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Post by buckfastvalley on Jan 20, 2008 22:03:39 GMT
river hope or the upper polla?
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Post by Roobarb on Jan 20, 2008 22:10:54 GMT
Graham has it, the Halladale a couple of miles below Forsinard.
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 20, 2008 22:15:09 GMT
Looks like the Forsinain Lodge beat, I used to fish the Craigie beat just below.
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Post by Roobarb on Jan 20, 2008 22:18:18 GMT
It is the Craggie beat from the left bank below the road bridge!
Any pointers on where to find the fish other than in the Craggie pool itself towards the lower end of the beat?
Andy
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 20, 2008 22:28:52 GMT
The Craggie beat starts at the bridge that takes you over to Forsinain farm and goes downstream for about 2 miles double bank to about 100 yards upstream of where the River dy ke runs in. It is the only place where I have managed to land salmon on a dry fly (lost one on the Dee a couple of seasons ago though). The Craggie Pool is the most productive. There are a couple of nice man made pools just below there which are well worth a cast. The pool above the road bridge where the electrical pylons cross is very good, had a couple out of there one morning, the first of a dibbled fly and another just after of a conventionally fished fly. The pool immediately below the road bridge is also good for a fish, they lie right along side the boulder in the middle of the stream, I can still picture one rising up through the water to take my dry fly there.
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Post by Roobarb on Jan 20, 2008 22:37:18 GMT
I've fished it every year since 2002 in April/May and the only fish I've seen have been in the Craggie pool. I've had a few out of the lower beats though. The pool on the Craggie beat with the electric pylons isn't my idea of fun, just too much static crackling around for comfort with a carbon rod.
If there is enough water I shall try the pools you mention though, one day it will come right...
Two years ago I was sent up to the Lodge beat to find a springer (I failed), I can't get over how small it is up there and yet it still holds spring fish.
Andy
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Post by G Ritchie on Jan 20, 2008 22:51:22 GMT
A surprisingly productive river, it needs water though, especially that far upstream. Used to fish it in the early 1990's with my father. Always went with trout fishing in mind, because the river was often too low and just tried the river when there had been enough rain to be worthwhile fishing. When it is low, it is just a trickle of water between the stones with any fish present trapped in the few deep pools in the gorge. The trout fishing is excellent though if the river is out of condition. Have fished it in May, three consecutive years in July and once in September. July was the most successful, usually there was grilse there if you got the water and if it was dry, then you had the mayfly on the hill lochs.
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