7th April Crathes Castle in rising snow melt

[Billy Graham]

Managed to land my first of the season on the River Dee at Crathes Castle, was full of optimism when I arrived and the gauge was at 2ft but the river Feugh was rising with snow melt and by lunch time the water was up at 3ft in the boat pool, fishing with the nasty stuff skagit and 15ft of T-17 sink tip and a simple black & yellow hair wing aluminium 1" tube at 4:30pm and probably 3 more steps & casts left before I gave up when thump thump fish on in the tail of the pool.

Crathes Castle 7th April 2018 - YouTube

 

[New Era]

Well done , looks a very likely Lie in front/alongside of that downstream boil , or as now an underwater croy ?

 

[westie4566]

Cracking - well worth the perseverance!

Well done.

 

[Lamson v10]

Cracking wee fish billy well done :thumb:

 

[lostangler]

Splendid

 

[Saint Andrews]

Well done and thanks for posting, not enough stuff like this is posted so keep it coming. Thanks

 

[superfly127]

Lovely fish well done

 

[Purple paws]

Managed to land my first of the season on the River Dee at Crathes Castle, was full of optimism when I arrived and the gauge was at 2ft but the river Feugh was rising with snow melt and by lunch time the water was up at 3ft in the boat pool, fishing with the nasty stuff skagit and 15ft of T-17 sink tip and a simple black & yellow hair wing aluminium 1" tube at 4:30pm and probably 3 more steps & casts left before I gave up when thump thump fish on in the tail of the pool.

Crathes Castle 7th April 2018 - YouTube

Perfect ending to a day's fishing