This was definitely a "Dear Diary" day, for local angler Michael. There are many many learning points in this video, but the one that I'd like to point out is the most obvious and the simplest one, the one that every ghillie will tell you. "No matter how disturbed a pool gets during the playing of a fish, once that fish is landed, the very next cast to be made is directly into the exact same spot in which the first fish was hooked.". Such was the case here. After playing and landing an 18lb hen fish, the angler makes a cast into the same spot that he hooked the first fish. You can see me videoing that fish from above the net in which it had recovered. If you listen carefully you can hear the 16lb cock fish taking the fly and the angler's reel alerting me to that fact! The opening scene contains images of the fly that caught both of these salmon and many many others throughout the past three seasons. My advice to anyone intending to fish the Ness in the future, is to give one of those flies a try - spring, summer and back end......... Incidentally, Michael was not meant to be fishing at Dochfour that day but an invitation to fish from another angler was received and accepted. So, in the future, if you get the opportunity to go fishing, my advice would be to grab it with both hands, especially if it's to go fishing on the Scottish Highland River Ness, in July, where summer fish run big! Happy happy days :)
21 авг 2024
