A large full colour new book in our Canadian library features hand-tied saltwater tied flies. It features a dozen famous fly tie people form a lady in Scotland to the Mirimashi guy in NB Canada and down into Maine. Atlantic salmon, of course. The flies are incredible.
Hi Bjork, I have been ask to pass this to you as Bill isn't to good with technology. Gary. Hello! We are a charity based in Scotland and who operate a salmon fishing museum in the town of Kelso(see website) We would like to use a film clip of your video of the salmon underwater taking a fly on one of our screens in the museum and would be very grateful for your consent to copy this, and of any other underwater video which you might have Bill Quarry River Tweed Salmon Fishing Museum
Don't get it! Right handed angler uses weaker left arm to play fish so that the simple process of winding can be done with the right. Too much unnecessary arm swapping for me! Never understood why any right handed angler needs to do this.
Okay, a new additional bucket list item! Salmon fishing in Iceland! Yes! Just a thought, maybe weigh down the fly more. Here in the U.S., we wrap the shank of the hook with lead to weigh it down to get deeper into the zone. BTW, dragging it onto shore is perfectly fine. 😊😊😊😊
I'd love it at the end of each season if you were sent a report by 'the all seeing eye'! In that report it told you how many pools you fished that actually did or did not have fish in at the time. What casts you made which had fish interested etc. It's a complete fantasy but it would be great just to know. It's a really interesting video just to see how the salmon react. Amazing shots.
Crystal clear water, beautiful. Spare a thought for us Irish Anglers who fish peat stained rivers and can never know if we are actually covering a fish as we can't see if they are present or not.
The commentator knows nothing about fly fishing for salmon...... His idea is to change the fly when the salmon took the fly already on the line........ Ridiculous. A lot of mumbo jumbo is bandied about re the correct fly. Two flies are needed to catch salmon a light colour and a dark colour but in different weights. The weight is of paramount important because the depth at which it fishes is crucial........ The salmon pictured are ready to take in any case and are seen to rise quite a lot through the depth of water but the angler is not in touch with his fly. Fishing as such he will miss takes on a regular basis. Obviously he has not caught many salmon on the so called Fly.
What is strange to me is the fact that he walks way back into the bank without any reason. Stay put, reel in when you can, and let the drag do its job...
I've just read your post. WEll with rrepect you don't know a thing about my experience. I've caught fish in Scotland when my expert Welsh pals caught nowt as well as 30 others caught nowt staying and fishing at the same hotel. One another occasion I caught two salmon when a scot born in the house just up the bank again caught nowt....... and I've caught fish on days others failed so how would you compare my inexperience to theirs? Always keep an open mind. Another tactic that is likely to be more productive is never fish with a slack line because it's a bad habit! More fish would have been caught if the fisher was more in tight contact with the lure.
Yes they are nasty parasites but they don't live long at all in freshwater. The salmon has just come from the sea a few hours ago if sea lice are still attached to the fish.
I'll explain you "normies!" ( joking).....in pacific , Atlantic salmon, arctic char,(+ sea brook,bull and varden) sea trout, and steelhead (cutthroat too) cultures we Love sea lice ! There associated with the most powerful fish.They have just arrived in fresh water and haven't spent the insane energy it takes to get up river.. thus are carrying nasty lice from the sea. They die in the fresh water and have there place in the ecosystem,
What beautiful underwater filming, I could watch this all day! Most educational too learning how and where they hold and how they react to our flies. Such clear water too. How spectacular that you get to enjoy that!! and we do too vicariously. Do you have more videos?
Some interesting notes 1) many takes could be unnoticeable for the angler 2) salmon rarely chase the fly too long, most takes happened when fly was very close to the fish 3) fighting of one hooked fish doesnt spook the rest of the crowd
Þessa á þekki ég eins og hendina á mér. Ólst upp í Nesjahverfi og þarna lék maður sér mikið. Er mögulegt að kaupa þetta á disk eða eitthvað slíkt? Var þetta gefið út?
