Fishing Loch Doon with Davie McPhail

[@Fischer67]

What a wonderful landscape. Good to see you there Davie. Thank you very much for sharing this.

[@paulblackwildfishing8686]

Great to see you out fishing so much Davie. Especially the places i love to fish myself. Its a beautiful part of the world that. Great stuff and keep them coming👍

[@paulbridgers3820]

Amazing looking place. Thanks for sharing.

[@kpike5310]

Wonderful scenery in any weather condition. Your first perch in Loch Doon was a nice surprise. Thank you Davie; a history lesson to add even more interest to your fly fishing lesson. Really great to see you tie the flies, then fish them.

[@jongibson9657]

Watched the video last week having never fly fished at Loch doon and only catching perch so after watching this decided to have a shot and managed to catch my first brown trout out it caught 2 missed 6

[@markburnett2890]

Great stuff Davie, I always enjoy your videos. Reminds me of growing up in Wales and fishing the many reservoirs around my area. They were very similar in appearance with the exception of a dam wall at the end. Love your fly tying and have copied many of your patterns (not to your standards of course) but I have lived in New Zealand for the last 30 years and in some of our rivers a tiddler would run to 2 or 3 pounds. Keep up the great work!

[@michaelshaw8370]

Back in the late eighties I was at Albemarle Barracks near Newcastle at one point we had highlanders as RSM also one as Provost. The recruits were both Scots Div And Kings Div. When talking about fishing I was asked. What waters I had fished in Scotland? And which ones were my favourites. I later told them that both the RSM & Provost had the same favourite water. They searched all the ordinance survey maps and none of them ever found it. Loch Kimup. Both of them were in a on the joke. If asked they would reply. “Lock Him up!” For about half an hour lol

[@graemebrown1191]

Really enjoyed that Davie✌. What a mighty looking lough.

[@davidquinn7144]

Love this method of fishing it’s how I was brought up fishing. Step and cast covering plenty water . It’s my vision of heaven .let’s hope it’s true .

[@wildfisher]

Great stuff Davie, what a lovely place! The water seems quite low, I had not realised it was used for hydro power.

[@dwbrady5795]

Beautiful scenery and a nice perch. I noticed some good stone formations a long the bank.

[@ChillinLikeAVillain1210]

Lol was just watching one of your old videos of the river Doon there then seen this in my recently uploaded list right after. Jammin..cheers Davie. I'll stick coffee on then for this one 😊☕🎣

[@tomcrowley9269]

beautiful country you have there.

[@50Squirrel]

Another great video! Nice to see that you are like the rest of us… fishing is fishing! Nice perch!👏👏👏

[@articgrayling1300]

Super nice place to fish, that perch looks a lot like our yellow perch here in Canada just more dark silver.

[@archieblair9625]

good show davie fished loch doon a few times always fish the river mouth as you fished always get fish their keep them coming

[@bobbell5265]

What a treat Davie.....love bank fishing lochs 👍

[@keithcorodimas8093]

Beautiful scenery. Thanks for sharing.

[@jamesdonovan1443]

Ah well... As my father always tells me! A bad days fishing beats a good day at work 👍

[@greummac]

As much as it makes me home sick, I have enjoyed watching your fishing videos. It’s been too long since I’ve fished a loch, probably the lochs above Kilmelford. Re fishing in windy conditions, something of which I have great experience living and fishing in the highlands of Tasmania, the advice I give any fly fisher once they have become a competent caster is to learn to cast with the other arm. It doubles your fly fishing capability and helps with wind coming from the wrong direction or dealing with a pesky tree behind you. I wrecked my shoulder a couple of years ago. I had a choice of no fishing for several months, the trout season had only just opened, or learn to cast left-handed. Within weeks I was back catching fish. I may not have the distance of my right arm, but I have the accuracy and I catch most of my fish at 10-15 m.

[@thenine3171]

Great scenery a little fishing an a quick history lesson good stuff

[@bumptybump]

Better luck next time, Davie. It can be dour but as you said, the trout come into Carrick Lane for spawning at this time of the year and we've had some good ones not far from that bridge in the past. It is a bit worrying with the loch so low that some trout may not get over the falls.

[@christopherkarpacz2119]

Really enjoyed that Davie, loch Doon is a braw loch 👍🎣

[@user-em1fb6xb2u]

Благодарю, Дэви! Очень красиво!👍🤝🇰🇿

[@Rab-up8xm]

Loving these videos davie takes me about 3 days to watch 1 right enough 🤣

[@martynshearer7283]

thanks. loved that! made my day amd calmed my turbulent mind. perfect

[@harleyjune1233]

late in season - even on banks, i tend to go deeper with weights when getting colder... but i love the fishing videos and tied both those this week - 1 row each :)

[@richardtorr4553]

A really lovely place, those perch and trout are just like jewels, never seen trout look so good. Have you caught any pike on loch Doon?

[@romanmathez9259]

beautyful nature .... 🙏🏻🙏🏻🖤🖤

[@johntwaddle8801]

Didn’t know whether to sit and tie a couple of your veyatie blacks or have a go at our local loch but after watching your latest video have decided to do both cheers Davie here’s hoping.

[@HalfInsaneOutdoorGuy]

fishing barbless in a lake is ROUGH!

[@comesahorseman]

Thanks a lot, Davie! 😄 And yes, perch are very fine eating! 👍

[@krallmi48]

Thanks for taking me fishing, Davie... =] Mike

[@michaelmckenna14]

Was looking into fishing loch doon last year but loads of people said its no worth fishing. Clearly they are wrong, jusr because they arent 5lb rainbows doesnt mean its no worth it. Great video mate.

[@davidquinn7144]

My old pal used to say if there no coming up am no going down lol

[@robertandersson331]

thanks for sharing

[@scottdavidson359]

Great filming again Davie, really appreciate your efforts. Many years ago I would walk along the Doon from Dalrymple to Patna, cracking piece of water. Unfortunately never made it up to loch Doon, what a spectacular and peaceful place. Do Salmon run up into the loch ? Cheers

[@herveledeme6155]

Magnlflque !🇫🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@Chazie_]

Never heard of anyone eating perch …learn something new every day

[@NeObliviscaris3663]

Keep yer wits about yi on they brash mats mate, I do a bit of mounding down that way and there's 6 foot drainage tracks in-between the stumps, not always easy tay spot

[@Strutsi]

An absolutely beautiful place. Makes me want to visit Scotland. Is it hard to find a good spot on a loch? We have a billion lakes in Finland too, but I haven't found good places for fly lakefishing yet.

[@markfritch3168]

Just curious….do you ever use a float tube? Pretty country for sure. Thanks for taking us along. I have never been to Scotland, and being older and financially limited probably won’t get the chance. So much enjoy your videos of all types. All the best

[@mikerenshaw7867]

They're shy those wild brown trout!

[@neilandrew961]

Great again davie do you not get any salmon in the loch from the river doon

[@davidmathieson4280]

got to garples around 10 am big wind from dam straight down loch nw at least 15 mph but you were up lanes seemed ah differened day davie

[@oldsmugglerflyfishing]

Lovely!

[@dominiqueleblanc2193]

So much relaxing. Do you fish the coast sometimes? Would love to see that!

[@DavieMcPhail]

Hi Dominique, I did a lot in the 80s and into the mid 90s for seatrout and mullet but unfortunately our seatrout have almost disappeared so I've not did it since though I would love to try for the mullet again, maybe next year..I'm glad you enjoyed the video.. All the very best Davie

[@mauricejohnston8454]

black pennel and soldier plamer been good for me on the Doon...do you have a preferred leader material??. I'm still stuck on sub surface

[@Labeilofest]

Davie, why do they have the rocks lined u like that? Is it man made or natural ?

[@DavieMcPhail]

Hi Jay, The rocks that are lying in a row are man made as these are the old stone wall/dykes which you will see all over Scotland and in many parts of the UK..These ones are from the time before the loch was dammed for the hydro electric system.. All the very best Davie

[@kerrypitt9789]

Davie are you allowed to fish after sundown? Or even very close to sundown? Over here on Alberta lakes where they have Browns, some of the largest fish come to large streamers fished in the dark. Here we have Grizzly Bears but we make noise and have not had any issues. It is kind of worth it because big Browns tend to hunt in the dark, all you need is a streamer that moves water. Great show on this Loch Davie, it was enjoyable.

[@DavieMcPhail]

Hi Kerry, I would agree fishing until it's dark and even in the dark can be the best time to catch the larger fish as I used to do this a lot on this loch, when I was a boy I would do this all through the summer when school was out...I will make a point in fishing next year on Loch Doon as it would make a great video...There's no bears or wolfs anymore here in Scotland only midges which are only a couple of millimetres and swarm in millions when there's no wind and if you don't have something to stop them bitting then they would drive you mad so I would rather have wolfs and bears...I'm glad you enjoyed it.. All the very best Davie

[@kerrypitt9789]

@@DavieMcPhail yeah I always fish with a slower friend! Nudges do not play favorites. When I first started fly fishing, the "Mosquito,* was a favored pattern. I never understood who the heck would fish during a mosquito hatch!!

[@JohnGradwell-is7lm]

Fished shallow bay near the Castle catching a perch a chuck on feeder while guys thrashing the water with spinners caught nothing.

[@davidmathieson4280]

was at garples today stone goat and peter ross 8 over 10 inch gid day

[@stewartthefishwhisperer]

I really love this place it’s a shame I can’t get to fish it anymore

[@EricDalton1910]

Hope you didny get bothered with the midgies. “Way teeth like piranhas, they’ll drive ye bananas.”

[@aSgiandubh]

Fleas or midgees , it’s all the same to me

[@2msvalkyrie529]

Can't understand half of what he says.