Fishing The Fiddich Pool Easter Elchies River Spey

[@IanGordonsalmonfishing]

Thanks for the comment and question. I love the analogy about clever fish. Maybe you’re right, but who knows. The rod allocation on each beat were decided by the particular landowners, but generally, since the early 80s many more rods fish the river. As an example the Gordon Castle water which fishes around 40 rods would have fished with around 8 when the fishing was good. Tulchan 24 right now, would have been 8. It all changed when estates began to sell their rods. The lower numbers earlier will have been friends of the owners only.

[@johnbrown3951]

What a lovely piece of water Ian. I would prefer a wee bit more of a current through it but as you say make the most of the conditions you are presented with. My first Salmon was on a day like that on the Don. When we stopped at Sloan's in Inverurie for that special fly that we would invariably be drawn to in any tackle shop that is designed for anglers not fish and adorns our tackle boxes until the next clear out we were told to forget fishing turn back for home a get a tan. What do they know about fishing!!! Bob Patterson aye used to say keep fishing as there is usually a stupid one that will take a fly and sometimes there is, in fact do we all just catch stupid fish. I wonder what it would be like to hook a clever one, maybe they are the ones that snap us or throw the hook or escape at the net. I always enjoy your content but especially from rivers I have wet a line on but you are on beats from a different part of the river. I have a question that has always intrigued me. How is it worked out how many rods can fish a beat?