Posts Tagged ‘Salmon’
Video: Tying the Jock Scott
This isn't really a tutorial video, but I really enjoy watching a craftsman, however young or old, at work! Here we have Torben Kondrup tying the classic Salmon fly, the Jock Scot, at Randers Fly Fair which took place in February of 2010 in, I believe, Denmark. Really beautiful tying here (camera work isn't bad either!). As I've said [...]
Scottish Aquaculture Now Second Only to Beef Farming
A growth of 22% over the past two years in consumption of Scottish farmed salmon has seen Scottish Aquaculture take second place behind only beef farming in Scottish agriculture, ahead of sheep and pig farming , The Times reported on 9 November 2008. The report explains how, in 1980, only 9% of fish consumed came from aquaculture - now it is [...]
An Under-Parr Year?
I read with interest this article, over at the Highland News website in which the author suggests that he has not managed to hook a single salmon parr this year and asks the question whether this is widespread, or just a quirk on his behalf. For my part, I contributed to the conservation efforts this time around by being far too busy to get a [...]
Salmon at Risk From Financial Crisis
A couple of stories have surfaced this week which suggest the future for wild salmon both in North America and Europe may have become less certain as a result of the recent economic slowdown. The economy in the USA slowed down first following the collapase of the sub-prime mortgage market and the resultant folding of several banks. Hundreds of [...]
Birds Eye Launch Wild Salmon Fish Fingers!
Prince Charles' 60th birthday - 14th November 2008 - will b a momentous day for lovers of frozen fish in Great Britain for it is the day planned by Birds Eye for the unveiling of their new "Wild Salmon Fish Fingers". Alongside cod and haddock, these more expensive big brothers - expected to cost £2.49 for a pack of ten fish fingers - are [...]
Report Claims Salmon Can be Damaged by Construction Noise
The Aberdeen newspaper The Press and Journal reported yesterday that "SALMON could be deafened by the construction noise of the proposed Aberdeen bypass" (in their repot "Salmon at risk from noise, probe told"). The objector to proposed developments in Aberdeen, research biologist Tony Hawkins, claimed that salmon were at significant risk of a [...]
Untapped Mayfly Hatch
Yesterday marked the end, at least where I am, of a welcome warm spell in the UK, weather-wise. As a result, we spent the afternoon by my local river, whereupon I witnessed one of the biggest mayfly hatches I've ever seen... and didn't have my rod. In actual fact, as I have neither the permission to fish the stretch of river I was on, nor a UK [...]
