I would like to wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy and peaceful new year. I thought the above, complete with snow, would be very appropriate! The pool being fished by Lord Plimsol (no, he’s not really a lord) is Dipple on the lower Spey.
I’m heading back to England for the holiday [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Merry Christmas
Posted in Fishing updates, tagged Brian Marshall, Dipple pool, Hampshire Avon, John Levell, Pure Piscator, Wessex Salmon and Rivers Trust on December 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
New River Spey beat website
Posted in Fishing updates, tagged Malcolm Newbould, River Spey, Spey salmon, Wester Elchies on December 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Our friend Dr Malcolm Newbould (the gentleman responsible for running the fishspey and fishfindhorn websites) kindly wrote to tell me that Speyside’s Wester Elchies beat now has its own website.
(Hooray say’s I, and ask why aren’t there more beats doing the same now we’re in the 21st century?)
There you will find not only a list [...]
River Tay – Islamouth
Posted in Fishing updates, tagged big salmon, Islamouth beat, Meikleour Estate, River Tay, Tay fly fishing, Tay salmon on December 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
THINK OF THE mighty Tay, especially the lower river, and the word big will come up quite a lot: big river, big fish, big casts! Harling is also synonymous with this part of the river as it’s the only way to cover all the water in some of those vast pools. But it’s not all [...]
