Post by banffie on Sept 15, 2015 18:34:21 GMT
CASTS ON THE DEE AND SPEY
by Iain D Ogden price £20 + p&p
enquiries to alta303@gmail.com or see: gwgunn.wordpress.com/book/
back cover reads:
Iain Ogden first began fishing for salmon while studying at Aberdeen University in the early 1970s. As a microbial biochemist in an Aberdeen Fisheries Research Laboratory he bought and renovated an old cottage on the Drum estate where he met and fished regularly with the late Archie Davidson – renowned ghillie on the Middle Drum beat of the Aberdeenshire Dee.
The die of pursuing wild salmon with rod and line having been firmly cast he began fishing several times a week on the prestigious waters at Tilbouries and Park as a guest of their owners. Here he was witness to the last of the great spring runs on rivers covered in ‘grue’ where double figure catches were commonplace; and sporting Lairds who gladly shared stories of even greater days when some estate totals repeatedly exceeded 1,000 springers annually.
Inevitably, his passion for catching salmon led to the banks of many other Scottish rivers including the Spey, Deveron and Findhorn, and the Alta, Gaula and Orkla in Norway. He has now landed more than 1,000 salmon to his own rod.
This book details a personal account of the casts, characters, traditions and wildlife encountered while fishing these classic rivers, and gives a rare insight into the way traditional salmon angling was conducted before the days of breathable waders, baseball caps and mass-marketing.
Other trifles include:
•the record Dee catch of 66 fish on each of two consecutive days in March 1963
•the story behind WG Craven’s 53lbs record Spey fish in the long lost Dallachy pool
•Henrik Henrikson’s 9 hour fight with the world record 79lb Atlantic salmon from the mighty River Tana in northern Norway
•the legend of the universally popular Willie Gunn fly
•intricacies of getting to fish the fabled Alta
•how many Professors can fish a mile long stretch of the Dee?
•does DTD stand for ‘Dailuaine Talisker Distillery’ or ‘Don’t Touch Drink’?
•from Rogart to Altnabreac – wilderness journeys by train
•how much alcohol can you inject into a melon?
•recipe for gravlaks (dilled salmon)
•fate of freshwater mussels stranded post flood-events
•stripping salmon and male precocious parr at the Girnock fish trap
by Iain D Ogden price £20 + p&p
enquiries to alta303@gmail.com or see: gwgunn.wordpress.com/book/
back cover reads:
Iain Ogden first began fishing for salmon while studying at Aberdeen University in the early 1970s. As a microbial biochemist in an Aberdeen Fisheries Research Laboratory he bought and renovated an old cottage on the Drum estate where he met and fished regularly with the late Archie Davidson – renowned ghillie on the Middle Drum beat of the Aberdeenshire Dee.
The die of pursuing wild salmon with rod and line having been firmly cast he began fishing several times a week on the prestigious waters at Tilbouries and Park as a guest of their owners. Here he was witness to the last of the great spring runs on rivers covered in ‘grue’ where double figure catches were commonplace; and sporting Lairds who gladly shared stories of even greater days when some estate totals repeatedly exceeded 1,000 springers annually.
Inevitably, his passion for catching salmon led to the banks of many other Scottish rivers including the Spey, Deveron and Findhorn, and the Alta, Gaula and Orkla in Norway. He has now landed more than 1,000 salmon to his own rod.
This book details a personal account of the casts, characters, traditions and wildlife encountered while fishing these classic rivers, and gives a rare insight into the way traditional salmon angling was conducted before the days of breathable waders, baseball caps and mass-marketing.
Other trifles include:
•the record Dee catch of 66 fish on each of two consecutive days in March 1963
•the story behind WG Craven’s 53lbs record Spey fish in the long lost Dallachy pool
•Henrik Henrikson’s 9 hour fight with the world record 79lb Atlantic salmon from the mighty River Tana in northern Norway
•the legend of the universally popular Willie Gunn fly
•intricacies of getting to fish the fabled Alta
•how many Professors can fish a mile long stretch of the Dee?
•does DTD stand for ‘Dailuaine Talisker Distillery’ or ‘Don’t Touch Drink’?
•from Rogart to Altnabreac – wilderness journeys by train
•how much alcohol can you inject into a melon?
•recipe for gravlaks (dilled salmon)
•fate of freshwater mussels stranded post flood-events
•stripping salmon and male precocious parr at the Girnock fish trap