tomburras 2,721 Posted August 15, 2016 Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 After never catching a brownie looking like this I got looking at salmon Parr pics and looking at images and Id pics like this....... http://www.fishingnet.com/parr_recognition.htm All Google images all look like this I caught last week.... 2 Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted August 15, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 15, 2016 This is the fish in question.... Can anyone tell me if it's just a brownie or my over exited imagination? Cheers! Tom. 3 Quote Link to post
mackem 23,824 Posted August 16, 2016 Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 No mate,its not a brownie,its a parr. 4 Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted August 16, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 16, 2016 No mate,its not a brownie,its a parr. A salmon parr? Cheers! Tom. Quote Link to post
ROM1 131 Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Single spot on gill cover is a good indication its a salmon parr 1 Quote Link to post
MIK 4,754 Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 As already said its a salmon parr ....was out for a few hours last night at the salmon plenty about but they weren't for taking ....so changed onto the 7' #4 rod and had a craic at the finnock on the dry beautiful summers evening with the kingfisher zipping about .....managed 12 finnock some nearly up to the pound but had a crackin wee brownie . 10 Quote Link to post
ROM1 131 Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Nice trout MIK. Had a nice seatrout of Lomond on the fly 6 1/2lb. Watching the Ospreys fishing the Endrick bank 9 Quote Link to post
ROM1 131 Posted August 17, 2016 Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Osprey on nest 6 Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted August 17, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 17, 2016 Thank you very much MIK and ROM1 I'm chuffed to bits it's a salmon parr! Really happy! Would love to catch a big one one day. Nice pics by the way. Quote Link to post
DIDO.1 20,887 Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 Can you put a picture of a finnock up please Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted August 18, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 This salmon parr was caught on the U R E and incase anyone might be interested there's a fish counter at tanfield and the counter is updated weekly on their website here..... http://www.uresalmon.org.uk/ I been watching for quite a while and quite a lot of fish pass through it. 1 Quote Link to post
ROM1 131 Posted August 18, 2016 Report Share Posted August 18, 2016 Not a great photo, a small finnock or as we call them up here nebs 4 Quote Link to post
tomburras 2,721 Posted April 18, 2017 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2017 Bloody hell managed another!... The U R E is looking like it's got a good future ahead of it. 2 Quote Link to post
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