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'his repellent stopped him being bit too badly' yes but he had a head net. with only repellent on midge can find the uncovered areas, the rim of your eyelids, between your eyelashes .. he's also wearing a goretext suit to prevent access points, but without that suit elasticated around wrists...

Was in harris/lewis last week, midges were mental. fking mental. wee bams won , drove me delirious and i stepped on my fishing rod. snap £50 of midge damage. I'm no scared o the scottish tourist board mafia i'm sending them the bill, contract killers are nothing compared to midge hell .. that...

i've never had any luck with dexters, shame cos theyre nice and cheap and good casting. i like to have a silver-blue toby with a bit of orange or red and a floating rapala blue and silver. guess i'm sticking with colors i like rather than what the fish like but as long as i believe they'll...

its Atlantic or 'Silver' salmon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_salmon i use simple light tackle, usually spinning a silver mepps size 2 , typically salmon are about 5 - 15 lb (2 - 7 kilo) . i fish small rivers and lochs and the game is to work upriver casting into the pools trying to...

my rods are 4 peice and wee bit long for a proper back pack rod but i've found the eyes need to be strong, well bound on and not easily bent. a travel rod gets a lot of beating about (or carried in an extra tube which adds weight)

loch ken, dumfries these things sound like bad news though, they might be strict on catching them becuase of possibility of spreading to other places ...

depends what theyre eating ... muddy tasting trout i ate once was caught after a spate, other fish from same river never tasted so muddy, so maybe eating earth filled worms?

jack (small) pike i tried once was horrible ...

thats some fish mon .. looks like a lot of drying work! in scotland they (very) rarely come that big, but still a 5 kilo/ 11pounds odds fish, or a few trout is more than i want eat in a day and would be good to know a quick and easy drying method. hanging it over a fire seems simplest...

thanks folks for the local recommends i sealed a tarptent with the sealant sent with the tarptent. how to video quoted below @PDA1 is a good how to. i worried about getting right stuff for material but after sealing my impression was the sealant could be used on a variety of materials and...

done some cycling in morocco, gambia , guinea bissau (bijagos islands) and ghana. my thoughts ... heat always an issue, good if you can lie up between 12-4pm . i carried too much repair kit first time round, better for me to use the local bike repair shops and keep it lighter weight, there...

wading in late with this, but ... i used (and still have) palladiums (pampa i think) for a senegal/guinea bissau trip couple of year ago. trip report here http://kayakwestafrica.wordpress.com/ . very good as an all round hot weather shoe, wanders in the bush, beach, kayaking (mostly, not good...

peices are better than telescopes; shimano make great rods but if you're short on cash you might want to consider investing more on a decent reel.

i doubt on the Tay Estuary anyone would say anything about a static line on this level apart from just be interested, and certainly not look to prosecute/fine you. you could try Eden mouth for small flounder too, they'll swallow anything... and you might get a fishcake outta couple o them ...

if there is red tide (there was in west scotland / inner hebrides a few years ago) you'll see the signs/hear the news. myself i'd be looking to collect mussels from clean (less sewage) shores too but i've never gone to the trouble of soaking them in fresh water first (although it sounds good...

i just started using braid over the last couple of years, spiderwire i think. my experience is i need to use more swivels when spinning and give the line time to 'unspin' itself every so often to avoid tangles. it had been good, definitely feels stronger at first, good for salt, and means i can...

thoughts for end of civilisation survival fishing -- fish like bait and it's easier to find as needed, worms in the hills, mussels on the shore; good all round bait for catching something big enough is small fish (eg minnows) and you can net, hook or trap these as needed. chuck in a couple of...

in Scotland handlining for brown trout on rivers and lochs away from the roads should be fine, as long as it looks like you're fishing rather than poaching, eg if there's bait on the hook . 'Snagging' , jerking a naked treble hook through the water to foul hook fish, is generally frowned upon -...

aye, spinning for seatrout is class crack ... for me it's a mepps no1 or 2 that does the damage, spun fast downstream with the current ...

Catch and release varies and IMHO at the end of the day is really down to your own morality ... any water that is specifically requesting catch and release probably has a good reason to do so as illustrated above. In particular in Scotland numbers of sea trout and salmon have been (dangerously)...