Strange way to be broken.

[tweedsider]

Fishing Tweed recently the unexpected occurred, a fairly decent fish was hooked. Tackle was 13ft 8-9 Airflo rod , intermediate line and leader terminating via a 9ft length of 12lb bs nylon in a 15mm alu. bottle tube lines with plastic. This being armed with a big mouth double. A few yards were drawn from the reel then the fish ran back towards me, doing a reverse shuffle and winding like mad contact was regained. Now the fish must have thought well b this for a game of soldiers and set off from whence it had came. Just as the reel was singing sweetly , and the rod taking a nice curve - ping- the tube fly whistled past my ear. The odd thing was the tube had run up the 12lb nylon and over its overhand knot and was lodged above the loop to loop join between leader and trace. Anyone else had this happen a fish lost on a tube fly and the tube fly returned. Two other fish have been lost almost from the same spot, a possible snag on the riverbed? Anyway the two 3lb seatrout which followed were but poor compensating for the escape of this Leviathan of the deep, whose size grows with each telling!

Tweedsider

[G Ritchie]

I broke on a fish earlier this year while I was fishing with Jock at Kinermony. I use a grinner knot to tie on my tube hook rather than a half blood knot and the knot remained on the end of the leader stopping the tube from slipping off, so I got the tube back.

[speyghillie]

Aug 5, 2009 7:24:09 GMT G Ritchie said:

I broke on a fish earlier this year while I was fishing with Jock at Kinermony. I use a grinner knot to tie on my tube hook rather than a half blood knot and the knot remained on the end of the leader stopping the tube from slipping off, so I got the tube back.

You should have let the Ghillie tie the knot Graham...... ;D

[G Ritchie]

At least I could not blame you.