This year I have had two personal bests, a 4lb sea trout and a 6lb wild brown. This week my dad went up to the Tyne and the Tweed for two days and had two bests, firstly a 14lb salmon followed the next day by a 9lb sea trout. Has anyone else had a good year with a PB?

Jonesy

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5 of the wildest brownies from a tiny Torridan lochan in 2 casts, if I'd left the flies in the water for a few more seconds then I might have had 6.....sometimes it just doesn't get any better, none were more than five or six inches, but completely perfect in every way

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Duncan

A triple hook up! nope not had that yet.

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1st Loch Leven Brownie since 1994 (OK, I haven't actually fished there since 1994) and then another on my own tying; can't get much better than that for me

Doh! ! also had a PB grayling of 2lb on the Dee at llanderfel a couple of weeks ago, size 20 black gnat, struggled getting the leader through

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My Wife - successfully landed August 22 three years ago.

She fought really hard after a long campaign to hook her in the first place.

Lucky, I had the right tackle for the job



Ben

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I did up my brown pb to just over 10lb on a buzzer, but to be honest i consider my personal best as getting out fishing more and fishing further afield than normal. Its good for the soul to go somewhere you have read about but never thought you would fish.

fly fishing a PB river wild brownie of 3.12 and coarse fishing a PB 9.12 barbel, both off the same section of the Dove

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This year very little in the way of 'PB's;' river flows just to darned high. But in all time PB's a 28 1/2 # winter run Steelhead (Sixes River/SW Oregon) and something out of the Rogue that was so heavy it 'pinned' a 35# scale with not much more than it's head out of the water.

The first, I was a 'young fool' and kept the fish; the second .. hopefully older and wiser ... Had the fish of a life time on the end of my spey rod (a King Salmon) and he'd damned near stripped me clean of 120' of fly line and 300 yards of backing.

Guide boat fishing above me pulls into the beach and asked "Would you like a ride?" HELL YES!

Took the better part of an hour to get my line back/fish along side the boat. And the 'Instant Guide' asked me what I wanted to do with the fish?'

"Cut him loose, something that big needs to be in the Gene Pool." Other guys in the boat (his actual clients) gave me a round of applause and Hazadds; one actually slapped me on the back so hard I damned near went over-board. Two others grabbed me and kept me from taking a swim.

It was a good day forever burned into an old foggies brain. The fish did right, the Guide did right, and I think I did right. And maybe the spawn of that fish did right. I hope so.

fae

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