Fishing A Highland Stream Today

[Wildfisher]

And it was roasting! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1gn3edV_kM

[superscot]

Loved the scientific terminology used Fred. Will have a wee CHUCK in here loved it very pretty water amid the Tenerife weather conditions and that 2lb fish was your Brucie bonus.

[Wildfisher]

Aye Colin the going was tough for sure but it's always nice to get an unexpected good fish in very difficult conditions.

[Laxdale]

Was that a salmon redd eight minutes into the film?

[Wildfisher]

Was that a salmon redd eight minutes into the film?

Very possibly, looks ideal but I have never checked it during the spawning season. The salmon  go beyond the loch, I've seen them up there in winter, but the majority of them run and almost all the big spring fish go up the other tributary. No fishing allowed at all up there.  Names withheld obviously although most of you will know it.    It is a fabulous  river.

[east wind]

An enjoyable set of videos your putting together Fred, chilled out just watching them. A far cry from what i was doing during that annoyingly cold March/April/May, yomping miles of river bank looking for a single riser mostly in vain.
I've not really been out for over a month now due to the hot dry summer. Golf is the answer.
A handsome trout as a bonus, and like most of us getting the line onto the reel at the first inkling of a decent fish.

[Wildfisher]

Thanks Mac. These videos are just a way of tying my 3 main hobbies together. Fly fishing, photography and to a lesser extent hill walking which is getting harder with each passing year. It just adds another dimension and challenge for me, My fishing  was getting a little jaded and last few years I had not done much of it at all.

We really need some water though.

[east wind]

We really need some water though.

I was looking at the river levels on my local. By my reckoning it's close to the record low and there's no sign of significant rain any time soon. Like I said I've just tapered off to zero recently but I'm going to contact my mate for an update as he's got his his ear to the ground.

Similar to about 4 years ago when we had a cracking summer that coincided with my going to Norway for 9 days supposedly for prime time trout fishing. Turns out they were in the middle of their worst drought in 67 years or something like that

That was the year I rejoined a golf club.

[Wildfisher]

By my reckoning it's close to the record low

We are not at record low yet, the massive floods in late May prevented that so far.

[scoobyscott]

Fair enjoyed that. Great fish given the conditions