[Hamish Young]

*** rubs eyes***

OK, so it's a feather we're looking for.
The eponymous Ghillie is the bit that's a wee bit grey to me.... I'm thinking the Ghillies surname is eponymous with either a fly or the feather in question - that suggests to me the material link between the editor of an angling magazine and what we're looking for must be the same as the Ghillie to be eponymous
My fevered brain suggests the thing to do is to suggest the Ghillie and the rest will follow.

Hamish exits stage right and goes to drink more coffee and look for thinking cap

H 

[Hamish Young]

OK, have had some more coffee.

I think the Ghillie (and eponymous fly) is Jock Scott, what the specific feather is still bugging me and so is the editor of a fishing magazine who had the largest bag of salmon from a loch.

Regardless, I think the Jock Scott is the probable link so I'll plump for the material to be mallard or jungle cock.

H 

[Peter McCallum]

OK, have had some more coffee.

I think the Ghillie (and eponymous fly) is Jock Scott, what the specific feather is still bugging me and so is the editor of a fishing magazine who had the largest bag of salmon from a loch.

Regardless, I think the Jock Scott is the probable link so I'll plump for the material to be mallard or jungle cock.

H 

Oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo he's hit the crossbar!!!! so close. 

One more go before I give the answer big chap??

Think wing and Ian Wood

[Hamish Young]

Wood Duck 

[Peter McCallum]

An interesyting idea and I can see the relationship. I was thining of white tipped turkey - the wing of the 'Ian Wood' fly which held the record catch of salmon on loch lomomd and the underwing of the Jock Scott.

your answer is close enough. Over to you Hamish

[Hamish Young]

Cool 

Right then (rubs chin, scratches head).... errrrrr.....

Who am I

OK. I wrote one book on the life of salmon, based on my own experiences which was a best seller in its time.
I started my business at 18 years old and although there is no longer a family link the fishing tackle business I established it is still on the go to this day. In its time my fishing tackle shop was something of a Mecca for salmon and trout anglers in my particular part of Scotland and for a time we built our own rods and reels.

So..... who am I

H

[bordertroot]

A wee guess at P.D.Malloch 

Bob

[Hamish Young]

Yup 

Over to you Bob

H 

[Allan Liddle]

A wee bit of a joker whilst waiting for Bob and one left unanswered on the 'Where's This?' thread (posted thanks to Jim's senior moment 


OK I'll go for something a bit different, Fly Fishing and its and its occasional paranormal manifestations.

Hugh Falkus wrote "Often I know beforehand I am going to catch a fish " that he attributed to Extra sensory perception.

Ian wood in 1957 called it the anglers extra sense.

Who am I quoting on the same subject ?

"It is as if there were some magnetic influence in the angler's confidence, which disposes the Salmon to take the fly

[Mike Barrio]

Hmmm ....... no response, do we get a clue or two Allan?

Cheers
Mike

[Jim Eddie]

He wrote what some consider the best fishing book ever written, Britsh Arisotocrat and Foreign Secratary 

 

Jim

[Peter McCallum]

viscount gray of falloden

[Jim Eddie]

Close Peter 

Its Viscount Grey of Falloden

 

Jim

[Peter McCallum]

What is the next line of this poem

Let the Purist rejoice in the fly that he dries,
And look down on my practice with hauteur,
But for me the surprise
Of the flash of the rise........

[Fadpasser]

What is the next line of this poem

Let the Purist rejoice in the fly that he dries,
And look down on my practice with hauteur,
But for me the surprise
Of the flash of the rise........

Is it "with a hole in my liberty bodice" ?

[Peter McCallum]

 

In the immortal words of Roy Walker.... it's good, but it's not right

[Fadpasser]

What is the next line of this poem

Let the Purist rejoice in the fly that he dries,
And look down on my practice with hauteur,
But for me the surprise
Of the flash of the rise........

The rosy brown wink under water
G.E.M. Skues

[Peter McCallum]

Corrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrecta

[Fadpasser]

Yeeesss, finally got one, OK heres mine,   Loch fad on the Isle of Bute lies in the highland fault line, following the line west what is the next loch you come across ? 

[Allan Liddle]

Loch Quine, or Quin or something like that? (Or in other words the broon troot water that lies at the far end of Fad?)

Given that answer it's obvious i haven't looked it up on Google 

Allan

[Fadpasser]

Loch Quine, or Quin or something like that? (Or in other words the broon troot water that lies at the far end of Fad?)

Given that answer it's obvious i haven't looked it up on Google 

Allan

close enough, Loch Quien over to you 

[Allan Liddle]

Thanks 

Ok there are 13 waters (actually there's a couple more but first 13 will do) on the Orkney mainland worthy of the anglers serious attention.  Name them.

[Hamish Young]

I went up to Orkney once when I was a kid (maybe 9 or 10 years old ) for a fortnight - had mumps the first week
But I remember fishing:
Stenness
Harray
Swannay
Boardhouse
Another wee loch which I don't recall.
So there's four of them

H 

[Allan Liddle]

I went up to Orkney once when I was a kid (maybe 9 or 10 years old ) for a fortnight - had mumps the first week
But I remember fishing:
Stenness
Harray
Swannay
Boardhouse
Another wee loch which I don't recall.
So there's four of them

H 

I'll give you three of them Hamish. 

[the water buoys]

       Harray ,Boardhouse,Stenness,Swannay,Isbirster,Hundland,
       Skaill,Kirberster,Wasdale,Clumly.These are the ones i have fished,
        plus a few more.

         Henry