Very enjoyable video Iain. It’s good to see sizeable sea trout making a comeback and giving a good account of itself in heavy water

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Andrew, been a few bigger ones caught off the Earn this year. Nice to see. 👍

The Sea Trout was a better fish than any of the daft big herring most people are chasing in our east coast rivers. They have been making a great comeback in recent years along the entire length of the coast and it is great to see. Had fish to 7lb 6oz in the salt in recent years (they go even harder in the sea) and seen a few much bigger. Friend of a friend had a 17lber on the fly in a small local river a few years ago, biggest Scottish east coast fish i know of.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, it was a lovely fish. Never had a sea trout in the salt. Its something I'd like to do system some point. A 17lber that's a massive fish 👍

@Dougtroutfisher.4046

10 ай бұрын

​​@@scottishoutdoorlife get yourself over to Islay in may. I moved here for the seatrout fishing, best is 78cm.

@scottishoutdoorlife

10 ай бұрын

Wow that's a big sea trout well done. I'll need to give it a look. It'd be nice for a trip away.

@ACshinealight

2 ай бұрын

@@Dougtroutfisher.4046on route lol

Good video again cracking sea trout even if been in a while haven't fished the earn in years used to fish it quite a lot back in the day had some good days on it

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Neil it's a great little river but really suffering with it back end run like all others

I'm pleased you got the Sea trout and even more pleased that you didn't go for a dip in that current- regards from NZ

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, it was pretty strong, it's the only time I'm thankful of my extra few pounds, comes in handy when wading🤣, glad you enjoyed it. 👍

Lovely sea trout, nice to see the differences in the fish explained some more…

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks glad you enjoyed it. I think they are mis identified at this time of year pretty often.

beautiful sea-trout in greeding colours, excellent catch mate 👍👍

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, yes it was a cracker, beautiful colours on him. 👍

Great bit of footage and a cracking sea trout…..what’s a CROY ? It looked pretty dangerous wading on it !

@scottishoutdoorlife

2 ай бұрын

Thanks for watching. A Croy is a row of stones out from the bank designed to direct the flow and speed up the current.

Best fish there are in my opinion, demon scrappers, id have them over salmon all day long, iv caught alot over 7lb biggest are low doubles they motor😮

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes they give you a fair fight pound for pound. Nearing double figures, that would be a dream fish. Thanks for watching 👍

Well done Iain. Excellent demonstration of sea trout identification.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching again. I never even looked at it properly until it was in the net. Just thought at that size it was a salmon. Big trout 👍

Iain that was a cracker of a Sea Trout that is one fish I miss here in Australia although we do have a run of Sea Trout in our smaller coastal rivers outside the fishing season. Tight lines with your first Salmon on the Earn.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Norman, I bet you've,sone freak fishing out there though. Would love to go one day 👍

Incredible Sea Trout mate, Great video, Well Done 👍🏻

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, it was a cracker 👍

Hi Lain, What size and type of fly were you using? I assume it was a salmon fly as you were targeting salmon. Cheers.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching, it was a size 10 partridge patriot double, the tying is one of my own. A bit of a dark cascade pattern with a red butt.

I caught a 5lb sea trout down here in Brighton a couple of years ago. Fish of a lifetime. Well done.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, 5lb is a big sea trout. I think my biggest before that one was 4lbs and I was happy with that. Was that out of a river or the sea?

@henryschwaiger6568

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife the sea. If was using a metal lure for bass. Was a very pleasant surprise.

11:00pm, fish breaks the surface and I am excitedly yelling....poor neighbors. 🤫 Nice catch though!

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Paula 👍

Always good to see a fish treated with respect even if you were disappointed with a 7lb sea trout because it wasn't a salmon. Nice to have the differences pointed out and a bit of info. Regards fly and rod line set up would have been interesting .

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching my rod set up is a 15ft Loomis NRX with a Rio Long Head Spey Floater and a 5ft Airflo slow sink tip. Can't really be disappointed with your biggest sea trout ever. I've fished the river hard all year, lost a few I just thought that was it. A great specimen it was. 👍

Very nice fish. Was fishing the earn when staying at the we log cabins.makes me want to give it another go.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

It's a great little river, didn't fish well at all this year.

I went there in the 60's. Caught a sea trout with every worm on a rolling ledger. Problem was I didnt have many worms !!! Only ever coarse fished befor then. I also learned is wasnt just whisky to keep you warm, but the use of a tamishante..lol

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

I bet the fishing was something else it the 60s, my dad fished it then. Often went to Jack's pub in Forteviot after the river. Thanks for watching 👍

Great looking fish.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Excellent video. Also demonstrates how to handle sea trout correctly.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, glad you enjoyed it 👍

Bravo ! Thank you for sharing Enjoy your fishing bro

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Your welcome, thanks so much for watching, glad you enjoy them. 👍

Nice to see you turned out on the river in a shirt an' tie!

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, I was actually working before this. 🤣👍

Cracking seatrout well done.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Toby 👍

Very good fish well done looks like a great river I must give it a go

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, it's a great little river, just so dependant on water like most. Up and down within a few days, doesn't hold it's height at all like it used to.

@aldomcgowan6561

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife same as the river i fish mate i fish the river leven its a nightmare

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

These long dry spells in the summer aren't helping anyway.

@aldomcgowan6561

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife very true

Lovely fish, must of been quite a challenge in the strong flow of the current, greetings from New Zealand just landed my first 4lber for the season 😎

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, well done on the 4lber, yes it was a challenge in that strong current. Thankfully the hook held enough to put the necessary pressure on it. 👍 I'd love to go to New Zealand at some point .

Brave man to fish a fly in that height of water ! Well done

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

It was a bit tricky right enough. Thanks for watching 👍

Just found your channel✌ what a fish🔥

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

It was a big one for the Earn anyway, thanks for watching, I hope you enjoy the rest of the videos, let me know what you think of them. 👍

Amazing fish

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks 👍

Nice fish 🎣👍

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching. It was a cracker 👍

What a fish. Deadly. What fly line you using here? I have just got a permit for the earn at forteviot for this year. Hopefully get a few sea trout 👍

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching. The fly was a Size 8 cascade if I remember correctly. That's good you've got your permit. You'll definitely get a sea trout or two. Its a great river for them, very underestimated. 👍

Well done! 👍

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Old kipper...love it😀

@scottishoutdoorlife

3 ай бұрын

It had been in a while that one. Thanks for watching 👍

@Alan-io2ew

3 ай бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife I fished the Earn in 1969,and only saw a seal.

@scottishoutdoorlife

3 ай бұрын

Thankfully not too many seals up into the main river. One every now and again into the lower reaches.

Great fish well done

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Great, a place for a sea trout, it's what I think,not a lot of people know that this fish like the flow. 👌

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, your right, a lot of people don't look for them in these faster pools but I have had so many from pools like that 👍

@patsanters2741

Жыл бұрын

Are pools in the Earn also where fish tend to have a rest before heading onwards .

What flie were you using? Also did you have a sink tip on? I've just joined the broomhill beat on the earn this year, just trying to figure it out 🙈🎣

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Gavin, I was using an orange fly I tie myself. Along the lines of a Cascade. I'm sure I had 10ft of brown fast sink tip on.

@gtchasingsilver

Жыл бұрын

@Scottish Outdoor Life perfect thank you🎣👍

Absolutely amazing fish. I am a member on the earn, what stretch is that? Looks very similar to where I'm a member of

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching. It's the Dunning Angling Club water. 👍

Fantastic to see 🎣

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching Callum, glad you enjoyed it. 👍

Beautiful stream

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

It is Jonathan thanks for watching 👍

I kinda of wonder, the two definite spots on the gill plate, has me considering if it might be a hybrid, with lowering numbers of salmon , i wonder if either precocious parr / or brown trout on the redds are doing their bit and salmon/trout hybrids might just be natures backup for seagoing stock, or its parents were a large female sea trout been watched over on the redds by smaller male salmon (or vice versa) , , maybe just the autumn colours confusing things a bit, but square tail and the two stand out gill plate spots seems to show the distinguish marks of the two in one fish . Cracking fish either way. Tight Lines for 2024 if your still throwing a line.

@scottishoutdoorlife

4 ай бұрын

Hi, thanks for watching. For me, the square tail, the extended jaw and the spots below the lateral line point towards trout. I do agree the lack of fish in the rivers opens up the opportunity of hybrids. Nature will find a way.

Good solid fish those.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Marco I was chuffed with it.

Bug!! Nicee work and a good reward. :-)

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Hello, Canadian fisherman here. Is a sea trout a sea run brown trout? We have sea run rainbow trout here that we call steelhead. I was wondering if the fact that they live in salt water is the reason for the name change.

@scottishoutdoorlife

9 ай бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, yes they are just sea run brown trout. Same idea as steelhead. Hope you enjoyed the video. 👍

Excellent action video and some great angling skills, please correct me also, but isnt one of the differences that a Sea Trout has spots below the lateral line, when a Salmon doesn't, and historically a Sea Trout is a Brown trout, that went to sea ?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and the kind comments, yes you are correct a sea trout has spot below the line when a salmon doesn't. It does become more difficult when bother are dark and in their spawning colours, for me the tail is always a giveaway, straight edged is always a trout. 👍

Nice size a good one . Ive caught a few Sea trout i yrs back now when last there in the river Earn in Perthshire and were a bar eh Silver and so much different looking than this one seen ..Fight harder than any trout ive caught in lochs i recall Also have caught Brown trout in the river Earn yrs back now. Can i ask where can a person purchase a days permit these days and prices ?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching. I wouldn't have minded a look at that one when it first came in and was silver. You can buy tickets for Crieff on Fishpal they've a lot of water. The Dunning Angling Club sells them through the local shop in Dunning I'm sure. 👍

Congratulations! Can you tell me who owns the left bank on that stretch?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi, not too sure but I do know there has been a long term syndicate on it. Thanks for watching 👍

@twanx1

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife OK thanks

Well done 👏

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

@jaggythistle112

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife mate love it 💙💯

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

O Kind words, glad your enjoying them

🔥

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Nice fish. How much is a permit there? Or is it an english landowner only shot?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Bobby it's just the local Angling Club water. It is membership only but plenty of tickets just above on the Crieff water on Fishpal. Thanks for watching. 👍

@bobbyfischer6786

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife thank you very much. Great video. Keep on keepin on

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks Bobby you too 👍

Could you do a video on your favourite salmon lure and why when you use them

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

I can Matt I'll try and organise it. Thanks for watching. 👍

@matttty7064

Жыл бұрын

Cheers

did you have official suit under the tie and fishing :D ? real fish gentleman

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, I was actually in between work appointments and nipped for a quick cast. 🤣

WELL DONE

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Hi which rod reel and line do you use?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Paul thanks for watching, I use a 15ft and 13ft Loomis NRX. Most of my videos are using my 15ft Loomis NRX and a Rio Long Head Spey Floater and a 5ft Airflo slow sink tip. I only really used shooting heads in the spring up until April.

Well done. Not easy to get sea trout that size.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, biggest one I've ever had by about 3lbs. Nice to see, we had a lot of smaller sea trout last year but fewer and bigger this year. 👍

Nice 🥃

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Cheers Mike 👍

Which beat are you fishing mate

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi David thanks for watching, that's the Dunning Angling Club beat. Do you fish the Earn?

@davidquinn7144

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife haven’t fished the earn for many years . But still my favourite river not the most productive I have fished but still have a soft spot for it. Fisherman I speak to tell me runs a pretty poor which is a shame

Must be fucking nice sir. I'm jealous

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

We're lucky where we live with so many nice rivers close to us. 😀

That's a heavy water to be wading in... lose your footing especially with a fish on, too easy to find yourself drookit and heading downstream at - riverspeed!

@scottishoutdoorlife

4 ай бұрын

Yeah it's pretty heavy going but I was only a few yards from the edge. Thanks for watching 👍

Flying c or a long bronze 4, preferred by many a sea trout

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

They certainly like a flying c that's for sure, some of them inhale it, thanks for watching

Looks more like 3

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

The second one was, the first definitely 7lb, weighed in the net. Thanks for watching

ive caught several sea trout in Louisiana around 6 1/2 pound but never broke 7.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, 6 and a half pounds is a big fish, this was my biggest by a long way, I think my previous biggest was only around four. I didn't know you got sea trout in Louisiana, what types of Salmon do you get there and are there any steelhead?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Brilliant thanks, that would be interesting, email sent. 👍

@fancypelusa2863

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife I think he was talking about "speckled trout", a saltwater species.

Are you wearing a shirt and tie?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi Dan yes I was, just nipped down for a couple of hours in between appointments 🤣🤣

@Dan_074

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife thats dedication mate.

Are you wearing a tie??

@joemurphy1626

Жыл бұрын

Fishing is serious business 🤣

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, yes I was wearing a tie, I was in between work appointments and managed down for a couple of hours, take it when you can get it 😀

what beats that mate

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, it's the Dunning Angling Club water on the River Earn. 👍

Personally I do t delay my fish that long, they get stressed and I think it’s a bit unfair, if your not going to kill it, straight back is better I feel. Good fish though.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, I respect your opinion. I have known lots of Salmon caught and tethered for a long time(hours on occassion) sent to the hatchery as brood stock and survive for years after to spawn each year. I don't think it harms them certainly not when they're in the water. I hope your enjoying the channel?

Brilliant.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

superb fish skilfully done. hope you wear a life vest looks dangerous

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, I don't wear a life vest. Grew up without wearing one and tend not to use one unless I have to. Can't seem to get used to them.

They are delicioius to eat. Why catch them, just to let them free?

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Hi thanks for watching, in the Tay District which includes the River Earn all sea trout need to be returned to preserve the stocks, that's the rules in place at the moment. 👍

You make that single spey look way too easy....took me so long to learn that cast and I still suck at it 50% of the time.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Over my right arm is still far better for me. Its just practice and thankfully I get plenty of it. Keep at it and it'll happen 90% of the time 👍

@rushthezeppelin

Жыл бұрын

@@scottishoutdoorlife wait was that your non dominant? Dang bro, my non dominant casts are just a joke whether air or water borne. Yeah can't wait till I get my 3wt trout spey fixed up which is what I normally have a scandi line on (I broke the dang thing at the cork when I slipped in the river a few months back). Right now just chucking big stuff on the 4wt with a skagit.

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Yes it was, it could still be improved though. Thanks for the kind comments and I hope you get your rod fixed soon, an you enjoy the rest of the video's 👍

Siri……show me Heaven please

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍

Hard to unterstand the solang.. what a pitty

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, you should be able to put subtitles on for translation. 👍

Big its schooly sewin

@scottishoutdoorlife

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching 👍