The Highland Angler Blog

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Dapping – A Delightful Diversion

A delightful diversion, a secret pleasure.   Dapping appeals to the eternal child in every fisherman the one that will spend hours dangling a crab line off a Cornish harbour wall or even longer messing around lifting stones in a Hebridean rockpool.

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The Lower Duart – a Salmon Beat Beyond Compare

The Lower Duart was a gem, and to my dad an obsession.

I say ‘was’ because, although it is still undeniably stunning and a hugely popular beat, in the past it was on an elevated pedestal of being one of the most wonderful, special and unique places to catch a Scottish salmon.

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Loch Dionard – A Special Place

Loch Dionard – if I was given the opportunity to spend my last twenty minutes on this earth in any place I desired it would be here, no hesitation, no doubt, it would be here. At the start of a drift just off the tiny islet and onto the rocky shore where salmon lie a mere rods length from the jagged loch side stones.