Rock Hopping with Springers and Grilse - Spring salmon fishing (2022) 

Thanks Nigel 🙏 and tight lines for the new season 😊🎣👍

Thanks Ian, glad you like both 😄🎣👍

Thanks Tony and looks like you’re having a good season too 👏🎣😊👍

Thanks Nairnfly, and tight lines yourself for the new season! 😊🎣👍

Thanks Chris, glad you enjoyed it 🙏🎣👍

Thanks Matthew 😄, and hope you had a good birthday! 🎉😄👍

Thanks JPS 🙏 and tight lines for the seasons ahead, and enjoyed your recents vids in search of a Feb springer.. a rare bird those! 😊🎣👍

Thanks 🙏 and glad you enjoyed the vid! Those were all in May, sadly not the same day 😄🎣👍. And keep going, only a matter of time until you find a 2023 model! 😊🎣👍

Thanks Tony 🙏😊🎣👍

Thanks Harry 🙏, glad you enjoyed this and the fly tying vids! I know our Irish patterns do well in the Tyne, as you say it’s peaty water is very similar to a lot of ours rivers. I fished the Tyne once and enjoyed it, it was the main river and bigger than most of our rivers but same character. Well done on your Scottish springer, hard to come by this year so far by all accounts! 👏🎣. I’ve only been out once so far this year, last Friday and managed to get a fish and lose a few others.. cutting it fine for a springer 😄. Our runs haven’t been great here generally, but conditions haven’t been very favourable either.. from too much water early on to not very much recently. Hopefully that will change in time for the grilse 🤞🎣. Tight lines for the rest of the season!

@@AndrewMcGall Hi Andrew, Many thanks for your reply.. I am concerned that for all sorts of reasons the Scottish Salmon population is in sharp decline. The salmon is an iconic fish that has been around for many years and it would be a disaster For it to disappear. Hopefully things are not as bad as they appear. I note what you said about being out only once this year…. Congratulations on catching a ‘Spinger’ and losing some others. That is indeed encouraging news! I wish you all the very best with your fishing…..’Tight Lines’………👍👍👍

That’s great fishing Chris 👏🎣😄👍 and tight lines for the new season!

@@AndrewMcGall you too

I’ll see about including that in a future video Christiaan 👍

Thanks Dean 🙏 and yep normally have some sort of tip on depending on conditions 😉🎣👍

Thanks Paul 🙏 and using 13ft double hander and switch rod and mostly multi tip shooting heads, flies usual Wilkinsons and other Irish patterns. Tight lines 🎣😊😄

It’s the River Finn Lewys and plenty of good fishing here, the whole Foyle system can be good for salmon 🎣🎣👍

@@AndrewMcGall looks really nice . Not like most of the canals around 😂. Yes it’s a lovely part of the world for fishing. I’m going to have a go on the Abercorn estate water in April with hopes of a first Irish springer . But first back to Scotland for a day on the glenmoriston estate a tributary of the ness system and a day on the ness it’s self . Have you fished the mourne at Abercorn before?

@@lewysmacdonald2057 yes some nice pools on that stretch, most famous is called the Snaa and lovely pool to fish 👌🎣👍. In April the fish will be thin on the ground that far up the system but you’ve always a chance. It’s generally May before any numbers run the weir at Sion Mills below, but you never know! 🤞🎣🎣

I was using both a 13.2 #8 and a 11.6 #5 switch