J Darcy 5,871 Posted April 10, 2011 Report Share Posted April 10, 2011 Hopeing to get up to loch awe may or june. lovely water, altho bailif is an absolute tit, lol. Up a few times in 2009.for the weekend bud never seen a bailif.After buying or permits From the small post office.Just at the start of the loch.. right. He is a bit of a guillie and a keeper and a twat! Many years ago he spent over an hour searching for livebait around us, in the woods, bivvys, fields etc. It was quite funny. He kept saying we had been reported by other anglers. Because it wasnt possible to catch so many fish in a short space, lol. We had something like 14 doubles with 4 20's in a morning.... The funny thing was they were in a livebait tube some 2oyrds off the bank... you can imagine us all snigering on the bank. This was however, before i came a law abidding angler and set up my guiding! obviously! lol.... goodluck... Hi RFYL, pm me with your prices for single days and as to whether you have a boat or not and the lakes fished . I might be interested as would some friends i know. Cheers. p.s good luck this week. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Hopeing to get up to loch awe may or june. lovely water, altho bailif is an absolute tit, lol. Up a few times in 2009.for the weekend bud never seen a bailif.After buying or permits From the small post office.Just at the start of the loch.. right. He is a bit of a guillie and a keeper and a twat! Many years ago he spent over an hour searching for livebait around us, in the woods, bivvys, fields etc. It was quite funny. He kept saying we had been reported by other anglers. Because it wasnt possible to catch so many fish in a short space, lol. We had something like 14 doubles with 4 20's in a morning.... The funny thing was they were in a livebait tube some 2oyrds off the bank... you can imagine us all snigering on the bank. This was however, before i came a law abidding angler and set up my guiding! obviously! lol.... goodluck... Hi RFYL, pm me with your prices for single days and as to whether you have a boat or not and the lakes fished . I might be interested as would some friends i know. Cheers. p.s good luck this week. No worries JD, will do. As it happens i will be phoneing one of your pals quite soon, for a bit of the sea fishing crack. Would he be one of the mates? If so, we'll get sumat sorted like that. Then no money changes hands.... p.s. i think you'd enjoy the yorkshire rivers jd? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 11, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well, at last i am getting back there. And cant wait. Its been a long long time, I have been up on my own since my accident but not done a guiding trip for quite a while now.. Going up on monday till thursday. Hopefully the guy will have a new PB when he returns,(never pridict angling, thats why its so good) and i will have had a few fish. Taking him to a privately owned loch where the fishing can be pretty good but he's not to bothered about numbers, more the size. So this loch is ideal.. Will hopefully get some good snaps and let you know how we get on.. Hi RFYL, just a question mate. How can you guide someone when you rarely fish the water yourself? If there is one thing you need to know to succeed in fishing is local knowledge. Yeah Baw that is quite obvious. As it happens i do have the knowledge of the waters i guide on, other wise i wouldnt be able to offer them fish. Features dont change over the years, neither do holding areas or hotspots mate. I have taken 20lb+ fish from 12 different scottish lochs. And the ones i use i know pretty well.. When i used to use lomond a lot, i never strayed out off my boundary(an area i learn over 30 yrs, probarbly no more than a mile squared). I have had a good return off lomond, and no one has ever complained mate. some people arent scared by a big water but a lot are. They seem very daunting. And fishing them blind can be a real task..Ie: we trolled some 5 miles along loch awe without seeing a fish on the finder or indeed a like looking feature, so uniform it was quite boring, and this was all in range of the bank and a cast. Imagine driving up to this water knowing little about it, and bivving up in that area. A blank would probarbly be on the cards.. Anyway, van is packed, i'm off. Oh and tyhe barometer has changed! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
rocky1 942 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 have a gooden russ ,i,m up the mull easter weekend ,car,nt wait Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 11, 2011 Report Share Posted April 11, 2011 Well, at last i am getting back there. And cant wait. Its been a long long time, I have been up on my own since my accident but not done a guiding trip for quite a while now.. Going up on monday till thursday. Hopefully the guy will have a new PB when he returns,(never pridict angling, thats why its so good) and i will have had a few fish. Taking him to a privately owned loch where the fishing can be pretty good but he's not to bothered about numbers, more the size. So this loch is ideal.. Will hopefully get some good snaps and let you know how we get on.. Hi RFYL, just a question mate. How can you guide someone when you rarely fish the water yourself? If there is one thing you need to know to succeed in fishing is local knowledge. Yeah Baw that is quite obvious. As it happens i do have the knowledge of the waters i guide on, other wise i wouldnt be able to offer them fish. Features dont change over the years, neither do holding areas or hotspots mate. I have taken 20lb+ fish from 12 different scottish lochs. And the ones i use i know pretty well.. When i used to use lomond a lot, i never strayed out off my boundary(an area i learn over 30 yrs, probarbly no more than a mile squared). I have had a good return off lomond, and no one has ever complained mate. some people arent scared by a big water but a lot are. They seem very daunting. And fishing them blind can be a real task..Ie: we trolled some 5 miles along loch awe without seeing a fish on the finder or indeed a like looking feature, so uniform it was quite boring, and this was all in range of the bank and a cast. Imagine driving up to this water knowing little about it, and bivving up in that area. A blank would probarbly be on the cards.. Anyway, van is packed, i'm off. Oh and tyhe barometer has changed! I'll agree to disagree with you mate. Anyhow, good luck with your venture Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Welll not a bad trip. not a good trip. lol. Had to work for the fish which were caught, in crazy conditions. From very warm high preasured weather. to wild windy cold wet conditions. It really did give us 3 seasons in 3 days. Good to be back out and the guy that came along has a new PB, and really enjoyed his time. He will be coming back for more... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Lab 10,979 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Welll not a bad trip. not a good trip. lol. Had to work for the fish which were caught, in crazy conditions. From very warm high preasured weather. to wild windy cold wet conditions. It really did give us 3 seasons in 3 days. Good to be back out and the guy that came along has a new PB, and really enjoyed his time. He will be coming back for more... The good old Scottish weather for you mate...........that old saying "If you dont like the weather, stay around for 5 minutes"..... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 Welll not a bad trip. not a good trip. lol. Had to work for the fish which were caught, in crazy conditions. From very warm high preasured weather. to wild windy cold wet conditions. It really did give us 3 seasons in 3 days. Good to be back out and the guy that came along has a new PB, and really enjoyed his time. He will be coming back for more... The good old Scottish weather for you mate...........that old saying "If you dont like the weather, stay around for 5 minutes"..... hahaha... Yep. seen it much much worse. I LOVE IT! Especially when your out on your boat in a swell a mile out from the bank and you have to keep the boat head on in to the waves, as they crash over the boat and hit you full in the face... lol.. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 I wouldn't say the weathersbeen crazy mate, pretty much average for this time of year. Your lucky it never snowed which wouldn't be abnormal up here. I suppose when you live in scotland you get used to it and adjust. Anyhow, how did you do, any pics? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 i do however love it like this, lol... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 I wouldn't say the weathersbeen crazy mate, pretty much average for this time of year. Your lucky it never snowed which wouldn't be abnormal up here. I suppose when you live in scotland you get used to it and adjust. Anyhow, how did you do, any pics? Baw i know all about the scottish weather pal, beleive me... Be it in november, january, spring or summer.... Been snowd off, flooded off etc.. I actually meant crazy weather for fishing pal! Not for us sat on the bank or boat... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 I wouldn't say the weathersbeen crazy mate, pretty much average for this time of year. Your lucky it never snowed which wouldn't be abnormal up here. I suppose when you live in scotland you get used to it and adjust. Anyhow, how did you do, any pics? Baw i know all about the scottish weather pal, beleive me... Be it in november, january, spring or summer.... Been snowd off, flooded off etc.. I actually meant crazy weather for fishing pal! Not for us sat on the bank or boat... I also meant the weather isn't crazy this time of year for the fishing pal, it's the norm. We are used to it and can't adapt. No need to get all tetchy pal, I only repeated and responded to your exact words. You don't need to list months of the year when you've been here pal, when you stay here 365 days of the year, someone visiting on the odd occasion doesn't impress much. But I'm glad you enjoyed your visit to gods chosen land, it is indeed a splendid place to stay. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
runforyourlife 361 Posted April 16, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 i lived in scotland for 12 years of my life mate... I have the most scottish name available(my father is scottish)... tetchy, lol. Its you who doesnt seem to be able to get your head around that i visit and know scotland well. It is as you say, a great place to stay, my one concern with it is that the pike dont grow big enough there, lol, if they did i dont think you could fault the landscape... Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 16, 2011 Report Share Posted April 16, 2011 No probs, where about did you stay mate? I don't disagree that you are familiar with Scotland. If you read back I only questioned how someone can be as effective a guide as a local man. I game fish and gullies are restricted to there own river regarding knowledge nevermind country. The climate changes up here as lab says by literally the minute so local knowledge is a must in my opinion. But I suppose it will be the usual suckers that won't no any better you'll get as customers anyhow so it won't matter lol. All the gear and no idea type Quote Link to post Share on other sites
baw 4,360 Posted April 17, 2011 Report Share Posted April 17, 2011 So what was the guys PB and do you have any pictures? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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