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Up until last season, my thoughts about lovely Loch Earn in Perthshire were of boyhood memories; days and nights of camping on its shores as a youngster, catching innumerable small dark brownies, but never anything of any size. However, reports kept filtering through to me about the superb brown trout angling to be enjoyed nowadays…

The one advantage that we have is that not many people fish for the carp over here; the people here have that old buffalo mentality ‘well, if it’s not good to eat why fish for it’. Now that’s to our advantage. Trouble is when they do catch one they invariably kill it and throw the…

Lochboisdale Hotel Lochboisdale Hotel is a small family run hotel situated at the ferry terminal overlooking the harbour with splendid views across Minch to Canna and Rhum.We have 12 double/twin rooms and 5 single rooms all with ‘en-suite’ facilities. We offer a multi choice menu with daily ‘specials’ featuring the best of fresh local produce….

On days when there has been little wind and some cloud cover the fish have been feeding avidly on the huge hatches of buzzers that have been in evidence. I have had a couple of guiding trips this week and thoroughly enjoyed both the company and the fishing. On Monday I took my client to…

Articles by John Olliff-Cooper John Olliff-Cooper John started his writing career with Angling magazine in the late 1960’s, since when he has contributed to most of the better-known hard copy magazines. Flirted with modernity for a few years, then panicked at the shallow hype of it all, and fled through 180 degrees. Having been properly…

As ever, cricket, or to be more accurate, my eldest son’s cricket, has dominated my summer, and I’ve hardly been fishing at all. What started as a fun flirtation with sea-fishing at Brighton marina in the coarse close season slowly developed into an interest in that side of the sport, and more especially, into an…