Got this one last night at Shanes Castle, River Maine, County Antrim, on one of Easkys home tied Cascade variants.

About 4lb, fresh as paint. Unfortunately, resuscitation didnt work, and it went belly up.

Going to be the main dish at my Dads 64th birthday tonight.

BTW, this is my first salmon in two years.....

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Well done Ryan mate. Beautiful wee fish. Give my regards to Hugh on his birthday.

Bill

congrats, you deserved a fish after 2years and really nice fish, fresh as a daisy all down to the expertly tied fly mind you

.... it certainly wasn't going to get away from the way you were holding on to its tail

Unfortunately from Mrs rrw I fear this catch may provoke an investment in new salmon fishing tackle - Angling Shops look out

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Thats actually my Dads outfit. 11ft Guideline lpxe 8/9 rod, Airflo balance reel (its actually pretty good) and pirates wf 8 line. Nice outfit.

Yeah, its down to "Quality flies, from people who care".

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Well done Ryan a nice wee grilse ,I heard reports of large numbers of salmon being caught at Portna (Kilrea) on the Bann on Sunday evening .

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Was speaking to a guy in Braddells, who said he saw hundreds of fresh fish at the gates at Portna on Saturday. They were banging off the gates, until the rivers agency guy lowered the gate and let them through.

That must be the run making its way up. Stevie, Alan and myself have all hooked fish this week.

Combined with the high water the fish are able to get up this year.

Someone should take some dynamite to the weir at Carnroe, its a joke that the fish are held back there...it does have a fish pass though..

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Aye the CANAL

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Brilliant fish Ryan, well done... 2 years of hard yakka the best you could do is smile in the pick mate! Still to get off the mark down here on the wier,
was going to say I have the Airflo Balance for my pike outfit, I've got quite attached to it. And ofcourse well tied easky as always give up the office job for the the fly business.

I could see him in a Kenyan sweatshop, banging the flies out.

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and you thought I tied that fly Ryan

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