This wee book about a wee river is a wee treat! John Inglis Hall tells us of the love he has for a small river near Dalwhinnie. It starts out telling us how he came across the river while heading north on a fishing trip and over the following years how it was incorporated every year into his holiday itenary until it became his near sole fishing destination year in year out. It is littered with poetic prose for the landscape and river as he describes his journey fishing upstream. He talks us through each sun dappled riffle, run, eddy, and bottomless peaty pool, the shear pain of iced water down the waders and the drudgery of incesent rain and wet sandwiches. Its diverges for a couple of chapters to nearby hill lochs he visits and tells us of fights with wild 10lb browns caught trolling and hiking through the heather to catch 3lbers on the fly. This is an excellent bit of escapism to take you back to the waterside in the close season. This is amongst my all time favourites. Well reccomended for any river fisherman 9/10. JB

125 pages
35 b+w line drawings

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Sounds good.

Another book in the same vane is Loved River by HR Jukes . One of my favourites...

Fishing a highland stream is a classic,I have read it many times.It is about the Truim,a tributary of the Spey. You travel along a fair bit of it when heading north on the A9 past Dalwhinnie.

Jim

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Thanks for that JB, it sounds like a no brainer to me.
I must have a word with my librarian friend in Fife.
Just joking, i'll pick a copy up as it sounds the type of book you would want to read again and again.
S.

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