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Fishing Tackle Shops in Scotland
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Most fisherman arriving in Scotland, perhaps to fish one of the many
famous salmon rivers or to spend a few days fishing for wild brown trout
on our highland lochs, will come well prepared and equipped. Plans will
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Fishing and accommodation will
have been booked. Rods will have been carefully packed, reels cleaned
and oiled, lines polished, knots retied, flies dressed and fly boxes
neatly organised, all with the Scottish trip in mind. All eventualities
will have been covered, nothing left to chance. Books will have been
read, internet sites scanned and magazine reports eagerly scrutinised
for every scrap of information on the proposed fishing location. But
before the first line is cast on Scottish waters there is one last vital
stop to be made and that is at the local fishing tackle shop. There, a
few pounds might be well spent on the locally favoured flies, a spool or
two of new nylon and, most important of all, the chance of a good blether with the man behind the counter about local fishing conditions, the
latest catch reports, the tactics and flies most likely to bring
success. There is nothing to beat local knowledge and where better to
find it than in the local fishing tackle shop. There are still many such
shops to be found throughout Scotland, invariably run by keen and
knowledgeable fishermen and women always happy to talk fishing. |
Tackle Shops
If you own or run a fishing
tackle shop in Scotland and would like to be listed on this
page, please send the following information to me by e-mail.
Your shop name and address, telephone number, e-mail address and
website address if you have one. Give a description (of between
150 and 250 words) of your services and information about the
fishing available to visiting anglers in your area, cost of
permits, fishing club waters etc. Please include, if possible, a
photograph of one of your local fishing rivers or lochs. The aim
of this page is to guide visiting anglers to reasonably priced,
publicly accessible fishing in Scotland.
Note:
A reciprocal link will be requested on listed websites
send me an
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Here I will list
details of Scottish fishing tackle shops with a bit of information about
the fishing in the areas they serve. Those who own or run fishing tackle
shops in Scotland are invited to send details to me by
e-mail for inclusion in the
list below - see panel top right for required information. |
Scottish Fishing Tackle Shops
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| Rod & Line Fishing
Tackle |
Shetland Isles |
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| 9 Harbour Street |
Tel 015950 695055 |
| Lerwick |
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| Shetland |
Email |
| ZE1 0LR |
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The Shetland Isles are the farthest North of
the Scottish islands. Getting here is neither cheap, nor easy,
but it is worth the effort. Ferries run a twelve hour crossing
from Aberdeen overnight on a daily basis (take a cabin, trust
me, its much more comfortable than the airplane chairs) and
there are several flights daily into Sumburgh airport on the
south end of the islands. The staggeringly beautiful scenery is
dotted with lochs and crossed by burns all full of hard fighting
brownies and sea trout. It is often said up here that people
change their loch more often than they change their flies and it
is true that two pieces of water linked by a short burn will
fish entirely differently on the same day. Midsummer sees
'Simmer dim'. The sun does set, we are not quite in the Arctic
Circle, but it doesn't set by much and so we get a couple of
hours of twilight between sunset and sunrise. I have often
fished right through the night and still been able to see well
enough to tie knots.
The cost of this paradise? I hear you ask.
Membership of the Shetland Anglers Association, which gives
access to all of the lochs in Shetland is just twenty pounds (an
additional twenty pounds gives you access to the clubs boats
too). There are no day or week permits. Once you have paid your
membership, that' it! No other charges!
When you get here, call along at the shop to
get the latest angling news and to view the local choices of
flies.
I look forward to meeting you
| Fyne Tackle |
Lochgilphead |
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| 2 Colchester Sq |
Tel:
01546 606878 |
| Lochgilphead |
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| Argyll |
website
Email |
| PA31 8LH |
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 Fyne
Tackle is located in the town square
of Lochgilphead which is only 15 minutes from the south end of
Loch Awe which offers great fishing for brown trout, rainbow
trout, pike, perch, roach, salmon, char and ferox. We have at
least one hundred hill lochs full of wild brown trout within an
hour drive of us and permits normally cost around six pounds for
the day. We stock permits for almost every fishable loch in
Mid-Argyll. The shop stocks a wide range of fishing tackle and
outdoor clothing as well as camping equipment all from leading
manufacturers, our full range is available on our new online
website along with the latest news and events. Fyne Tackle also runs Fly Fishing Argyll which is
a ghillie service with over 60 years combined experience on local
waters. We offer traditional style boat fishing on Loch Awe and
hill loch fishing at a very reasonable price with all permits
and tackle supplied. For more info check out
www.fynetackle.com
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