Articles
Trooty Evolution
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- Published on Sunday, 01 July 2007 06:25
- Written by Bob Graham
Some time ago I was in Tesco with the managing director and the wee grandson. He was sleeping in his buggy so I looked after him while the MD wandered around with the barrow. To pass the time I picked up a magazine from the rack and started to browse. There was an article on some university expedition to some jungle where they claimed to have observed evolution in action.
The Expert and the Novice
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- Published on Sunday, 01 July 2007 06:23
- Written by Sandy Birrell
The Expert
It was February. The weather had been fine for a few days and I needed to get the cobwebs out of the casting arm. I packed the gear in the boot of the car and headed for the local fishery. It wasn’t one of my usual haunts as I prefer to fish the wild lochs for brown trout, but it was in easy reach, and more to the point, open.
A Short History of Loch Style Fishing
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- Published on Sunday, 01 July 2007 06:07
- Written by Lesley Crawford
Scottish loch skills are as enduring and timeless as the waters they are practised on. Wild brown trout or sea trout are the normal quarry and these canny creatures have to be angled for with specialist tactics as the fish do not tend to give themselves up easily. So let’s take a look now at how `loch style’ has evolved and grown to its current highly popular status.
River Deveron - Euchries Beat
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- Published on Thursday, 31 May 2007 05:59
- Written by Fred Carrie
The Euchries beat on the River Deveron in Aberdeenshire lies about 10 miles down-river from the market town of Huntly. The Deveron is quite a big river at this point, probably roughly the same size as the River Don at Dyce or the River Tummel at Pitlochry.
My wee Burn
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- Published on Thursday, 31 May 2007 05:53
- Written by Bob Graham
I know exactly when I first fished this burn – June 1951. Just passed my qually, off to the big school in August and, for the first time, allowed to go out of town fishing on my new bike. Now this wasn't my home burn – that was over the back fence and a couple of hundred yards away – but I was big enough and old enough to need some variety and experience some new waters.