Chapter 12 – Paradise Lost
In the latest instalment of Not Exactly Fishing, Gordon Mack recalls how his beloved hill loch retreat, tucked away off the beaten track in the foothills of The Cuillin was unexpectedly burgled.
Continue ReadingLochhead ‘breathtakingly wrong’ say Arran conservationists
IT is comforting to note that I am not alone in identifying the SNP Government in Scotland of being long on rhetoric but coming up short on action when it concerns many aspects of marine conservation. And Richard Lochhead, the fisheries minister stands accused again of being out of touch with reality in the latest…
Continue ReadingYes it’s a record-breaking shark – er, well actually offically it isn’t
TWO record-breaking sharks, caught off south-west Scotland by sea anglers taking part in an official tagging programme, have highlighted the bizarre rules governing official statistics of UK catches. Two of the largest smoothhound ever seen in Scottish waters were captured by Steve Frayling and Guy Stewart of Paisley-based Silverlure Sea Angling Club and weighed in…
Continue ReadingTaransay – fishing dreams of the wildest west
SO, Ben Fogle is keen to buy the ‘castaway’ Hebridean island of Taransay. I hope he’s successful. He is one person likely to ensure it remains what it is, a small jewel of isolation in our increasingly crowded world. I have been fortunate to visit it on several occasions as a result of family ties,…
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