Y'all be a Fisherman?

[Muse2k8]

So anyone a keen angler here? Where do you fish? What's your fave fish to catch? Personal best? Any stories?

As a typical scot (no licence required yay!) I'm big on trout fishing on the fly and good old pike fishing using lures and deadbait (livebait being illegal here now).

Was once on a backpacking tour of the Scottish lochs and we stumbled across a beauty of a water. So we decided to camp down for the night and spend a day or so fishing. The next morning out go the deadbaits and have a paddle to cool down. Unfortunately as the hours passed what seemed to promise perfect pike conditions we had nothing

Coming up to sleep time we did the usual of "just 5 more minutes" and boy was it worth it... My reel clicked very slowly a few times then BANG!!! What a run!!! This fish was huge!!! I picked up my rod and went to set the hook... Twang! 30lb braid line snapped like butter ARGH!!!

So yeah nothing from that loch

 

[doug boardley]

I'm a keen fisherman Muse, mainly just for salmon these days on a small river that runs past the house where I grew up (River Mint).

 

[Stef]

Muse, I'm an avid fisher, Fly only these days & mostly salmon. I fished Hoddom on the Annan yesterday for a couple of hours, running a bit dirty, then ended up on the Nith just below Sanquar.

I've got my Nith & Cumnock ticket & Im also on a private syndicate on the river Ayr (Stair)

I'm the treasurer for our small fishing club. 11 members & fish for rainbows round the country, the 1st Saturday of the month from March through to November.

As everyone I wish I could spend more time on the water but work comes 1st.

My biggest rainbow was 14lb 4oz & I caught that through your way, Markle fishery.

 

[doug boardley]

lovely stretch through Hoddom Robson, quite often looked at it when we've been camping at Hoddom Castle, I've fished Royal Four Towns stretch on Annan(I think that's what it's called) at Hightae a few times, but without success.

 

[Muse2k8]

Not salmon fished for years. Used to fish on the River Tweed or the Whiteadder might have to get back into it.

 

[doug boardley]

I hope coming season is better than last, only had 3 salmon, 16lb, 9lb and 8lb

 

[Fliselege]

Not salmon fished for years. Used to fish on the River Tweed or the Whiteadder might have to get back into it.

I've been on the Tweed, got a mate in Melrose, look down from his house and there's the Tweed, couldn't catch a cold but was a very nice spot. Now I just bob for bottom feeders from a boat out on the fjords, luckily I like mackerel... Been fresh water fishing once here, caught a 3" trout and that was my lot for a whole weekend.

 

[Muse2k8]

The tweed is a beautiful river. Especially up Kelso, Melrose way

Ouch doug... Hope you have a better season this year!

 

[doug boardley]

the season before was a belter, I actually lost count of how many I landed. I went out one morning at 7am, and was back home at 9am with this

 

[dave l and l]

nice fish, how may folk you feeding with them. i only caught two salmon last year hope this season proves a bit more productive

 

[Muse2k8]

Not bad for 2 hours!!! Really do hope there's a better year but it does beg the question what the future holds if year after year there's less fish and smaller. Even the tweed is dire now

 

[doug boardley]

the following day was 2 in an hour, water levels and hitting the run just right is the key to the river I fish, it's not much wider than my living room in most places:lol:. But I've found that we can have a couple of bad seasons followed by 3 or 4 good ones.

 

[doug boardley]

this was the first one of the 3 I caught last year, quite early in the season, thought it was gonna be a good season...

 

[doug boardley]

believe it or not, my lads can' wait till I start taking them with me:lol:

 

[kilty55]

im a keen angler muse,im a member of the scottish carp group and a bailiff for them as well,have you ever tried the carp fishing ? have a look at the site mate might be of interest

just about to join a new carp club as well down in melrose called bowden....scotts angling club they have stocked a 10 acre water with some nice carp etc i beleive it has pike as well