fish looked, not unlike a big male brown trout!

It was a great trip all round, my only frustration being that we could not go for the trout. We had 2 days of low clear water when the salmon had no interest and trout were rising to BWO's. Some real crackers too! Ah well, their is always next time!

Tight Lines

Steve