Fishing UK Specialist Angler & Angling Writer, Andrew Kennedy | Pike Perch Barbel Carp Lure Coarse British angler writing about fishing and specialist angling
Autumn Salmon Fishing on the Tyne – Return of the Pretender!
I really enjoy fly fishing. I don’t do enough of it, but when I get the chance to go, it’s great fun. When it comes to using double-handed fly rods and targeting the magnificent Salmo salar, that sentence is all the more true. I’d only ever had one salmon fishing trip, which was a day and a half on the upper Tweed, almost a decade ago. I had such a great time there I’ve been wanting a follow-up session ever since. Incidentally on this trip, despite various calamities (including setting off my lifejacket inflator on a tangled cast!), I managed to land my first Atlantic Salmon, which was a very respectable 15lb in weight. The full story, which I shall one day have to tell, will inform you that despite being a complete salmon novice, I managed to land this fish alone, without a net. The angler I was fishing with had wandered a few hundred yards upstream from me and out of earshot. He had the shared net, so I had to improvise and tire the fish before beaching it and scooping it up in my arms! It was one of the proudest moments of my life! The great pretender in the …
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