Spent Tuesday to Friday this week chasing salmon on the River Nith back up at Friars Carse. Set up was an Orvis Clearwater 14' 9# and a Hydros SL reel loaded with a an Orvis Hydros Spey Line with a fast sink poly leader and short tippet ending in my go to pattern for the last 3 years a gold Willie Gunn.
River was dropping back very slowly and had just a touch of colour but just right for the fly.
Riding Stone produced nothing same with the Island but Policemans came up with the goods, same set up but this time a good fish of around 13lb.
River continued to drop over the next few days with a few fish seen throughout the beat. Last couple of hours on the Island Pool before I headed for home produced a thumping take only for the fish to sit there and just keep shaking his head before finally spitting the hook, shame it appeared to be a big fish, but still there is always next time - well 10 days time actually.
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