Winter reading

[Malcolm]

The only time time I have visited was as a hormone-wracked teenager in 1985 and any thoughts of fishing were displaced by the beautiful (and very uninhibited) Faeroese lasses.

Apparently if you aren't quick off the mark at the Faroese clubs you will only be left with stunniingly beautiful 5ft 10 blondes. All the 6ft ones will have been taken.

[Traditionalist]

Apparently if you aren't quick off the mark at the Faroese clubs you will only be left with stunniingly beautiful 5ft 10 blondes. All the 6ft ones will have been taken.

Yeah, well I suppose a lot depends on the club;

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/60/Faroese_girls_in_costume.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eileensanda/4737085504/#lightbox/

TL
MC

[Ythanjoe]

Yeah, well I suppose a lot depends on the club;

TL
MC

Well I dont go fishing just to catch tiddlers. The fishings probably only any good late afternoon /early evening, the rest of the time I'm up for it if they are
Joe

[Tweed]

Any of our resident Shetland buffs (or even Shetland residents :) read "Between weathers" by Ron McMillan?  Worth a read?

Andrew

[Wildfisher]

I'm on the last few pages now of "A Singing Reel" by Moray Maclaren. I'd give it a mixed review TBH. Firstly it really is of another age, only 50 odd years old or so, but very much a different world.  Nothing wrong with that of course  (I read lots of old stuff), but it does make me realize  how old I am getting.  :lol:

Well enough written and while I found his style - which is basically never use 10 words when 110 will suffice - enjoyable to begin with, I did start to find it tedious 1/2 way into the book and found  myself skim-reading many paragraphs to get to the point he was making. He does tend  to over embellish to make or illustrate his point a wee bit. Just my opinion of course.

I'd like to visit Faroe after reading it, but accept it is unlikely to be the same place as it was way back them when I was one year old.  Some good stuff on sea trout fishing in Shetland, but I do wonder how much of that is still valid in these days salmon farms?

I'd say it is certainly worth a read for all that. Add it to your fishing library!  

[Malcolm]

I like that old verbose style.

The books I like are invariably languid story type books with lots of asides. So books like Negley Farson's "Going Fishing", David Street's "Fishing in Wild Places" and anything by Roderick Haig brown are among the books I adore. Any of that sort of book, a glass of Old Peculiar, a quick check that the dear lady is watching Casualty, stick on Paganini's Caprices, stoke up me pipe and I'm in clover! 

[Highlander]

http://www.flickr.com/photos/eileensanda/4737085504/#lightbox/

Don't fancy the one you guys are getting.. She looks like one mean women.
:roll:

Ah books........right, hard to see by this one

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/?ie=UTF8&keywords=the+longest+silence&tag=googhydr-21&index=stripbooks&hvadid=7974493113&ref=pd_sl_1l90ksvt9e_b

[Clan Chief]

I've tried reading this three times and have always gave up about a quarter of the way through. I know many folk like it and reckon its one of the best ever . But I just dont get it for some reason. :?

[superscot]

Have a wee look on this site !! Some very rare and expensive books on sale here

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/SearchResults?kn=scottish+trout+fishing&x=0&y=0

[shad]

Just read Adrift in Caledonia: Boat-hitching for the Unenlightened , as recommended by Billy.

Great  read , if anyone wants it PM me I will pass it along .

Cheers Colin