John Inglis Hall book about the Truim. First time I read it I was not overly impressed, but having read it again it has made me want to go and fish the Truim. I?ll do so next season.
It?s noticeable how attitudes have changed since the 1950s and 60s. Back then if a fish was a ?keeper? it was chapped. In the book there is an account of an afternoon on Loch Cuaich where he caught a few fish, among them a 3 and a 5 pounder. Both were chapped to be shown off in the hotel bar later.
It seemed really important to kill back then, perhaps were are lucky to have digital cameras to satisfy our more base hunter gatherer instincts, although no doubt some would still kill two fish like that in one afternoon.
I think attitudes have changed quite rapidly. Fifteen years ago almost everything was chapped - I was as guilty as anyone. Each year the freezer would be half full of salmon, trout and sea trout which were eaten or handed out to people. Now most go back - picture or not.
This year however we had a big run of salmon on the Lomond system in May most of which were chapped. One lad said to me: "I wanted to put this fish back but there was no one around to see it"...
Quote from: Malcolm on December 18, 2009, 11:05:42 PM
I think attitudes have changed quite rapidly.
For sure. Like you, in the old days, chapping was just what I did, same as most others.
Re the Truim. It's a river I want to fish too. Let's go for it.
Chapping fish... I have a photo of 22 trout I killed in a day on the Clyde. Mid 70s. The smallest was over 1lb and the biggest was about 2lb 4oz. There were some grayling too and some quite big dace, all dead. :shock:
Maybe it is looking back at the likes of these photos that has converted me to C&R - guilty conscience?
Strangely enough I had a coarse fishing background and put pretty much everything back, except trout and salmon. I have no idea why I made a distinction, because I don't particularly like eating trout or salmon???
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Alex
Quote from: haresear on December 18, 2009, 11:37:23 PM
Re the Truim. It's a river I want to fish too. Let's go for it.
Only problem is that it follows the A9 pretty closely, so it won't be terribly peaceful.
An important way-point for me was in the mid 1970s. Fishing the upper North Esk on a Sunday, on a Dod permit. Got a nice fish about 1 ?lb or so and returned it because it was too beautiful to kill. I was not 100% C+R after that of course, but it was the day I started looking at brown trout in a slightly different way.
Quote from: admin on December 19, 2009, 09:38:22 AM
Only problem is that it follows the A9 pretty closely, so it won't be terribly peaceful.
I have not fished it but walked the stretch upstram from the Invernavon caravan park south of Newtonmore just of the A9. It was quite peaceful; river heads away from the A9 and you're screened by trees from the road and the railway.
Quote from: Part-time on December 19, 2009, 06:02:25 PM
It was quite peaceful; river heads away from the A9 and you're screened by trees from the road and the railway.
That's good news PT. I'll head over there next May and shack up at the camp site.
I feel a stravaig coming on............... :D
Allan Liddle did a short article on this river for the old version of Fish Wild.
It's still there.
http://www.fish-wild.co.uk/old/index.php?setissue=11&database=1&getpage=features&pid=63
Notice he does not give any permit info. though. Dod permits are no good there either; I'm told they'll earn you a red card quicker than a Hearts player.
Sadly Sandy Bennett died this year. However, I think an estate keeper sells day tickets for around ?5.
If it comes under the upper Spey PO then surely there must be day ticket access, or is it a river Don style PO that operates there?
Which reminds me, I wonder how things are going there. :roll:
Quote from: admin on December 19, 2009, 06:46:07 PM
That's good news PT. I'll head over there next May and shack up at the camp site.
I feel a stravaig coming on............... :D
It would be a good base for a stravaig :) Some wee lochs in the hills to the west I have always wondered about as well.
Never new there was a protection order in place on the upper Spey/Truim - just as well I had no rod with me when I was there. I'm usually in the area a couple of times a month and will make some enquiries about the fishing when I'm there next.
This is on my 'to do' list as well, as the book is one of my favourites. I'd love to give it a go if you're considering organising a stravaig.
as a local resident, i've fished the association stretch of the truim a couple of times. actually caught my smallest trout ever here last season. almost as long as the spider!!
it's a very pretty water, but the trout seem few and far between. i tried moving upstream from the confluence with the spey one evening, but quite tricky wading. more than two fishermen at a time would kill it. and one's plenty.
upstream from the bridge by invernavon is estate water (glentruim) and i've not found how to fish it. however, i understand the estate's up for sale, so maybe we could all club together.... :lol:
dod permits almost anywhere locally are not a good idea. the spey bailiffs are very active