Tulchan B Broom Pool - The Far Side: Atlantic Salmon on the River Spey
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- Опубликовано: 1 окт 2024
- A beautiful fresh Spey Springer from Tulchan B's famous Broom Pool.
It’s May here on the Spey. It doesn’t take long and I’m into a salmon in the neck of the Broom pool. Surprisingly it didn’t take in the deeper water where I was expecting but right in the shallows, practically on the dangle. The water can’t be more than maybe a foot deep there. That’s definitely a lesson right there for me on this pool.
For the technical viewers I’ll share my set up. This is a 10 weight 6-piece Atlas travel rod by Scott Mackenzie and my reel today is the Icelandic Einarsson Invictus 10-12. My line is a 10/11 floating Carron Jetstream 65-foot, long belly Spey line, with a 5 ft floating poly leader. This is a perfect line set up for the Spey at this time of the year. The famous Carron Jetstream is a joy to fish with and I would encourage anglers to give one a try. On the point there is 10 feet of 15lb Maxima and I have this size 12 flame thrower on the end.
It’s always a fantastic feeling to land a salmon on the fly. Even better when it is a fresh Springer from the River Spey here in Scotland. It is becoming increasingly hard to find these magnificent creatures here in the traditionally plentiful water of this prime Scottish river. There seems little appetite from the powers in control of the rivers to really make a sustained effort to recover the fish stocks. I worry for the future generations that there will simply be no salmon left and this fine art of fly fishing will be gone forever. Anyway, on a more positive note, this is a fine fish. A prime example of exactly what a Spey salmon should look like. I consider it an honor to have engaged with it and we work it back to full strength and return it to the beautiful river Spey to make its way upstream to where it was born. That is where it will spawn and the next of its generation will begin their incredible lives!
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Another cracking video pal! You’ve taken go pro footage to the next level with your films these past few years. Awesome. I want to go fishing!
Thanks a ton! Really appreciate it! - Hopefully will encourage a few to the water and get things moving!
Fantasic video and lovely fish. Great advice around fly choice for on the Spey for those who will listen 👍🎣🎣
Very true! I see too many 2" tubes! Need to adjust your tactics for the river you are fishing for sure!
An honour shared across the Atlantic Paul! Well done and I still marvel at your cinematic offerings...no detail left to chance...even the incredible sync of the drone footage of you (or your stunt double...) driving up to the beat...this fish will live to fight another day! Mike
Much appreciated! Many thanks for the kind comments. I will also inform the chap who is in the water fishing under the drone. It is in fact a stunt double! :) :) :) :)
Brilliant video. Definitely going to pick one of those lines up. Was this early may in 2024 or last may in 2023? I have the same rod.... unreal 🎣
The line is very good. Allows a real delicate cast which is what you need so such clear thin water with the small flies! Thanks for watching!
Well done Paul, just whetted my appetite for trip to Tulchan C next week! Good to see water is in good nick and fish are pushing through, great video, thanks for posting. Hopefully you’ll connect with a few more!
Glad you enjoyed! Have a great trip to the Spey. Hope you get into some action! Tight Lines!
Brilliant well done. Im still searching for my first Spey salmon and indeed my first of this year. I fished Broom from the other side earlier this year as the water was too high for the side you fished from.
Yeah the side I was was on is very dependent on lower water height. The neck is OK with a bit of water but once you get down off the shingle in deepens quite quickly. Keep at it on the Spey. Salmon are like buses nothing for ages then a few come at once! Tight lines!
Brilliant video heading there myself at the end of the month .
Tight Lines!!! End of May Ommmmpffff!!!!! Get in!!!
Excellent, congratulations and thank you for producing and sharing!
Many thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!