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Old 05-05-2008, 09:30 AM
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Default UK Camping suggestions

Some friends and I are planning a camping trip for early June and I was hoping that some of you might have some good recommendations. We are pretty flexible and open to ideas in England, Wales and Scotland but do have some requirements:

1. Must be on the coast to do some salt water fly-fishing or next to a river for some wild trout fishing;
2. Must be allowed campfires and dogs;
3. Location must be fairly 'wild' (ie. not a commercialised family-site).

Any suggestions would be great - thanks in advance.
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This might be suitable, although i don't know about camp fires, fantastic views over Dartmoor, 5 mins from wild brown trout in the Teign and 40 mins from the coast.
http://www.barleymeadow.com/
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I once spent two amazing weeks fishing in North Uist camping by loch's and sometimes on the white sandy beaches . We mainly fished the loch's but I believe there was some sea trout fishing in some rivers and the sea was never far away. It is a stunning place, fishing until midnight in June as its quite far north with golden eagles flying by.
My friends novice girlfriend hooked a huge trout only to lose it at the net after playing it for probably 10 minutes!
The average size trout was probably about half a pound but some were larger and hungry for both wets and dries. We smoked some on the bank and they were delicious.
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Thanks for your help guys.

Any other suggestions out there - North Uist is a bit too far for just a few days...
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This might be of use-
Fly fishing for bass.
Remote mountain lakes
Fantastic walking country
Dogs allowed
http://www.dooyoo.co.uk/camping-inte...ngdom/1020872/
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Thanks for your help guys.

Any other suggestions out there - North Uist is a bit too far for just a few days...
Talk to Cranefly and Tigermoth the Longtown campsite on the Monnow was perfect for a large bunch of guys and the fishing is superb .
Think you are midlands so not a long run to get there .
Check out the monnow social thread ,should be some pictures of the muddy tinkers camp as its called by your mate Cothi
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Have a look here.

http://www.swlakestrust.org.uk/index.php?id=426

I would recommend the one at Roadford.

Theres loads of great wild brown trout fishing within 1/2hr drive frome rivers to lake with Roadford being superb.

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Thanks for all the suggestions, we have found a nice campsite with private beach on the Llyn peninsula in North wales. It looks great and has everything we are after. We will be targeting bass on light fly gear so it should keep us busy for a few days.
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