Hard day for 2 salmon on the Pitlochrie beat at Stanley.
Charlotte Gifford spinning a flying C on the Dyke at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland on the lower Tay beat called Pitlochrie.
Not long after this she hooked a small salmon which went absolutely crazy and ran up the other side of the river in the shallow water and got stuck solid.
I tried to free the fish by letting line away but to no avail. I could still feel the fish but it would not free. After much debating in my head i decided to go to the other side of the river to see if i could free it. This meant walking 500 yards down stream and crossing the river by boat and walking or running up the other bank then wading 3/4 of the way back out into the river.
I did this and made up on the caught line. The fish had run up the shallow water behind the ledges getting stuck in the process. When i reached it i freed a couple of bits but still no sign of the fish. Finally on the third bit i could see the fish dead in the water hanging by the hook. I netted the fish on the opposite side of the river from which it was hooked. What a tale! Probably just as well that i had waded round as the fish would have been lost and died in the process.
Mrs Charlotte Gifford with the fish. A lovely fresh sea liced 7 pouds fish.
Brian Giles fly fishing in the Kirkie stream. We had another small grilse during the day which was released.
2 comments:
Lovely picture of Brian and The Red Lodge!
Bob
Where was Geordie He could have gone across.He can walk on water!!!!
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