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Post by John Gray on Oct 3, 2007 20:51:05 GMT
Basically, were tend to be an accesesable beat, with no limit on day tickets or methods, this means that people who want to spin and may not be permitted to use such methods on other beats can come here. With comparatively low ticket prices..... Regards Blair Banks While the prices for local members are low, the price of a visitor permit on The Grantown Association water is anything but low. At £45 per day, £185 per week or £565 per season, I would be surprised if there is a more expensive association water in the whole of the UK.
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 20:56:25 GMT
While the prices for local members are low, the price of a visitor permit on The Grantown Association water is anything but low. At £45 per day, £185 per week or £565 per season, I would be surprised if there is a more expensive association water in the whole of the UK. Come on John just over £30/day on a week ticket, a bargain.The Ness aside Grantown is arguably the best association water in the UK. A quick search reveals Fochabers is more expensive. www.speyfishingfochabers.com/But come on John it is the Spey the best river in the world.
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Post by Tyne Angler on Oct 3, 2007 21:16:20 GMT
Basically, were tend to be an accesesable beat, with no limit on day tickets or methods, this means that people who want to spin and may not be permitted to use such methods on other beats can come here. With comparatively low ticket prices..... Regards Blair Banks While the prices for local members are low, the price of a visitor permit on The Grantown Association water is anything but low. At £45 per day, £185 per week or £565 per season, I would be surprised if there is a more expensive association water in the whole of the UK. John The Cardrona Association water on the Tweed was £35 per day (now increasing to £60 I believe) and had an advertised 5yr average of 17 salmon and 3 sea trout according to the recent advert for its sale. Hardly value for money in comparison to Grantown.
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Post by John Gray on Oct 3, 2007 21:23:52 GMT
While the prices for local members are low, the price of a visitor permit on The Grantown Association water is anything but low. At £45 per day, £185 per week or £565 per season, I would be surprised if there is a more expensive association water in the whole of the UK. Come on John just over £30/day on a week ticket, a bargain.The Ness aside Grantown is arguably the best association water in the UK. A quick search reveals Fochabers is more expensive. www.speyfishingfochabers.com/But come on John it is the Spey the best river in the world. Put it another way, the price differential between local permits and visitor permits at Grantown must be as high as anywhere in the UK, a visitor paying almost three times as much, for his fishing, as a local. In any case, according to my information, a day permit can be had at Fochabers for as little as £20. Few would dispute the fact that the Grantown association permit gives access to some of the very best summer sea trout fishing but, at £185 a week, also some of the most expensive association sea trout fishing in the country. The Grantown water produces a fair number of salmon to worm and spinner but, as a salmon fly water, it is perhaps over-rated. About 120 fly caught salmon this season. Not a lot, considering the rod pressure. I suspect that the increase in the price of visitor permits over the years will also be reflected in the ever decreasing number of fishing visitors to Grantown. So, in the hope of finding more reasonably priced fishing, I will be exploring new association beats next year, among them the Ness, Findhorn and Kyle of Sutherland. I may even seek the expert advice of members of this forum on how best to go about it.
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 3, 2007 21:31:53 GMT
Put it another way, the price differential between local permits and visitor permits at Grantown must be as high as anywhere in the UK, a visitor paying almost three times as much, for his fishing, as a local. In any case, according to my information, a day permit can be had at Fochabers for as little as £20. . You can get a day at Grantown for £20/day as well, early in the season, I know where I would rather be in March.
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Post by John Gray on Oct 3, 2007 21:42:51 GMT
You can get a day at Grantown for £20/day as well, early in the season, I know where I would rather be in March. Sat by a roaring fire with a glass of finest Spey malt?
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 4, 2007 7:20:15 GMT
Hello John Gray Forres assoc on the Findhorn is a great bit of water, it might requires some study of tides to get the best from it. Also I think it is fly only during the summer months. Meantime Willie Gunn how do you define, "the best Association Water in UK"? Tweedsider
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Post by John Gray on Oct 4, 2007 10:00:58 GMT
Hello John Gray Forres assoc on the Findhorn is a great bit of water, it might requires some study of tides to get the best from it. Also I think it is fly only during the summer months. Meantime Willie Gunn how do you define, "the best Association Water in UK"? Tweedsider Yes, Tweedsider, I've walked a good part of the beat. Some nice pools. Thinking of giving it a go maybe second week in July.
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Post by Tyne Andrew on Oct 4, 2007 10:32:40 GMT
Put it another way, the price differential between local permits and visitor permits at Grantown must be as high as anywhere in the UK, a visitor paying almost three times as much, for his fishing, as a local. In any case, according to my information, a day permit can be had at Fochabers for as little as £20. . You can get a day at Grantown for £20/day as well, early in the season, I know where I would rather be in March. On Park
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 4, 2007 10:42:19 GMT
Andrew I'll give you £20.00 a day and you get me on Park deal?
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 4, 2007 15:00:05 GMT
Come on then Willie Gunn what do you look for in association water> Well strimmed banks? A reasonable price for tickets all round visitors and locals? Good access? No queues down pools? etc.etc?
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 4, 2007 15:51:34 GMT
Come on then Willie Gunn what do you look for in association water> Well strimmed banks? A reasonable price for tickets all round visitors and locals? Good access? No queues down pools? etc.etc? Tweedsider Sorry I have been busy, some of us have work to do you know cannot spend all day stuck to a computer. Yes the above sounds a good start, a good chance of a fish as well. Reasonable rules which allow flyfishers a chance of a fish. Somewhere North of Kingussie obviously otherwise the place is over run with Weegies.
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 4, 2007 15:59:56 GMT
Sounds good Willie, especially if there was some of that on Tweed THE best salmon river anywhere. PS done a little work today.
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Post by Willie Gunn on Oct 4, 2007 16:28:19 GMT
Sounds good Willie, especially if there was some of that on Tweed THE best salmon river anywhere. PS done a little work today. Sorry the Tweed is a canal I will allow you to say THE best salmon canal anywhere , but you cannot call it a river ...............rivers have flow.
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Post by tweedsider on Oct 4, 2007 18:02:12 GMT
Hello Willie if Tweed is a canal give me a share of it anywhere. Mind you if that is the Spey I see from the A9 between Kingussie and Avimore that is a canal. Seriously is there any fishing on this upstream stretch?
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