Booked a day of fishing in Scotland while on vacation to the River tweed, a river known for housing large brown trout, grayling and salmon. I’m primarily a salt water angler so the realm of trout fishing is pretty foreign to me, but I ended up hooking into this fish on a 2wt sage ESN and he screamed down river probably 40 yards. He jumped and flipped a few times using the current to try and break free, I just played him as best as I could putting the rod parallel to the bank and letting him exhaust himself. After about 10-15 minutes, we netted him and got a few photos. Came out to 6lbs 1oz and 23in, and was caught on a size 14 nymph.
We fished the rest of the day and I broke off on another fish about this size trying to strip set like it was a saltwater fish and got some sips on dry flies during the hatch later in the afternoon. Highly recommend Alba Sport fishing as a guide service if your ever in the area, I learned so much about targeting fish and how to read rivers from my guide and he let me fish a variety of different setups (dry fly, dry dropper, euronnymph etc.) I feel lucky to have landed such a beautiful fish my first time fishing for them, I know I might never see one like that again as native browns aren’t indigenous to the US, but I’ll be making a few more trips here to make the best of the opportunity.
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