Category: Trips

River Tummel

The River Tummel may be a relatively short river but don’t confuse that with it being a small river. It is not. Wide, fast and ever changing it provides a challenge to any angler visiting this spectacular area of Perthshire.

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The Wrong River?

I went fishing for Grayling, at last, for the first time this “winter”. OK technically it is still most definitely Autumn and depending whether you opt for the meteorological definition or lunar definition, winter is still 3 or nearly 6 weeks away. That didn’t stop Jack Frost visiting overnight Friday and temperatures were as low as -7C in some parts of Scotland, though a balmy -3C here in Stirling when I headed off. Actually it didn’t seem that cold despite what the thermometer said as there was the dripping sound of a slight thaw from the trees around my house.

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Such Is Your Luck

I hate Swans, possibly more than Cormorants! Even when I moved right over the other side, the sodding things followed me! I have had this before up at Pendreich, the Swans make a B line for me then want me to move when I have moved away from them. I must be a Swan Magnet a target for their “white hate”

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