If only i had a spare 2.6 million!

[Lochan_load]

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/

[Robbie]

Everyone need a dream.

[Wildfisher]

I would not be selling permits to or encouraging the visiting  Proles.

So no management strategy  changes there then   :lol:

[Laxdale]

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. 

[Wildfisher]

It went downhill from there. 

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

[Lochan_load]

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.....

[Laxdale]

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.

[Wildfisher]

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.

[Laxdale]

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.

[Wildfisher]

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