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Community => Coffee Lounge => Topic started by: kevkev57 on November 20, 2009, 08:08:18 pm
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Hi everyone,
For a Christmas present I wanted to offer one of my sons a fishing week in Scotland. I am looking at B&B/hotel or something similar for both of us , and I will need to sort out someone local that knows the right spot and can assist us,as we are newbies. I would prefer to find someone here at TAS. Then I can meet some of you.
Any ideas ? If any of you can offer a package for us, please email me at [email protected]
Many thanks Kevin
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Loads of fishing here in Clackmannanshire!! My son in law came here fishing but did not get too much, some fish on the Forth but there are many other places, Gartmorn Dam, and loads of other places!!
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Great idea! But that's a pretty open ended question! Firstly what sort of place do you want to fish? (Sea / coast / lochs / rivers?) What kind of fish do you want to catch (trout / salmon / coarse / seafish), and how do you want to catch them? (worm / spinner / fly / dynamite ;D).
If you know the answers to the questions above, I'm sure I can recommend somewhere good to go. Equally if you can't yet answer the questions above, that is quite informative in itself, and might give some pointers too!!
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Womble........................we want salmon and plenty of it. Dont care where it is, in a loch, in a lake ,or under your bed but we want SALMON...
Let me know where it is !
Kevin
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You'll be lucky. We keep that treasure for ourselves (http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Winks/big-wink.gif)
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Only joking! I think it can be pretty expensive to fish salmon though.
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You "sometimes" get Salmon in the Forth but Brown Trout is just as good, lot's of that up here BUT a friend told us it has been in short suply this year..look on the link on my wesite www.tower-house.co.uk
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buy a big tin from the shop and rent a DVD of salmon fishing ......much warmer , dryer and cheaper.... ::) ::) ::)
cheers
Russ
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http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/culture/fishing/#2 (http://www.clacksweb.org.uk/culture/fishing/#2)
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My mate at work rates the Tay for Salmon. He also goes up to Ballater.
He also agreed that this season so far has been disappointing.
I live on the Isla with is very beautiful and cheap to buy a fishing permit for but the tree canopy around here is overgrown and an inconvenience for casting. Would be happy to offer a cup of tea if you ended up this way though - might manage a piece of cake too!!!!!!!!!
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Russ, we share many things in common, age, same locations same time ( southall ) but the thought of a tin of fish and a DVD is not for me. Keep on like that and I am going to drive up to your patch of wales and put something up you kilt or whatever you wear there...
AND I will try and find some of those folk that broke your panes of glass and drive them to your place....so there ;D
Kevin
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Oh errrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr(http://smileys.on-my-web.com/repository/Battle/axe.gif)
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Why not try The Fairy Lochs if you want a bit of trout fishing. Beautiful scenery and one of the lochs is a desigated war grave, a bit emotional when you go there but well worth seeing. You can stay at the Sheildaigh Hotel or rent one of the cottages. we took Keepers Cottage and although very basic you can walk out from there to the lochs and once you are up in the hills it is only a short walk between lochs. my husband and I spent a couple of days up there 2 years ago and it was amazing! Will try and post links! Also the Badachro Inn is amazing for food and a drink. http://www.nafirchlis.co.uk/fairy.htmhttp://www.shieldaiglodge.com/english/shieldaig_cottages.html
http://www.badachroinn.com/
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ANYWAY Russ, Belgium now rules the Eu , its official , so you WILL obey......( Kevin, now heading for a remote spot off the radar of russ )
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Love it Sandy ! :yum:
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We all have this image of each other...we may be disopointed if we do meet up!! My youngest did performing arts and media nad spent some time as a presenter on a local radio station....she is attractive and a very bubbly girls BUT...some of the other presenters..male ones..were a cross between Alan Partridge and the most dullest, boaring...old fashioned lad that was in your class at School!!!
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My osn in law wants to shoot around here and that seems to be hard enough...fishing is easier, wherever we go with the dogs there are loads of fishermen and women.....how nice to sit with a packed lunch, a few beers or for me (whiskey) and stunny views + a nice tea to look forward to.....
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lol... well I can't stand fish tinned or fresh ( although I do like tinned pilchards in tomato sauce , with toast :o) , but I didn't say I eat the crap !!!
Talking of kilts, do you know why Scotsmen wear kilts ? so the sheep don't hear the zip undoooo... but us locals in Wales, have these strange things we tend to wear... they are called trousers.... not really into gender bending and the wearing of skirts myself !!!! but hey ho, what ever turns you on !!
Who broke my glass ? which glass when ..? Bring anyone round here mate .. just watch out for the fuzzy wuzzies.....they don't like it up'em they don't , they don't like it up'em !!! You have been warned.... :o ;D ;D
cheers
Russ
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Russ? are you a true Welsh man? Kev? where are you from?
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There you are then, stay in Sandy & Steve's B & B, and 6 lochs to fish for brown and rainbow trout, and salmon in the Devon. (I have to warn you it's nickname is The Black Devon, although I haven't yet ascertained why! ::) ::)
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Or,,,,,you could take a trip to Glen Clova in Angus and stay in the Glen Clova Hotel, fish for salmon, go deer stalking and shoot some pheasants!! Might be expensive though, the foods really good and they have a great bar!!!!
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no Sandy , not from Wales originally. My parents were from Stonebridge and Acton in London , and as my dad was in the army I was born in Catterick army hospital . But I then spent the next few years between Yorkshire , Chelsea and Germany , till I was 5 then lived the next 15 years in Ruislip (near Southall ) , right next to Northolt airport ( which is where they bought Diana PoW's body back to England , when she died.) My house was about 400 yards from where the plane stopped round the back of the airport . Northolt airport was one of my playgrounds as a kid . I used to climb over the fence and play in the old airplanes they had there , and in the old WW2 tower that was still there then , looks to have gone now though . I used to get arrested regularly by the RAF police and taken into the guard room where they would give me tea and biscuits...the reason I got on ok with them was during the war my granddad was a guard there . He was already in his mid 60's ish then , and he was known as pop Russell . They still had pictures up on the wall of him, in the guard room and in other places around the camp . Funny that he should work there in the war while he was living in Acton , and that the estate where I was to grow up was still fields !!
I came to Wales though when I was 20 in 1977 . Mum and Dad moved here with all the kids , 7 of us , but I was only going to stay till they had settled in , and then go back to Rayner's lane where I had a flat over a greengrocers shop !!! But that all went tits up and I am still here...lol
So now you know ....
cheers
Russ
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if you wished to, as you travel up to scotland, I could organise a day or two on the finest salmon river wholly in england; the Tyne.
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Hope I didn't sound rude Russ, just interested, my mum was born in North Wales, her parents were from Scotland but now I seem to have loads of Welsh relatives...hard to trace as they are either Jones or Griffith's, altough there are also loads of Prydes and McHales too, so I know how proud the Welsh are of their heritage, just like the Scots and the Irish, it's just us English that do not seem to be so proud, maybe because we are all mongrel's, mixed with other cultures......Oh dear, hope I have not insulted anyone, all with good intentions. One thing I learnt from working closely with families from other cultures...we all are built the same with the same needs and the same desires......same difference!! Oh no not X Factor..xx
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Hi Sandy, Born in Southall. I spent my first 18 years there, and then we moved to Berkshire. After that I moved with my work to many places, finally ending up in Belgium 15 years ago.
I am going to have a good look at these locations mentioned for fishing over the weekend, thanks everyone.
Kevin
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nope didn't sound rude at all Sandy ...no probs at all ...
Likewise the joke about the Scots and kilts ... no offence meant it is just a joke , I have no problem with kilts or the wearing of , I just have a sad, sick sense of humour. But I don't like fish ...that bit I did mean ...yuk yuk, puke puke ....
cheers
Russ
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We love fish, must be one of the quickest food to cook. I was walking around Gartmorn Dam with the dogs and saw a fisherman in all the appropriate posh gear, he was packing up so I asked if he had caught anything...he had a beautiful Brown Trout and gave it to me..he too did not like fish....we also had a guest that went fishing and gave me his Brown Trout ...so meaty and very tasty. We often walk around Pepper Mill Dam, thats next to Devilla Forest, we collect Berries and Herbs, you see loads of Pheasant's and Loads of fishermen you can also get Nuts so a good place to "shop" or harvest food for free. The Dam is next to/behind the once home of the Blackadders, Lord Edmund Blackadder, his family mausoleum is there is an overgrown cemetery...must take some photos.....the Police use the castle now!!!!!!
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lots of salmon around us. the only problem is getting away from the fish farmers.
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Oh, forgot to say (1) we are very busy ALL year round with bookings for next year. (2) we have a BIG garage with a freezer for catches, a sink to prepare the gutted fish and we can let you cook it if you want + a large boiler room to dry your wet things.....and we are a Happy pair ;D ;D P.S..not touting for trade as we do OK anyway!!