Fish-Hawk.Net

Office was a little slow today and while trying to find info on fishing and research a future trip to the Orkney's I stumbled upon a site much less busy than Fish-Hawk but with a similar homey feel and appearance. Anyways I enjoyed reading the fishing reports posted by good anglers like ourselves, but man, it really is a whole different world of angling over the Atlantic.

Give these a read if you've got the time, you'll like the language and the pictures. It's so foreign yet English

1. Loch of the Storms. Short report.
http://www.wild-fishing-scotland.co.uk/ ... php?t=1322

2. Loch Eighearch and the Allt Garbh (not the Algarve) WHAT!!! Short Report.
http://www.wild-fishing-scotland.co.uk/ ... php?t=1296

3. Loch Nan Geades. Short Report
http://www.wild-fishing-scotland.co.uk/ ... php?t=1276

4. Loch Beannie. Short Report
http://www.wild-fishing-scotland.co.uk/ ... php?t=1280

5. Kinbrace. Longer detailed report. Good and funny read though.
http://www.wild-fishing-scotland.co.uk/ ... php?t=1290


Hope ya'll enjoy. I just loved how the guys spell trout.....TROOT.

That was quite interesting Bunk. My great grandfather used to fish some of those places back in the day. I love the markings on browns. Thanks.

Thanks Bunk, that was interesting. There lakes and the land is so pretty i wanna go
I was wondering are there lakes stocked or are the fish naturals??
And what is a Loch?

Curtis I believe Loch means Lake because otherwise they don't have any lakes on the map and where all the water is those spots are called Lochs.

Makes sense to me

And, one report I read on some Loch said the guy caught 8 naturals, so I must presume there is stocking for browns, I know there is for bows and atlantics.

Thanks Moose, thats some fine r-r-readin' that I ne'er woulda found me-self.

I canna figur out tho, why a canna r-r-read these poosts without me lame Scotts accent in me head?

I spose I'll just poor a wee dram a me Lagavulin, and go back to r-r-readin' moor stories 'a bonnie troot!

Nice report Bunk:

WTF #7.........?..........weight tapered forward??

or just WTF........??



Informative to get someone else's take on fishin, but:

Think I'd rather fish here.

Read a few of the sites from the UK, and mostly its quite an expensive sport, with pay to fish spots in the majority, and the common water left to the common (rough) fish, for the commoners.

Nah, good ol egalitarian Kanada will suit thanks very much.

TTFN...............(ta ta for now)

Jigs gotta agree with ya on the pay part. Not to sure what jolly old England is like, and I'm sure John could fill us in more on that, but, it doesnay look too much like the Scot lads have to pay an arm and a leg to get out and fish wee browns.

Sometimes it pays to think of what they might actually not be paying for fishing how and where they fish. ie: 250HP, insurance, trailer, $20 muskie lures, etc, etc, etc.

thanks for the reading of those posts Moose.

Yahbut...............all them expensive toys over here is "optional"

Unless you "need" them to "compete".............then, it's your choice.

$20.00 for a musky lure??...........Only if ya fish musky. If you can carve, you can make your own...........well sorta. I was trollin a home made one day and swear I could hear laughter. Seemed to be coming from UNDER the water

I'd most certainly like to be given the lochs a try in Scotland, home o' me ancestors. Soom o' them wee bonney troot wuid luk guid in the fry, aye yes me lad.

Ah well........

I'll be heading out to England (Coventry) next week for a month. I will be fishing with my granddaughters and grandsons there for coarse fish.. It is a bit expensive because you have to pay for a rod license and pay to access the pools. It's a bit like fishing a fish farm except that you don't pay by the inch. You do pay for that trout thought but can't remember the fee and I think it's by weight there.

There is the odd small stream and river around Coventry that you can fish for pike and zander (walleye family) and other small fish. I enjoy fishing there but I must admit we have more variety here and no access fees.

If you decide to fish in the ocean that can be very costly.

Fished all over UK for 30 years, some parts of mainland europe too. Expensive??? It can be. Fishing local ponds and rivers is typically free but then these waters are overfished and tough to get anything of any size. Stock ponds are springing up all over the place for carp and trout (bows), this can get pricey if you fish them a lot. Fly fished Scotland for trout in stocked ponds and wild lochs, oh those wild browns . I think I could say I was skunked there far more times than I have been in Canada but I have spent more here.... Boat, garage for boat, walleye tackle, bass tackle, muskie tackle

I'm considering a trip over next summer. It's still very preliminary planning, but, I hope to head up to the Orkneys from Edinburgh and then back. Supposedly the Orkneys are a little cheaper to fish with good opportunities. There are cottage rentals, B&B's and hotels galore over there, and I'm thinking.... just thinking.....and more thinking of the possibilities for Brenda, myself and maybe the kids.

That was awsome man!!!!!! Those are some kool TROOT CATCHERS

I fished a lake on the German Swiss border. Getting a license was an ordeal. Germans have to take a course and pass a test to be able to get a fishing license and you need a passport photo for your license. They were at a loss of what to do with a foreigner. They conferred and finally came up with a precedent setting example of the Englishman who got his license. They asked me for my Canadian fishing license which I didn't have. I told them on the great lakes you need a license and in the north everyone fishes free . They bought that one and issued me a license.

The lake has Eels, Pike, and Flechen which looks like a trout but which I am told is not. We went to a promising location but were immediately accosted by an angry Swiss guy who said he had rights for the water below the point. Commercial fishermen have rights over certain sections of water and they are usually the most promising sections.

It was my cousin who coaxed me into fishing there and all I had to show for it was the smallest Pike I ever caught. Later I saw the giant nets they put across large sections of that lake and I had to ask myself WTF a Canadian is doing fishing in Germany. We are truly blessed up here.