Fly Fishing the Borders for Wild Brown Trout (The Big Fish) with Tony Donnelly

The Big Fish WTV are Fly Fishing the River Annan in the Scottish Borders with Tony Donnelly and Pat Grey for stunning Wild Border Brown Trout. The River Annan is low and Bright sunshine is going to make this a challenging stalk. Tony offers some great advice about casting techniques and some stunning wild brown trout end up in the net. For more information about fly fishing the River Annan check out Fish Pal.

[cColin]

Excellent film. Great production values. Sound advice about tackle and approach, plus some nice catch footage. Well done!

[Sportmanfun]

Very good casting. With the fly dropping almost 90° right from the end of the flyline!
These are like techniques you develope over a time yourselve because where all have that hunter blood still in us I guess.
Looking back how eager I wanted to know everything about flyfishing. But even the store owner didn't anything how to cast. Wich wat flies. Story short back in the 80's here in NL I learned casting from short paragraphes in old rare little booklets.Didnt know any other flyfisher. In the late 90's suddenly there where tying clubs and flyfishing was booming buisyness here. And now there arent groups of old men shouting jokes like "Did you catch salmon already" and more of the simple minded dutch thinkers.
Glad that once I put my teeth in something I like, I will succeed at last. And fished a lot in Norway and other countries.But NO is my favorite. Such beauty. Like coming home the first time I said after half an hour driving in No after leaving the Stena line.
Flyfishing is so much more than just fishing.Nothing poetic or dreamy but very special.

[colynbarrett]

Well done to you lad's, a great example of casting, and catching. Tight Lines too you both.

[jaytaylor]

Very enjoyable video. Thanks lads. Can't wait to fish the Annan next year.

[chrisowenuk]

Excellent video lots of good tips thank you

[coursefish]

Great video and just great to see Tony. Gone too young.

[johnlittle]

Some good tips there thanks great video to,

[kenmartin]

The Lads look around as they were on the sly fishing those waters...

[CraigMounsey]

Just stumbled across this. Greetings from the antipodes. Nicely paced video. What time of year was this, trees seem bare?

[paramidge]

Re: the double haul - maybe it was windy at the surface - and he needed it for turnover? Always hard to properly judge conditions from a video. Some nice fishing footage- particularly when the slow mo was well applied and not gratuitous. Drones, 'trendy' titles etc. just a bit of 'I can therefore I do' really and they detract from the flow of the work. Music - well again a matter of taste. Nevertheless thanks for putting this out there.

[crob]

What's the name of that brown jumper you've got on ??

[paulbryson]

Do you really need to do a double hall cast for a river.

[jafiraultza]

nice video!
what part of the Anna is?

[clydebuilt]

I hope you howked that plastic bag out. Nice video.

[adriannelson]

Why is it that so many of these fishing videos insist on playing awful music throughout?! There’s no need for it - just rely on the natural sounds of the river plus some commentary, otherwise it’s unwatchable!