Gualin estate that includes the river dionard up for grabs, how he other half live eh?
https://blog.fishpal.com/2017/08/11/highland-sporting-estate-for-sale/
Everyone need a dream.
I would not be selling permits to or encouraging the visiting Proles.
So no management strategy changes there then :lol:
A year or two ago someone on SFF declared Loch Dionard to be the best sea trout loch in Scotland.
I enquired if he had fished all the sea trout lochs in Scotland.
It went downhill from there. :D
Quote from: Laxdale on August 11, 2017, 02:28:45 PM
It went downhill from there. :D
I can imagine; but so has the Dionard, it's not what it was. For a start some of the vandals who have owned it over more recent years have bulldozed a road up what was a pristine glen, only accessible by foot, to facilitate access by modern fat arsed, lazy bastards of salmon fishers and pretend stalkers. It was not like that when Commander Fergusson owned it. Everything gets reduced to the lowest common denominator.
I have posted this before, but here is a grand tale by Seton Gordon of salmon fishing on the Dionard before it was vandalized.
http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6722.msg61035#msg61035
I'll read that later Fred, the lochs somewhere I want to fish at some point. There is also a bothy of some sort at the Loch so you can stay there overnight, sure it's a bit more than a bothy if the road being put in is anything to go by. Not sure about access to fishing.....
The loch is one beat on the fishing rotation with the option of staying overnight in the bothy.
It is popular as the loch is usually in play when the river is bone dry.
I think you are right Gordon. it's always been very exclusive fishing .
Andy -you will enjoy that story - written in the 1940s about fishing in the early part of the 20th Century. Seton Gordon was IMO one of the very best Scottish outdoor men and writers, I just hope his work will be remembered.
It is not very exclusive....there were two groups of guys (read bunch of pissheads) from SFF going every year, and one group form the Lewis too (thy did really well this year).
As with all that sort of fishing, you have to get a group together then get your foot in the door.
A hell of a lot cheaper than a week on a big river too.
Have you looked at the promotional video in the sales link? Well produced but ridiculous. Why would anyone want use a 15 foot double handed salmon rod on what is really just a burn?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FavYvQy0vKU
Quote from: claretbumble on August 11, 2017, 06:13:01 PM
When the road went in, that stopped.
Spoil sports. :lol:
Quote from: claretbumble on August 11, 2017, 06:13:01 PM
I know a certain group, who used to hike over the hill on a Saturday afternoon, stay in the bothy (the key was easily found), spin it all day Sunday, and take out as many fish as they as they could physically carry. They did it one October weekend every year for decades... never got caught. When the road went in, that stopped.
Reminds me of the yarn about the local worthy who told the Hamanaway keeper (the day he was leaving) that he used to poach Dibidale all the time and that the keeper had never caught him. "I used to sit watching the fat bastard through the rifle scope" was what the keeper told me once the plonker had moved on.
£2.6 million is not bad actually. You would have to pay that for some of the bigger, posher houses in Aberdeen. :D
i have to say that if i had £2.6M i'd buy a rather nice house in Extremadura and spend the rest bumming around the world with a fly rod... :8)
which is why i'll never have £2.6M, of course :roll: :lol:
Right now you could probably buy Extremadura for £2.6M. You have already paid for the motorway network, so why not just take a job lot? :lol:
aye, & i'd get the lynx chucked in for free! result! :8)
we did see one, once. well we think it was a lynx, it was a bit difficult to tell
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Read that report (if you can call it that) Fred, very good. No sense of sport back then....the fish has got off after an epic battle and sits recovering in the tail "tally ho ginger, gaff the bugger!"
Aye and they wonder why there are next to no salmon left. Every fish caught was gaffed and / or clubbed to death
Read a lot of Seaton Gordon's stuff in my teens, His exploits on the Fionn Loch really gripped my teenage mind and I walked in to fish there the following May...still one of my favourite memories of my trout fishing days, good sized fish that fought like buggery !
Hoolet
Quote from: admin on August 11, 2017, 04:31:54 PM
I can imagine; but so has the Dionard, it's not what it was. For a start some of the vandals who have owned it over more recent years have bulldozed a road up what was a pristine glen, only accessible by foot, to facilitate access by modern fat arsed, lazy bastards of salmon fishers and pretend stalkers. It was not like that when Commander Fergusson owned it. Everything gets reduced to the lowest common denominator.
I have posted this before, but here is a grand tale by Seton Gordon of salmon fishing on the Dionard before it was vandalized.
http://www.wildfisher.co.uk/smf/index.php?topic=6722.msg61035#msg61035
Lovely piece of writing, especially the bit about roses in December :)
Fished the Dionard river and loch many years ago when able and fit to do so, at some point the loch was shared between Gualin Estate & Gobernuisgach Lodge and only through asking were we granted permission from Donald McDonald the keeper at the time at Gobernuisgach Lodge I have to say it was mostly midweek fishing as the people who had the lease on Gober and Loch Dionard fished it most weekends during the season. We always did the long walk in from the Gober end up Glen Golly and over Creag Staonsaid towards Loch Dionard. Nice hut/bothy but we always took our own tent in. Fair auld walk it was ........knackered when you eventually got there. Occasionally stopped off on route and fished a couple of lochs on route which shall remain nameless just check the route from the lodge to the loch and will not take much to work out the lochs in question .............all we will say was pleasantly surprised ! Don't think the lochs had come across many fishers in a long while. If I mind back the lease on Gober was to a business man from the Edinburgh area and talked to him on the odd occasion ( full marbles in the mouth brigade ) only as he wished a wee report on how we were doing. Had all the trips from fish caught to weather and dates till a certain spaniel decided that the book seemed something good to chew and eat !!! Many memories passed oot its bloody arse, for trout fishing some fantastic lochs in and around that area. Hey, ask you might just get permission !
Would I buy it if I had the cash and money was no object you bet I would and of course invite all you lads to fish it for free :D :D
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Gober Lodge
Quote from: superscot on August 13, 2017, 05:03:36 PM
Would I buy it if I had the cash and money was no object you bet I would and of course invite all you lads to fish it for free :D :D
Can I have first shot at Heather Point? :lol:
Barry Stewart or something like that was the guys name.
Used to be chairman of the fishery board up here. A toff, but not a bad lad.
Quote from: Laxdale on August 13, 2017, 05:34:06 PM
A toff, but not a bad lad.
I know one or two very decent toffs.
QuoteBarry Stewart or something like that was the guys name.
Thats the very man .
Also remember the lease on the estate coming up a few years back £20k a year if i mind !!!! nice if you have it
The lodge would make a good base for us, we should mibbees club together for ourselves... keep out the riff raff
Hoolet
Quote from: Hoolet on August 13, 2017, 08:44:34 PM
... keep out the riff raff
Aye, wi dinnae waant ony o them :D