If only i had a spare 2.6 million!

[Wildfisher]

When the road went in, that stopped.

Spoil sports.  :lol:

[Laxdale]

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.

[Wildfisher]

£2.6 million is not bad actually. You would have to pay that for some of the bigger, posher  houses in Aberdeen.   

[corsican dave]

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...  :

which is why i'll never have £2.6M, of course  :roll: :lol:

[Wildfisher]

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:

[corsican dave]

aye, & i'd get the lynx chucked in for free! result!  :

[corsican dave]

we did see one, once. well we think it was a lynx, it was a bit difficult to tell
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[Lochan_load]

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!"

[Wildfisher]

Aye and they wonder why there are next to no salmon left. Every fish caught was  gaffed and / or clubbed to death

[Hoolet]

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