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On Arbroath's coastline. A very good fishing mark for cod, mackerel and pollack.

My home turf.

The slight bay beneath the obvious dark crag on  the right was always a char hotspot.

I'm pretty sure Dave Felce (Corsican Dave) has fished there.

Along at Balgavies Loch. This is one of my most popular photos!

Has anyone ever fly fished Amazonia?

I stumbled across this outfit some years ago. I'm familiar with pretty much all of their target species due to having had some involvement in the aquarium hobby where pretty much all the fish fished for occasionally make an appearance.

Now, this kind of trip is eating away at me. I feel it's now top of my bucket list. I just wondered has anyone here fished the fly out there?

P.S I have no affiliation with this company. I'm just fascinated by their trips.

https://www.amazon-angler.com/

Love this place.

Quote from: SoldierPmr on March 26, 2024, 08:35:25 PMA bit of a long shot but do any of you know where I can get Springbank 10 for a reasonable price? I just can't seem to find it anywhere and when I do it's ridiculously over priced.

I have a local wine merchant that receives a quarterly allowance of Springbank, Hazelburn and Longrow.

It goes out on the shelves and they email their customer list hen it's available. I live around 7 minutes drive away. If I notice the email, put my shoes on and speed towards the shop I'll be able to pick up a bottle. But it's strictly one per customer for the 10, 15, 18 and Cask Strength. The 21 is occasionally available.

They also host regular tastings. If you attend a tasting you are given the right to enter a lottery. It's free to enter and if your number comes up you're given the right to buy  a bottle. I scored an 18 a few months ago that way.

It's a lot of hassle eh?

I have had some luck though. If I can grab another 10 I'll drop you a message.

Quote from: Fishtales on March 26, 2024, 10:01:04 PMIt says on the website they accept cards so I thought you would be able to buy online by contacting them.

No, they only accept in person sales.

Not only have they seen interest in from foreign markets they have also seen interest from collectors and investors. The distillery can't produce enough to keep up with demand these days.

Even if you visit the shop bottles may not be available for sale. They deliberately put them on the shelves at different times of day to prevent queues developing at opening time too.

The problem is compounded by locals buying up stock and flipping for a profit too....

This brings back memories of a ski trip to the Canadian Rockies in the early noughties, one January.

We visited a place called the Cave And Basin. A natural hot springs located in the mountains where the water remains around 27 c all year long. It transpired that local aquarists had performed their own experiments by introducing various tropical fish species into the water there to see what would survive.

Whilst there we saw West African jewel cichlids, Sailfin Mollies and the ubiquitous mosquito fish (I've seen the latter in several countries that they don't belong in now).

But what odd was peering into the water from an icy wooden boardwalk surrounded by snow.

It seems out of everything dumped in there, these three species had won out and were now thriving. However this had come at a cost. The native Banff longnose dace is now extinct as a result of being out competed by the invasives.