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The Highland Angler

Wild Fish from Wild Places

  • Fishing Haunts
    • Talybont Reservoir – The First Fishing Outing of Spring
    • West Ollay – A South Uist Machair Loch Obsession
    • Lough Corrib – An Angling Love Affair
    • Loch Stack – Memories of Fishing one of Scotland’s Great Sea Trout Lochs
    • Loch Leven – Memories of the Evening Rise, a Golden Time now Lost
    • Fishing Adventures in South Uist: A Tale of Sea Trout
    • Caladail – the Limestone Jewel of Caithness
    • The Lower Duart – a Salmon Beat Beyond Compare
    • Loch Dionard – A Special Place
  • Musings & Anecdotes
    • A Lost Fish on Lough Corrib – Well, Almost!
    • Memorable Lost Fish : My Loch Bornish Regret
    • First Memories – Why I Fish
    • Loch Leven – frustration, the one that got away!
    • Dapping – A Delightful Diversion
    • Lost Fish – occasional posts on the ones that got away!
    • Hill Lochs – and the Perfect One
    • My Poaching Paradise – it’s OK Honestly!
    • The Army Flyfishing Team – My Year of Humiliation
  • Fishing Trips
    • Lough Corrib Mayfly – Good Friends and an Unexpected Competition
  • Our Issues
    • The Last Scottish Salmon – a Short Story
    • The Water Companies – A Scandal of Our Times
    • Sorrows – What Should I Do?

Category: Fishing Trips

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Fishing Trips

June 10, 2026

Lough Corrib Mayfly – Good Friends and an Unexpected Competition

This year’s Lough Corrib mayfly trip wasn’t about me. It was a proud day as I was finally surpassed in angling success by my ageing angling protégé Alan. There’s no disguising that over the week...

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