Caught napping

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A day out for salmon on the Isle of Lewis. What isn't clear from the video is that I was sitting with my feet up in the little shelter having a nap when it came into my head that there was a fish in the streamy water on the far side of the run just waiting for me. As you can see I basically lifted the rod, and hooked the fish in two casts. However, this came close to the end of a full day working hard for a fish, you make your own luck I guess.

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18 окт 2020

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@pinoyNZTV 4 года назад

for sure your not only there to fish but to enjoy the cool surrounding...

@Kag1310 4 года назад

Brilliant Caorach, I really appreciate your films, very understated.......the rivers out there look fantastic. Covid permitting, a wee trip might be in order for next year. Keep the videos coming👍

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Thank you Keith, if you are thinking of coming then it is well worth dropping Donnie an email on donnie@ohft.org.uk - he is the Angling Promotion Officer for the local fisheries trust and so can provide lots of visitor info. In the end with my videos you only get to see the places I decide to go to so that kind of limits the scope as Lewis/Harris has many hundreds of trout lochs and maybe 30 to 40 salmon or sea trout fisheries.

@Kag1310 4 года назад

@@caorach3354 , much appreciated. Many thanks 👍

@colinmcdougal6233 4 года назад

Another great film.

@mazo2267 4 года назад

Those 'runs' always look so promising to me...that is of course if you've got the right headgear !! As always great commentary, and optimism as ever! 😎👍👍

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Headgear can be very important if you have no hair :-) I wasn't too optimistic when I took a nap in the shelter but even that ended well!

@tomjones7593 3 года назад

Grand video again- roll on the season! Your bankside path looks very well maintained/provided for; so many clubs- and especially estates- seem to want your money but leave some wonderful water totally inaccessible for the fly-and then declare they are fly-only ! Thanks anyway!

@caorach3354 3 года назад

Thanks Tom, we don't have any trees so the banks tend to keep themselves clear though sometimes we get high banks and stuff like that but there is nothing anyone can do about the course of the river!

@tomjones7593 3 года назад

@@caorach3354 Fair point Caorach but I know several local rivers inaccessible as the feeder streams are impassable-at any rate at a fishable level! Plenty of footbridges where you are......

@caorach3354 3 года назад

@@tomjones7593 Yes we are very lucky on this particular river that access is generally good. In very high water there is one area that floods but you can't legislate for everything. However, not all our waters are as accessible and in fact that is the appeal as some of them require a lot of walking over mountains and similar.

@richardjohnson3463 4 года назад

Great stuff Philip, a wee nap always recharges the batteries...as we can see....😄😄 .... lovely images of a great day out. Something blue always worth a throw. Red rules though. Thanks for sharing great viewing

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Thank you Richard, basically I'd given up as conditions looked hopeless and I took into the shelter for a wee sit down. I'd been in there maybe half an hour with the feet up and the eyes closed when I just suddenly decided there was a fish in the stream down the far side of that run for me. As you can see I picked up the rod, sorted myself out, got a couple of casts out, and hooked the fish :-) No idea how it happened but I had a lot of "weird fish" this season and that probably counts as one of them.

@michaelhall7921 3 года назад

That bit of streamy water seems just right for the fly!

@ralpharjun2149 3 года назад

dunno if anyone cares but if you're bored like me during the covid times you can stream pretty much all the latest movies on InstaFlixxer. I've been binge watching with my girlfriend for the last few months :)

@kelvinpatrick8435 3 года назад

@Ralph Arjun yup, I've been watching on InstaFlixxer for since november myself :D

@johnstonstewart7950 4 года назад

Great video great commentary puts me in the mood for a cast .

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Are we going fishing? Hold on 'til I get my rod :-) Thank you for the comment Johnston, it might be a few months before we get back out but we have to remain positive for next year and despite the unusual circumstances this year I did have some great days out.

@johnstonstewart7950 4 года назад

@@caorach3354 great stuff you stay safe ,look forward to more of your adventures next season 👍

@lesleyarcher7347 4 года назад

A quick mention that you have 666 subscribers - Iron Maiden/Revelations number of the beast and all that. But more importantly - the hat is cool. I give ten points for the hat. I know nothing about fish, unless it is battered, so I am focussing on the hat.

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Thank you, the truth is I know nothing about fish or fishing as well so that is why I went for the hat look - it gives you and me something to focus on :-)

@mikdin1 3 года назад

Cool videos. I'm guessing your wielding 7 or 8 wt rod?

@caorach3354 3 года назад

It is a 7 weight Michael, basically I've sort of settled on 7 weight for everything though I do have some 4 weights as well that get used for trout or sea trout on calm days. For the most part out fishing always involves something of a battle against wind so when the conditions are anyway uncertain then the 7 weight always gives a better chance of winning that battle.

@mikdin1 3 года назад

@@caorach3354 👍Sure are giving your 7 weight a work out. Very Nice.

@DavyAdventure 4 года назад

Nothin like followin your instincts for a fish 🥃🥃

@caorach3354 4 года назад

It worked well for me as, given the conditions, I'd almost lost all hope :-) I think anyone who fishes understands that feeling you get when you know you are about to hook a fish, or in this case when you suddenly get a feeling that there is a fish in a certain spot for you.

@michaelhall7921 3 года назад

I believe in 'extra sensory projection...... Unless it's just wishful thinking....... I mean fish do live in the water after all....... so that fish ?????????? and there may well have been a few of his or usually her pals there as well methinks and hopes! Very entertaining your videos..... I must mention about my Welsh pal I am always quoting/ I really miss him if only for a good argument about fishing. He used to shoot geese in Wick and told me - I had a walk but didn't fish but saw some bloke fly fishing and I got nattering to them and said when we fish on the main tributary of the Spey we have got moaned at because we do a lot of upstream casting which gets results when 'nothing else works' Ah they said we cast in and then 'back up'. Iv'e heard of that I said they cast across and then quickly step upstream. That brings the lure faster across and down whereas we cast further upstream. Our water may well be deeper as well than their's. I was always amused at my pal although an expert he did not know sometimes where his lure was wwhen a fish took it! I once said to him where did that fish take you, he said somewhere up there about between 4 ft and 20 ft up! I fished with a heavier tube and knew roughly withi a foot or two where my lure was although only once ddid I see a fish take the lure and that was on a bright sunny day and the fish was right in front to the left about 6 feet away. Apparently a purpleish blue fly works on a bright day, fished on a short line. I would never bank on that being a firm bit of advice for ever though.

@michaelhall7921 3 года назад

Should say extra sensory perception

@marklamude2355 4 года назад

Nice work, Effort equals reward blah blah blah, but in truth you deserved that fish as it was the cherry on your cake, and the cake was nice without the cherry anyway. Great stuff keep em coming sir.

@caorach3354 4 года назад

Thank you, you are right that some days salmon fishing is a war of attrition and you simply have to keep at them until one of them is stupid enough to grab the fly.