advice for Scotland hike and camp

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ddave489

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Mar 20, 2014
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Gateshead
Hi all, I'm looking to take a little break in Scotland, I live in Durham and would preferably only want to drive a max of 2 hours. I'd like to be able to park up somewhere, hike for maybe 5/6 miles and then wild camp by a nice loch for a bit of fishing for a cpl of nights before returning. Does anyone have any suggestions for an area, any advice as always would be much appreciated.
 
The Grey Mare's Tail NTS car park north of Moffat is about 120 miles from Durham. Stiff climb by peregrines & wild goats to Loch Skeen, free wild brown trout fishing. May earliest as it's quite high. It's not 5-6 miles' hike, but further on Gameshope Loch will be, tough rough walking, and it has trout too. I camped there in May a couple of years ago, got plenty trout in the evening after a brassy blue-sky day - in the morning the (green) tent was white with frost & the ground frozen. Kept awake by myriad frogs...
 
ay well trout season starts 15th March, but the old adage is, they aren't in shape till the waterside birches' leaves are the size of a mouse's ear = VERY sheltered low-ground lochs/burns... Lots of coarse fishing venues in the Borders though - which I've only read about.
 

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