He’s had his sights on a fly-caught river ‘thirty’ this winter and had come close on a recent trip with a 122cm fish that fell just short of the mark. Whilst this specimen was slightly shorter at 118cm, it’d clearly been hard on the feed! Robbie has had success on musky-style flies, with this falling to a large jack pike imitation cast on an 11wt saltwater rod.

On this session, he’d landed a low double before being slack lined a few hundred yards further downriver. Rapidly stripping line to regain contact, Robbie set the hook into a fish that was almost under the boat. It made a few powerful runs before battling under the boat. Robbie’s heavy rod did the trick though, and he eventually had the huge fish resting in the net.

Well done Robbie!