You are fishing way too fast...the slower you draw the line the better...18 Inch slow draws and a pause between each..and don't tighten into the fish right away let the fish turn go back to the lie and take some line then slowly raise the rod..the fish will hook itself..also use a sink tip to match the water height
Hi Phil, I’m using a 12’9” rod line rated 8/9 which works fine but maybe a smaller switch rod would work better on this river. Thanks for watching and tight lines!
@sc-flyfishing Thank you. My favourite go to is a 12ft 9in Hardy Demon #8/9. Its an absolutely beautiful rod to use and you can fish all day with it without tiring. And it's chucks an AFS head or Rio Skagit as far as my 15 footer. Cheers mate.
Strange style. Let it swing and dangle then strip. That's a triple faster strop than still water trout ? . Why pull line out when you have the fish under control.
I live in this area and have stood on the banks but never fished the shin. That and its neighbour the cassley are on the spring to do list though. Another river near there worth a shot is the alness.
Sad luck loosing that fish. That said, next time suggest you pay attention to your fish instead of fooling around with your phone. Also, totally agree with comments about your drag... if set correctly you NEVER need to play with your lines just keep steady pressure on and work them to the best location to land them. Better luck next time.
Late autumn salmon dont always eat well..energy muscle and body going into producing eggs and milt. Yes I fully agree with catch and release with autumn fish Simon Artley Manchester UK
😂😂😂salmon don't eat anything in fresh water any time. They take out of aggression. They only feed at sea. And pointing your rod at the fish is the correct way as you need them to take line and turn. If you strike you lose the fish
Great video of a wee Scottish salmon from a wee river. Just so people know,most Scottish rivers run a catch and release policy on salmon to try to get population numbers back to what they were 50yrs ago.
1 salmon per angler for a season seems reasonable and would at least offer something to be kept aswell as keep population increase going. Be good to see the rivers return back to old days
I would shoot a dear for food. But for what some people consider sport no. There is ,however ,an advantage to Americans hunting dear. At least they're not shooting each other.
I want to go fly fishing with you!!!!BTW, I can see all bugs flying around and if mosquitoes think of your blood as a “fine wine” like they do with me, they also HATE the smell of coconut. 😀
In the middle of watching you fight this fish at the start of the video! What a fight it's putting up! May I ask what river this is and how I would go about getting on it for the 2024 season? Cheers!
Thanks Simon! Yeah it's the Cascapedia, the drag maybe isn't as good as some reels of a similar price but it's certainly good enough, plus it sounds great!
I've caught grilse up to around 7lb on small rivers on Arran. Sadly forestation (leading to faster floods) and otters messed these rivers up many years ago but still my favourite memories of angling are there. Not on the fly, the rivers were too small for this method so we used worm or prawn.
Drag was set too tight when the fish was in close. If you feel the need to pull line off the reel, that's a good sign you need to loosen up the drag. Like another commenter mentioned, it can be good to play the fish by hand when it gets in close, but a lot of people prefer to just loosen up the drag. Many big fish have been lost due to drag being too tight when the fish gets close.
U give it slack when u pulled line off your reel in my opinion it takes very little for fish to get that degree of slack.we all loss fish tight lines 2023
I had no idea what you were doing there. Why were you paying out line and encouraging the fish to run downstream into the fast water? You had a perfect place right in front of you to land that fish and should have kept the fish there until your dad arrived. In fact the fish was in that slack water for some time, until you paid out line to it and it ran downstream.
Thats the joys of it. Sometimes no matter what you do is not enough. As we say if your name is not on him you wont get him,. Keep her lit man. Just subbed.
