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Ythan Valley Fishery A well established 11 acre trout fishery lying in the scenic beauty and wild life of rural Aberdeenshire but only 20 minutes by car from Aberdeen, Peterhead and Inverurie. A well established 11 acre trout fishery lying in the scenic beauty and wild life of rural Aberdeenshire but only 20 minutes from…

As I write, I am surrounded by 2000 or so fishing books, plus many others on wildlife and travel. Fishing titles going back to the 1700’s on big game fishing, coarse, sea, trout and salmon angling. Some are ‘How to do it’ titles, others author tales of travel, adventure and the fighting big fish from…

Last Saturday I had to go to Didcott in Oxfordshire for a couple of hours work. I left Bristol in freezing cold conditions, but bright sunshine. The drive along the M4 was directly into the sun and thus quite a strain on the eyes. On reaching Hungerford the fields were covered with snow. In Oxford…

I just returned from a trip to the USA, this time it was Florida. And bearing in mind the subject of Clive Gammons article this month, I have to get in quickly and tell you that every penny for that trip came out of my own pocket! I’m sure that’s dispelled a few illusions! Anyway,…

Just recently the footpath to my favourite shore marks were re-opened after Foot and Mouth restrictions had closed them due to the farmer grazing his sheep over and along the cliff path. I have got to say these closures have made me growl just a bit.I was still in a growling frame of mind, when…

Through flatlands at first, with neat homesteads and farms, then up, and up, through the high Hottentot Holland range of mountains, with our ears popping. This is wine country. Ordered rows of vines covered the hillsides as we slid down beyond the mountains. Names familiar from wine bottles past: those gone delights, each with a…