A lively Atlantic salmon on the Royal Dee, Scotland

cb · Jan 23, 2010

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What a wonderful salmon river the Dee is for fly fishing. This video was taken on the Lummels pool one of the finest pools on the river. This fish was spectacular! Bill had joined me for a couple of days and of course showed us how it should be done!

What sport!

Colin.

dmwphoto · Jan 23, 2010

great video, thanks

mcnerney · Jan 23, 2010

Colin

Thanks for posting, that was great. It looked like Bill was using a Sprey rod, any idea what size?

Larry

cb · Jan 23, 2010

mcnerney said:
It looked like Bill was using a Sprey rod, any idea what size?

Certainly do - it was my outfit he was using. The rod is a 15ft 1in Sage #10 (10151-4 European). Hardy Ultralite reel holding a Trevor Morgan floating Spey line #11 with 51ft head. 10ft fast-sinking polyleader with 4-5ft 13lb Fluoro tippet (Frog hair) with size 12 Cascade Double fly.

15ft #10 rods are the standard outfits in the UK for salmon on the classic largish rivers like the Dee/Spey/Tay/Tweed.

My current favourite rod is the Hardy Demon #10, though I have had many happy days with my Sage rod in the past.

Regards

Colin

Frank Whiton · Jan 23, 2010

Colin, I can't believe you are picking on those poor fish with that great big rod.:thumbsup: I could have used that outfit on the Kenai in Alaska.

Frank

cb · Jan 23, 2010

Frank Whiton said:
Colin, I can't believe you are picking on those poor fish with that great big rod

Frank, The last two fish I’ve had from the lummels pool were 17lb and 16lb I needed the rod! My arm was aching by the end!

Pics and story here:

Dee Diaries: Saturday 18th July, 2009 - Fly Fishing Forums

arfishinbear · Jan 24, 2010

Great trip, thanks for shareing
Bear

Guest1 · Jan 24, 2010

I started spey casting just this last spring. I love it. I have a 15' 8/9 wt. Meiser with a 9/10 Airflo Delta Spey line that has a 56 1/2' head. You can whip a pretty good fish into submission with these kind of rods. Here is a video of doing just that.
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moe b · Feb 28, 2010

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Wow these are some cool videos!

Big fish too

. Congrats.

Moe

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