I am taking a guided trip to the big trout waters of the North starting Sunday 1st July - Saturday 7th. All fishing and accommodation is booked, and we were going to be a party of six. One chap has had to call-off at the last moment, so we have a vacancy for one.

Fishing will be stillwater/loch, much of it from the bank as many of the lochs are small and remote. Clients will be expected to pay their own bed & board charges (which I calculate at approx £200) and the fishing and guiding charges should be £300, although I am prepared to negotiate.

Preferably, I would like someone to take the whole package, but failing that you can have a slice at a reduced rate. Anyone wanting the whole deal will get preferential treatment.

We start on Sunday evening in Durness (Cape Wrath) for two days, then two days in Strath Halladale, finishing off with two in Caithness.

PM me.

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Stan Headley

"I started this life with nothing......and I've still got most of it left!"

Snapped up already, chaps. Offer is closed.

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Stan Headley

"I started this life with nothing......and I've still got most of it left!"

Well Stan, how did it go then?

Last week in July:

Bloody weather!! Every morning we got up to mild westerlies and by 1 pm approx we were freezing, wet, and blown-off by easterlies. The atmospherics were hellish.

We had fish every day with quite a few in the 2 - 3 lb bracket, but the real biggies just weren't playing. You can only do so much if the fish won't co-operate.

I don't know how the rest of you feel, but apart from the early weeks of the season, and Leven throughout, fishing up here has been grim.

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Stan Headley

"I started this life with nothing......and I've still got most of it left!"

Had some great days this year especially on Middleton fishery

Are we still talking about unstocked fisheries?

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Stan Headley

"I started this life with nothing......and I've still got most of it left!"

have to agree with you, every time I have tried getting out this year bar one or two instances it has either been a drought ( april,may) or floods ( june, july) or just rain and high water ( august). Think I have only actually managed about 3 or 4 good days this season which is really poor. And the fish have been off form with few rises

The Earn has been good for the Trout this year and I hit it lucky on Islay, in July, on the family holidays. Had a few evenings out on Loch Gorm and plenty of quality fish up to a couple of pounds. Don't think the weather has been as bad in my bit of Perthshire as the rest of the UK, don't get me wrong not brilliant but not awful, certainly a wee a bit extra water in the rivers has helped my trout fishing.

Norm