For anyone who may be disabled, here is a competition which is free to enter and which if you win, could provide you with the experience of a lifetime. There is no charge and no catch – unless you hook a magnificent salmon. Fly fishing for salmon – the King of fish – is normally available to only the very fortunate. Game fishing for both salmon and sea trout in one of Scotland’s most scenic locations is reserved to an exclusive few.
You don’t even have to be an experienced fisherman. Many of the previous winners over the past eleven years had had little or no experience but with help from the resident ghillie they soon learnt how to cast the lure and enjoyed the thrill of game fishing by pitting their wits against the wiles of the fish. The Fly Fishing Experience is sponsored by Clos-o-Mat, inventors of the world-famous automatic wc/shower toilet. Together with sister company Total Hygiene Ltd, who specialise in bathroom products for people with special needs, they have dreamed up this magnificent prize.
The Doon is one of the best known salmon and sea trout waters in the West of Scotland. It rises in the southern uplands flowing through beautifully wooded countryside with many well-known and productive salmon beats along its 23 miles. Smithston Fishings is very exclusive and is available to only a handful of fly-fishers each week. It comprises some thirty-three named and varied pools. Levelled areas close to a number of the pools allow for wheel-chair occupants to fish in safety. The ghillie, a keen and experienced fly fisher, not only advises and generally assists the rods, but also works hard to keep the fishings looking at their best. A spacious fishing cabin has been built with good vehicular access and is equipped with many facilities.
Try backwater reservoir up by Alyth/Blairgowrie…it feeds Dundee with water, is a really scenic place, is stocked only with Brown Trout (most of which are wild), and cost’s only =A36 for a days fishing. No boats. It tends to be really quiet, i.e. no tourists and very few anglers during the week. Fishing is well away from areas visited by Joe public. (Get hold of a gate pass for a couple of quid extra and you can take your car right up to the fishing hut).
We’re trying to plan a vacation for July 2006. We want to do it relatively cheaply, but we have some expensive ideas. My wife and I
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Cactus Ed did not like being called “environmentalist.” Nonetheless, the tossing of beer bottles by the highway had an environmentalist point. Half-assed, to my opinion, but I’ve not written books, nor become famous, nor hung around with people who glamorized me, so…
Fishing with a handline off the dock at Cairns, in North Queensland, I’d attracted a shoal of all kinds of small fish by dropping in small bits of shredded raw prawn. It was hot and I was feeling lazy and a bit sleepy. Suddenly Whhhoooooshh! I caught a glimpse of a blaze of white and felt the rush of air hit my face as a pelican dived vertically into the water, just inches from my face. Before I even knew what was happening, I was drenched as the spray erupted upwards, straight into my face.
The bulk of my response is actually in my response to your earlier posting, so I will be brief here. Your accounting approach has an inherent flaw. You assume that expenditures on non-game species are limited to revenue obtained through programs which are legislatively mandated to be spent on non-game species and that ALL of the revenue received from other revenue sources benefits non-game species. In actuality very little of the revenue sources coming from sportsmen are restricted to game species. Revenue from trout and white seabass stamps are the only ones that I recall being restricted to game species only. The vast majority of CDFG revenue is not legislatively restricted. Virtually all of this revenue comes from sportsmen. Much of it is expended on specifically for the benefit of non-game species and virtually all of it has at least a substantial benefit to non-game species. I do not oppose the concept of consumptive users of wildlife spending more per day afield or per capita than non-consumptive users for two reasons.
I have always enjoyed reading dinner descriptions in this ng, so I though maybe there is someone who would like to read about my dinner on Saturday night. We decided to have a white wine dinner, just because it has been all-red for most of us and we had forgotten that there a very good wines out there that are white. There were 6 of us, 3 couples, so everybody was bringing some bottles of wine to go with a course in the dinner. We started with Sundried Tomato Tapenade on Polenta Triangles.
Just the thought of Alaska and salmon fishing in the same mental picture conjures images of grandeur, pristine forest, snowy peaks, and a pole bent double while the line rips through the water. Alaska salmon fishing has been discovered closer than you could expect and more beautiful than all the pictures you’ve seen. This secret location is… Alaska salmon fishing is closer than you think. A few hundreds miles north of Seattle is the southern most tip of Alaska. Prince of Wales Island is the largest island in North America and the closest Alaska salmon fishing grounds that has extreme fishing success. If you choose not to drive up the Alaska Highway you will arrive in Ketchikan Alaska via commercial airlines, and take the ferry over to Prince of Wales Island or a commercial float-plane will fly you over to the island. There are resorts, lodges and guides that will accommodate you based on your vacation budget. Craig and Klawok are two villages that welcome salmon fishers from all over the world. Coho or King Salmon arrive off the Island of Noyes bringing in the first salmon harvest for the year. There are thousands of miles of inland shores to fish without ever reaching the Pacific Ocean. Most of the king salmon fishing is within a cast of shore. To reach the early arriving king salmon you will need to meet them on the edge of the Pacific as they feed up to the inlets that flow in and around the Prince of Wales.
I know its a bit off topic but this seems the best place to ask the question because of the strong UK links. Does anyone have any knowledge or experience of sea fishing from the shore in the Falklands? In particular what venues and what methods are recommended? I spent a few weeks fishing in the Falklands in 1980, a couple of years before the war, mostly for seatrout in the five small rivers there. But I did fish an estuary in West Falkland after I’d been told there were ‘mullet’ in it. Some mullet! The best way I can describe them is that they looked a bit gurnard-like -except that the ones I met went 10 to 15 lbs. They fought like salmon, and I got them on a No 3 blue and silver Mepps wonderful fish. The locals went after them floatfishing with bits of mutton.
