The other day I had the pleasure of a days salmon fishing on the famed Lanrick beat of the River Teith. Lanrick is just upstream of Deanston famous for its distillery. The Teith itself is a great salmon and sea trout river with the added bonus of being just 40 mins from Glasgow and …
Arthur Ransome in his great wee book “Rod and Line” published in 1929 describes north country fishing on small streams in detail “Fishing in Lilliput”. Yesterday I had a few hours fishing on a tiny trout stream in Scotland with my son. I enjoyed every bit of my afternoon apart from the midge attack! The water was good after …
A fishing associate Roger Drapper, past President of the Western Angling Club has recently got me thinking. (incidentally in 2010 I was the president of the West of Scotland Angling Club and annually the 2 clubs get together for a competition at the Lake of Menteith, the WOS normally win of course). Roger has launched …
I am the president of the West of Scotland AC for 2010, the second oldest angling club in Scotland some 175 plus years. Our outing results over this period make interesting reading trips to the Clyde and Trossachs which took 3 days from Glasgow, 200 fish caught average weight 2oz how times have changed. As the president …