Another first on the pin for me

[Tigger]

I had a trip north to cumbria chasing the ladies with two of my pals today and it would be our last trip there this year due to the salmon and trout season kicking off next week which puts a stop the coarse fishing till the next closed season for the gamefish. All three of us where enjoying our grayling fishing in such lovely surroundings.

Anyway, I was trotting my float down the river when it dipped under as it had done many times earlier that morning when I had struck into a grayling or sometimes a trout. This fish was very powerfull and shot of at high speed causing me to follow down the river as I hadn't a great deal of line on the spool. After five or more minutes I managed to see the fish in the margins and for me it was a first - a Salmon ! I know it's the closed season but no one had told the Salmon that it shouldn't take my bunch of maggots. It took approximatly another ten minutes to land, then, after several quick photo's off it went - no worse for it's capture.

 

 

 

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[viney]

Well done! a fairly sizeable fish by the look of it! Bit of pot luck there!?

[Rusty]

Well done Ian, glad you got one. I bet that was a bit of a shock when you lifted into it.

 

I'm not going to begrudge you that particularly after earlier in the year when its chums kept leaping about whilst I was precariously balanced mid river, nearly had me in they did.

 

BTW.....I recognise that swim

[Tigger]

Well done Ian, glad you got one. I bet that was a bit of a shock when you lifted into it.

 

I'm not going to begrudge you that particularly after earlier in the year when its chums kept leaping about whilst I was precariously balanced mid river, nearly had me in they did.

 

BTW.....I recognise that swim

 

 

 

Yeah it was a shock Chris but I did enjoy it I thought you'd recognise the swim it's a good un that's for sure. The river was icy cold and the air temp was only just above freezing so I left the wading to my m8's. If your missing it Chris we can always have a repeat trip next season.

 

 

 

Viney the fish was 8 1/2lb exact and your right it was pot luck but then again it may have been down to skill .

[Vagabond]

Nice one Tigger

[Dick Dastardly]

I kove fish like that mate really adds that little bonus to a day.

[Rusty]

If your missing it Chris we can always have a repeat trip next season.

 

We will but first I need to repay your hospitality with a trip down here, my circumstances are making it difficult right now but they will be resolved soon.

 

Oh and you weren't lucky...you did everything right to catch a salmon.

[George387]

well in Ian they certainly give you a good pull thats for sure, I sometimes come across them on the annan when grayling fishing and they do test the tackle well done mate

[watatoad]

Well done, you, keep it up.

[far bank stalker]

I had a trip north to cumbria chasing the ladies with two of my pals today and it would be our last trip there this year due to the salmon and trout season kicking off next week which puts a stop the coarse fishing till the next closed season for the gamefish. All three of us where enjoying our grayling fishing in such lovely surroundings.

Anyway, I was trotting my float down the river when it dipped under as it had done many times earlier that morning when I had struck into a grayling or sometimes a trout. This fish was very powerfull and shot of at high speed causing me to follow down the river as I hadn't a great deal of line on the spool. After five or more minutes I managed to see the fish in the margins and for me it was a first - a Salmon ! I know it's the closed season but no one had told the Salmon that it shouldn't take my bunch of maggots. It took approximatly another ten minutes to land, then, after several quick photo's off it went - no worse for it's capture.

 

 

 

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lovely pictures. It's hard to know what to stare at most, the fish or your rig. both seem equally beautiful.