2013 Scotland Adventure...

[Angus]

(Sorry in advance for grammatical errors and typos, after 30 hours traveling home my head has not quite kicked back into gear yet).

Well I am back. Had such a good trip I cannot even begin to describe and managed some fishing as well. 4 little sessions to be exact. I could have had possibly more but my only beef with Scottish fishing is lack if information... It is all very localized and although there are plenty of places to fish, there are also plenty you cannot. Telling them apart can be almost impossible.

Anyway the three sessions I had were all rewarding with no donuts to be seen, which for totally new and strange terrain was pleasing. First session kicked off in a little stream off Loch Earn. Apparently a few rainbow trout had escaped a local fish fish and were plaguing the local brown trout purists (rainbows being of course from North America). Anyway any trout was a trout to me so I headed down with new Nordic Stage travel rod, stella 2500 and assortment of little P21 lures to give it a crack.

Water was stunning, clear and glassed and I was optimistic after seeing a few of what I assumed were "rises" from fish.

Within about 20 minutes of casting I was onto my first trout of the trip! One of the supposedly escapee rainbows...

You will have to excuse my timer pictures as I was fishing solo...

That was the end of that little session as dinner reservations were calling and the midgees were out in force (the only time they bothered me the whole trip thank god).

Next morning it was time to hit Loch Earn itself before heading into the central Highlands... This Loch (lake) is picturesque set in a small glacial valley in the Trossach's National Park. It is well stocked and can be fished in style for a small fee similar to a SIP (funds to go into stocking the lake with Brown Trout). It was good fun and accounted for my first Brown Trout for the trip (and ever). Just a little guy but it was great to get on the board!

Loch Earn looking back at the pub...

Next fishing stop was a small stocked lake on a property we stayed in Glen Shee...

This little session saw two browns for me and my biggest for the trip only going just shy of 30cm's (sorry no whoppers in these smaller systems)...

The next morning I hit the little stream on the property which resulted in the most fish, but collectively all pretty small. I lost count a little bit but it was around 6 or 7 little browns...

All in all good fun and cannot wait to go back! I can post more scenery pictures if anyone is interested.

Cheers!

Angus

[ellicat]

Well done on the fishing front.

More pics (of course) please.

[rayke1938]

Welcome back and more photos please.

Hope you ate plenty of stovies and neeps.

Cheers

Ray

[aussie123]

Nice bunch of Trout there Angus.

That first little Brown looks like a Lock Leven,they are great looking fish.

We used to catch a few down in some of the Snowy Lakes.They like to hang out at the mouth of the streams that enter the lakes.

Anyway looks like an awesome trip with some incredible scenery.

[sunnydays]

Awesome pics mate! Thanks for sharing.

Justin

[Do$tylz]

Nice one mate. Welcome back to reality

The new camera takes killer shots too.

[samsteele115]

Incredible pictures. Sounds like a great trip

[Angus]

Ok a few extra scenery shots...

View overlooking Portree on the Isle Of Skye

Hiking... Higher than you think, you can see little blips of people lower.

One for the road...

The Old Man OF Storr... Hard to put into perspective but you can see a man on the right of Tanya's head that sort of puts it into scale...

Glencoe.

Oban.

Fairy Pools Walk... Note the underwater arch...

One of many small Highland war memorials...

Ill put another post up later showing a lot of castles...

[Luvit]

Great report and pics Angus

How did the travel rod perform?

Are they available to the public yet?

[Keen-as-fisho]

Looks like an absolute picturesque place, the water looks stunning and very inviting Thanks for sharing Gus.

[Bri The Pom]

Heaven on Earth, great pics mate, love the hat,

[Doobsy]

Excellent.

Love the pics. What sort of treatment/filter/program were you using?

[Angus]

Excellent.

Love the pics. What sort of treatment/filter/program were you using?

Standard "dramatic" lense on the new camera...

Some pictures look washed out using it, however in some lights it is amazing. I took regular shots and filtered shots of some places and the difference was incredible. Basically it would prevent heavy glare making hill areas look silhouetted and and draw the colours out doing it far more justice...

Angus

[Eug]

Nice looking place Gus. Pics came out good.

[sweresy]

brilliant stuff mate! top shots awesome looking place....

[billp]

Great pics (love that shot of the clear pool in the rocks), and an ever better hat. Glad you got into the spirit of things.

[Angus]

As promised some of the castles (a pick of my favorites anyway)...

Edinburgh Castle

Stirling Caste

Cawdor Castle

Castle Moil (there are just literally dozens of similar smaller ruined castles).

Eilean Donan

And Castle Stalker...

[Doobsy]

Excellent.

Love the pics. What sort of treatment/filter/program were you using?

Standard "dramatic" lense on the new camera...

Some pictures look washed out using it, however in some lights it is amazing. I took regular shots and filtered shots of some places and the difference was incredible. Basically it would prevent heavy glare making hill areas look silhouetted and and draw the colours out doing it far more justice...

Angus

Yeah, cool.

Really effective.

[kmcrosby78]

Great stuff Angus. Well done on getting some fish although judging by the scenery that was just a bonus. Very jealous!!!! Cool pictures too BTW.

[benno573]

hey gus,

Great trip by the looks of it.

I've got 3-4 weeks in scotland next June, the photos have given me a few different ideas about where to go, thanks for that. Any other places that you simply "must see" while you are there?

Cheers.

Benno

[Angus]

hey gus,

Great trip by the looks of it.

I've got 3-4 weeks in scotland next June, the photos have given me a few different ideas about where to go, thanks for that. Any other places that you simply "must see" while you are there?

Cheers.

Benno

Benno...

Mate I have been 4 times but feel I just barely chipped the top. Ill be there next june july as well

Where are you going so far and Ill PM you with an absolute flood of info.

Angus

[tugger]

WOW love the under water arch that looks cool definitely a slice of heaven

[rinkerdink]

Wow great pics and look at the size of the tail on those small browns!

Looks like you caught the weather too, stunningly beautiful when you catch it right but I've spent a week there when it never stopped raining and you could almost reach up and touch the clouds. The closest thing to wild country the UK has to offer imo.

Thanks for sharing