Weekly Report 27th May
Last week’s weather conditions saw days of snow, heavy rain, gale force winds and a day of glorious
sunshine. Temperatures dropped on Tuesday and the upper hills on the Lecht received an
unexpected layer of fresh snow. By Saturday the sun shone bright in a cloudless sky and
temperatures
res rose to a giddy height of 20c.
20 The river was falling away nicely and running with a tinge
of colour till Thursday, when a lift in levels caused the Don to colour up on the Friday and into
Saturday.
Reports of fish landed have again been slow to come in but it appears that beats from Monymusk
upstream to Alford have enjoyed the best of the sport with anglers fishing
fishing at Castle Forbes and
Breda landing some nice fresh Salmon up to 18lbs. The water conditions clear more quickly after a
rise and in a few hours’ rods can be on fishing again. The lower river beats suffered from coloured
water and debris later in the week and lost a couple of day’s fishing.
Only the odd Sea Trout has been landed on the lower beats at Grandhome and Cruives. With the
evenings still being chilly not many rods have been out targeting them yet.
Brown Trout anglers are reporting seeing a good
goo variety of flies hatching out but many days the
bigger trout seem disinterested and fail to rise to them. I did hear however from an experienced
angler who while fishing Kintore stretch report seeing as many decent sized trout feeding on the
surface for over an hour as he has in many a year. These unpredictable feeding patterns can make
the Don a very frustrating Trout
rout river but perseverance pays off for many anglers as some specimen
Trout up to 5lbs have been landed in the past week. Plenty of small Trout up to 8inches are being
landed on dries and wets.
The Smolt
molt run is well underway with anglers fishing down at Parkhill being constantly pestered with
them taking their flies.. Many rods stopped fishing so as not to damage any more. Hopefully a good
number
umber will make it out to sea and then onto the feeding grounds.
Any reports of catches or photos are greatly appreciated. Send to [email protected]
Martin Webster.
Charlie Robertson with a 13lb Salmon caught during May