Salmon Adventure Technique

So I wanted to give you a nice picture of a perfect summer fish [from a previous year's report by the Spey Fishery Board] and also to say it is to celebrate a fantastic recent week's fishing on the river Spey.  Also to say I have been dipping into Jock Monteith's fascinating blog at  https://www.salmon-fish-scotland.com/Scottish-Salmon-Fishing And here's a taster of Jock's evocative writing by way of a quote: The Natural Buzz Of Catching A Salmon "It takes hours and sometimes even days to come back down to earth after you treat yourself to some 'Salmo Salar' adrenalin and often it will put even the most accustomed recipient into a floating state of euphoria such is its potency power. For those of you who have experienced this unique high then you'll understand exactly what I'm referring to and for those who haven't then get with a professional salmon guide who's talented enough to help you put the ball in the back of the net! Salmon fish...

So it had to happen. I finally got my 2021 fishing season off to a start.  I caught a Findhorn grilse. And then another one. I used the techniques in my posts above. Stalking. Trying something different. Reading the water. Fishing very early.  TBH that last one was the hardest. 😂😂😂 The flies? A tiny plastic Cascade tube. And a nice size 12 double hairwing with yellow orange and black in it. And some nice orange twinkle. The grilse below engulfed the tube into the gills and despite returning it he went 'totally un-returnable' so he came back to the Logie log hut camp to supplement our supper. #howtocatchmoresalmon

An October grilse  So here's one I caught a few years back on an Irish Shrimp Fly, fished off a full floating line. But the line was so old and battered, the tip was sinking. Ergo - a sink tip. And that's fishing. Here we are then in 2021 and we would all like to catch a post-covid salmon, wouldn't we? I know I would.

WHEN WE GET OUT OF LOCKDOWN AND BACK ON TO THE RIVERS, HERE ARE TEN WAYS TO GET YOUR ROD BENDING AGAIN TO A SALMON. Try something different. (Strip your fly back fast, and/or radically change fly size even using a much bigger fly, change lines, change rods, change pools.) Stalk your fish (keep a low profile, tread carefully). Fish the best bits fast – and cover the water including mutliple pools (a walk or car ride away) if you have that option. Take a break (just stop fishing, talk to a friend in the fishing hut, have a brew or go back to your digs and shower and change). Because when you restart you’ll be a different fisher with a different atttitude and that’s when you catch fish. Try a fast sinking line in deep pools, even in low water conditions. Might be a time to try that bigger fly stripped back past the noses of fish. Or give the normally surface-fished Sunray Shadow a swim through deeper, fish-holding water. In pools with a slow-flow, cast 90 degrees directly across, and ‘men...