A day in the hills
Last weekend I had a lovely sunday afternoon in the hills south of Edinburgh. This strip of undulating tops and glens is one of the best things about living in the city. You can be striding up a nice slope only a few minutes after leaving the chaos of Princes Street on a busy shopping day.
Unfortunately the fishing options within the hills are more limited than you’d wish for, with most of the lochs recipients of stockie rainbows. This seems to be the case in almost all the central belt with most anglers these days prefering finless wonders to bright wild trout. One of the lochs is called Glencorse, and it lay at the end of my jaunt along the tops from Nine Mile Burn.
I spent a little time sitting on the dam wall and enjoying the peace, and it wasn’t long before I noticed the odd rise. Mostly they looked like very small wild brownies, with the odd probable rainbow making an appearance. This really is a lovely spot and I would certainly fish it if it wasn’t a put and take.
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Hell, fish it anyway, Just because morons stock rubber trout in a lot of the good places is no reason to stop fish them…
Sadly, Tom, it kind of is.. To fish a place like the loch I mentioned you have to pay a premium to cover the cost of the rainbows stocked by the club that owns the fishing rights. I’m not going to go along with the status quo and pump more money into this kind of fishing. In the end it’s going to do nothing but further harm the potential for proper wild loch fishing in this part of the world..
Oops. Pay to play. Yeah, you don’t want to support more of that.
We have a few of those places here, but mostly the state stocks rubber trout in public water.
Anyone can fish for ‘em, but most of us don’t.
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