My Last Day On The Dee | Salmon Fly Fishing | Deecastle | River Dee | August 2022
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- Опубликовано: 4 авг 2024
- My last day on the wonderful River Dee Salmon Fly Fishing saw me visit the Deecastle Waters. August 2022. The beat has 5.2 kilometres (3.2 miles) of fly-fishing, with 22 named pools on the south side of the Dee. There is a bank sharing agreement with the Dinnet beat opposite that allows fishers to enjoy both banks of this fantastic stretch of river doubling the length of river available in the Spring season. The beat winds its way through wonderful farmland and woodland scenery. There are three huts on the beat with more on the Dinnet side.
Access to the beat is by car along tracks to most of the beat which of course is something I just love and adds to my enjoyment of the experience
My channel is called Cornish Chris the Fish. I am a Cornishman venturing out beyond the Duchy to experience life on the road full time touring in my Caravan Dalleth Arta, fly fishing and vlogging my adventure. I am a novice Salmon Fisherman so join me as I experience the topsy turvey world of Salmon Fishing. I am charting my fishing adventures and will profile each fishery that I attend. I may even catch a few fish 😀
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00:00 Introduction
00:57 Logie Pool
16:29 Monarch Of The Glen
27:41 Well that's it....
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Chris Hagen 
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Admire your enthusiasm and perseverance fishing in less than ideal conditions. Looking forward to the day you land a salmon on the fly.
Thanks Bruino. With all this encouragement and support I am sure i will catch one
Another cracking video Chris. Keep up the good work.
Edwin Steffens has a good tip for you. As soon as the fly lands on the water the fly needs to be fishing with a taut line. The taut line will make the fly swing in the current rather than just being washed downstream with a slack line. Everyone has different ways to get rid of slack line after a less than perfect cast but I usually just strip the line back through the fingers on my top hand so that the line in the water becomes taut. At the same time it creates a nice loop of line dangling at your feet for the salmon to run with. Sometimes I also swing the tip of the rod slightly upstream after a cast to get rid of some slack. Wait until the fly has stopped working before you take your 2 steps downstream. This helps to keep the line taut and the fly swinging. If you walk downstream as the fly is swinging you lose the tension and the fly will not work properly.
Another little tip regarding your casting is to keep hold of the rod with your right hand on the forward stroke. It's the old fly casting technique of stopping dead at 10 o'clock and 2 o'clock. I've noticed that sometimes you tend to let the rod "float" at the end of your forward stroke as you let it slide through your right hand. A dead stop at 10 o'clock on the forward stroke paired with a stop at 2 o'clock for the D loop to form will improve the preloading of the rod and improve the distance of your casts. Ian Gordon and Simon Gawsworth have some really good spey casting videos to watch on RUclips.
I hope all that makes sense.
Good luck and tight lines 🤞🎣
Guilty as charged on the casting 🙄👍 something to work on! I did wonder about keeping the line tight. Edwins advice (and yours for that matter) highly appreciated. I just hope i can remember all of this when i get back in the river. Thanks for taking the time to go into so much detail and for your continued support👍😁
Just watched my video again and can see myself letting go with my right hand on casting. I note that on my better casts I don't let go.....i see what you mean now. Thanks again👍
Just, mmmmmm, aaaah, brilliant.
thanks
nice fishing if you ask pls stop mending. If your fly just floats downstream.Salmon will just see it as rubbish like so much which is floating downstream. As soon as you have tension on your line your fly starts fishing across the stream. You can manage the pace of your fly by holding your tip upstream for slow pace or downstream for fast pace. Frödin has a good video on this. Just a friendly tip. Greez and tightlines😉
agree with that comment
Wow! Edwin thank you so much! I completely get what you are saying about this. What incredible support. Thanks for taking the time to give me some advice. Chris
I just watched my video again and see what you mean about mending the line and keeping the tension. TBH i never realized the importance of this. Brilliant advice thanks again 👍
Sure to get a firmer hook set if rod is pointed at the fly too, have a fun season
@@briancook4248 thanks for the great advice Brian!
Great fun watching your adventures from a Scotsman stuck somewhere in NW SAudi Arabia. I have fished Park in August when there was water and it is quite exceptional. Keep at it Christ and keep uploading. Tight lines
Wow, NW Saudi Arabia you couldn't be further away from fishing. Don't worry plenty of fishing videos to come in a few weeks time when i am back up Scotland. Thanks for watching my videos and for the support. Chris
Saudi? I feel your fishing pain! I've been there myself!
@@CornishChrisTheFish only compensation is that I get to go scuba diving in the beautiful Red Sea, check out my latest videos on my RUclips channel
Very nice place
Thanks, even on an overcast day it was great - thanks for the support - Chris👍
Met you on the Kincardine beat. You deserved your fish. Congratulations Chris !!! See you on the bank again somewhere ! Had a nice fish in village pool late in the day 😀
Hey up Jerry!! Nice to meet you the other day! Yep, no longer a novice, now there is no excuse eh?! The video of Kincardine is on youtube at 6:30pm tonight (sunday). No doubt we'll bump into each other again on some distant river bank - all the best to you and tight lines!! Chris
@@CornishChrisTheFish keep doing the videos exactly as you are they’re perfect for people early in the journey and those later in life who can’t fish. Seeing the beats and watching your techniques develop are ideal. Keep discussing your thoughts ie what fly. Time to change the rig. Depth. Angles etc. it’s great.
Being a relative newbie too…I’d also recommend the line being kept tight. I’d also recommend more of a “step and cast” approach in order to cover as much water as possible. Two to three casts followed by a step or two downstream…and repeat. You’ll cover a greater amount of water that way. Logic is you’ll likely put the fly in front of more fish. The other thing is, tying to locate where fish lie without a ghillie is nothing other than really bloody hard! Good luck, tight lines (or taut lines at least), and I share your frustrations and drive to return to Scotland to catch fish!🙂
Hey thanks so much for taking the time to comment. great advice, I am certainly well armed with advice and instruction from my subscribers - all I need to do is try to remember it and put it into action! All the best Chris
Hi Chris,great to see you on the Dee,comments I was going to make are all ready made.With regards to returning most rivers will be closed by the end of the September leaving you the Tay and Tweed which are a bit less of a journey for you.Ta again pal for your time and effort to catch and produce your excellent videos, cheers and hopefully tightened in the near future.
Cheers Andrew.👍 Of course in planning my next adventure i discovered I don't have long until the end of the season. I am planning a return to the Dee before the season ends on 15th October and then looking at the Esk and then maybe Tweed in November. Don't think I am going to get on the Tay before they finish. Any thoughts on the Esk? Thanks again for your advice, help and support. Chris 👍😁
Yes sir i subscribe ang gave you thumbs up, good luck sir :)
Thanks for subbing!
Hi Chris, I think a fishery is a stocked or managed lake or reservoir. A river has a beat within which is a series of swims. Also, check out Cheshire Fly Fishing's salmon fishing course at Friers Cars Hotel, Dumfries.
Thanks for taking the time to comment Trevor - I will look it up - Chris
If your in Scotland all October, definitely try to get onto the River Alness.
Thanks David, i had never heard of it until now. I will look into it!.👍
@@CornishChrisTheFish Novar Fishings have most of the fishing on the river. Check out You Tube for vids of the beats, and theres some threads on the Salmon Fishing Forum where you can get more info on the Alness.
Hey there, you can certainly cast ok, try casting upstream a bit more, let the fly sink lower as it comes down river to straighten up, or use a heavier tip and fly if you wish to continue casting at that angle, mix things up a bit, up stream it and square casting and down stream casting, almost like 10am, 12pm and 1pm, You should also look into the ADAA fishing in Aberdeen and shire, that will get you loads of fishing on the lower DEE and the tidal pools as well, an ADAA ticket is only £240 a year plus a one off joining fee, very good value for money, It gets you a lot of the river don which is famous for its huge brown trout as well, the fuegh and the Dee, plus the river Ness as part of the exchange ticket program, and then there is all the trout ponds it gives you access too....tight lines.
Hi Eagle Star One, thanks so much for the great advice, I will certainly look into the ADAA as even though I live in Cornwall, it may be better value for me than paying for day tickets. thanks for the support! Chris
Chris ,love your vids , don't give up , get your self on the Tay or the upper Tweed this autumn.......and next spring try and get a day on the Tummel in March/April,book into Milton of Fonab caravan park ,opens mid March ,right on the river ,I have my van on site ,an excellent spring water ,ALAN
Hi Alan, thanks for an excellent recommendation for the caravan park, and the River Tummel, many people recommending it and definetly something I am going to look at for next year - cheers! Chris
Nice day for it. I was thinking about your missed fish just the other day. The season is running out and I havent landed anything bigger than a 5lb sea trout, and I reckon that I've missed my chance. Maybe next year for us both.
I am going back up shortly for a few more days before the end of the season #addicted 😀
Hi Chris,the South Esk has a lot of different beats to choose from,I only know Pirt beat on the North Esk and have only fished a small part of it.Both river’s run into the sea in the Montrose basin so it’s not to far up the East coast.Sorry I don’t have more info on those two and it’s about 40 years since I last fished the Border Esk at Canonbie,but a good border river that needs a good water height to fish well,anyway wishing you all the best on your next visit up North.Good Salmon fishing in Cornwall Chris but they are mostly fished with bait from what I can see on the videos I have watched, cheers pal and take care.
Thanks Andrew!
Ta for your reply,what Esk do you fancy ,South Finavon Castle,North Pert are good or border Esk but rod license needed. Join Ian SB at Cardrona just 5 miles below Peebles,back end on Tweed is rather expensive lower down the river and hard to find fishing not booked up till the end of the season,anyway good luck when you do manage to return to God’s country and get your FISH ,YEAH Chris, cheers pal.
Cheers Andrew!
Chris, having fished quite alot of the main rivers do you now think a 15' rod is the best option or perhaps something from 13' to 14' is better?
Thanks John, yes I feel as though my 15' Scandi is actually much more versatile than maybe others would think. I also have a 11' switch rod which is good for low water. This season I will be loading a skagit set up on to the switch to make it more versatile. I did think about getting a 13' as well but I think that would be a waste. Both rods are Shakespeare and for me are excellent rods - thanks for subscribing to my channel - Chris
@@CornishChrisTheFish Would you say that the Dee is your favourite river?
@@johnbrennan2636 Yes I would say the Dee is my favourite and not just because I caught there but also it's a lovely part of the world, easy to get to when staying in Banchory and some of the nicest ghillies. Castle Grant and Gordon Castle on the Spey would come a close second and third
You better move quicker and fish the pool twice, than all the extra casts over the same spot !
Thanks for the advice
This came across my feed and I have to say that I was really disappointed in this fishing video. I literally want to see fish on.
Yeah me too, I would love to be dropping videos with salmon in the net but as I say at the start of my video I am a novice salmon fisherman. When I started my channel I decided to document my experiences both good and bad, fish or no fish. I make these videos for my own enjoyment and it seems that a lot of people enjoy them as well, despite no fish in the net. Clearly, this is not the channel for you, but I don't mind, there are plenty of channels out there where you can see "fish on". I would recommend my good friend Fin, Line and Fly or Ian SB.
@@CornishChrisTheFish I respect that. I had no background on the video. Good luck in the future!
anyone who has ever fished for salmon has had many blank days, it goes with the territory but when you get one it's the best feeling, keep your chin up, carry on and ignore the negative comments but take in the advice and you'll hook into a fish one day 🤞
Thanks for the support and encouragement John!
Is that a stocked fishery Chris? Might be better off fishing for wild salmon in Devon and Cornwall for 1 /4 of the cost.
Hi Trevor, no it's wild I don't think they stock the River Dee with Salmon, but not sure tbh. I love fishing in the duchy of course and sometimes I will go over the border for a brief spell 😆 - thanks for taking the time to comment and for subscribing👍