CONTENTS

HOME PAGE

FORUMS & NEWS

CASTING TUITION

TACKLE SHOP

BARRIO TACKLE

BARRIO FLY LINES

BARRIO FLY ROD

THE LOCHS

INTRODUCTION

HADDO FISHERY

DELGATIE CASTLE

MILL OF ELRICK

MIDMAR FISHERY

ARTLOCH FISHERY

LOCHTER FISHERY

RAEMOIR FISHERY

LOCH INSCH

GLEN TANAR LOCH

BRAESIDE FISHERY

MOSSAT FISHERY

GLEN OF ROTHES

RIVER DON

INTRODUCTION

FISHING BEATS

TROUT TACTICS

TROUT FLIES

WHERE TO STAY

RIVER DON OPENING

RIVER DON HATCHERY

KILDRUMMY FISHINGS

MONYMUSK FISHINGS

FETTERNEAR FISHINGS

SEMEIL FISHINGS

INVERURIE FISHINGS

CASTLE FORBES

ALFORD FISHINGS

KINTORE FISHINGS

COLQUHONNIE

GLENKINDIE

ARDMURDO KEITHALL

MANAR FISHINGS

TACKLE & PERMITS

PLUS

A FEW VIDEOS

FISHING LINKS

FLY FISHING BOOKS

CONTACT

MIKE BARRIO

The Fly Line Shop : Home base for the Barrio Fly Lines mail order service.

Paul Procter Fly Fishing : Excellent website and journal by the enthusiastic wild brown trout river fly fisher, Paul Procter. Covering all manner of flies, watercraft, fly tying, fly presentation and casting techniques.

Christian Strixner - Split Cane Fly Rods :Christian's fly rods are simply awesome works of art. If you have dreamed of fishing with split cane, make sure you visit his excellent website!

David Norwich : The world's lightest graphite fly rods …….. hand crafted in Scotland.
"No more compromise ….. the quest for performance starts here"

Will Shaw Fly Casting Tuition : "Line Slinger" Will offers fly fishing and fly casting instruction in Edinburgh, the Lothians and Scotland. Excellent, qualified tuition that I fully recommend.

Fly Casting France : Flycasting, cheese and a certain way of life. I have had the pleasure of meeting and casting with Marc Fauvet a few times now, an awesome presentation caster!

The River Don Trust : The website of the River Don District Salmon Fishery Board and the River Don Trust.

Fishing in Scotland : A comprehensive listing of game fishing in Scotland by Les Brandie. An excellent and very popular website which now includes fishing holidays and pike fishing.

Highland Wild Trout Angling : Lesley Crawford is a well known writer of angling books and articles. Her new website covering the Northern Highlands includes guided fishing holidays and lots of excellent fly fishing information and tactics to help you catch a trout or two. 

Grays of Kilsyth : Scottish trout, salmon and sea trout fishing flies, plus fly fishing stories, pictures, knots, books, new fly patterns, salmon recipes and information on fly fishing in Scotland.

Irish Ladies Flyfishing Association : The Association organises fishing and social events throughout the year all over the country and helps to fund a team to compete in the Ladies International, against teams from England, Scotland and Wales.

Trout and Salmon Fishing in Scotland : Information on trout, salmon and sea trout fishing in Scotland featuring maps, tackle, tactics, flies, articles, knots, books and recipes.

Fly Fishing and Fly Tying Magazine : The best trout and salmon fly fishing magazine available in the UK, and it is published in Scotland!

Raemoir Trout Fishery : Raemoir Trout Fishery is located in Banchory and the website includes plenty of useful information covering this popular stillwater.

Mike Shay Custom Bamboo Fly Rods : Mike Shay is a custom bamboo rod builder in the States. I have had a few casts with one of his fly rods, very impressive!

Fly and Coarse Fishing Tackle : Norwood Angling Centre is a Fishing Tackle shop in South East London with over 40 years experience. All tackle can be purchased from their extensive online shop.

Fly Fishing in South Wales : Gareth Lewis's excellent website detailing his fly fishing exploits on the River Taff and beyond

Yorkshire Dales Flyfishing : Fly fishing in North Yorkshire with Stuart Minnikin on some of the finest wild brown trout and grayling rivers in the UK.

Pontoon Boats and Float Tubes : Highland Ventures is based on the shores of Loch Earn in Perthshire and is committed to introducing new and exciting products to the UK market

Annandale Fly Fishing : Keith Snow offers fly fishing and guiding in South West Scotland, with full time professional fly fishing instruction based at the Annandale and Borders Fly Fishing School on the River Annan.

Orkney Trout Fishing Association : This site gives a comprehensive guide to the trout fishing lochs of the Orkney Islands and a full insight to the Orkney Trout Fishing Association.

Speycaster : A website aimed at fly fishers interested in Salmon fishing, speycasting, fishing courses, holidays, wildlife and recreation throughout the River Spey system.

Morayflyfisher : Based in Scotland, Kevin Moss offers you some great flies and fly tying materials.

Robin Ade : Renowned Scottish fish artist, author and angler.

TroutQuest Fly fishing holidays for wild brown trout, sea trout and salmon based in Ross-shire. Guided fly fishing excursions throughout Ross-shire, Caithness and Sutherland. STANIC qualified instruction in casting and fishing for trout.

SalmonQuest Salmon fishing lets and salmon fishing holidays in the Northern Highlands.

The Highlander Way : A Quirky traditional fly fishers site by Alan Goodwin. A very interesting website to explore.

Somers Fishing Tackle : Aberdeen's leading fishing tackle and country clothing store, from House of Hardy to Shakespeare products always in stock.

The British Float Tube Association : Promoting float tubing throughout the UK.

Artloch Fishery : Artloch Fishery was re-opened in October 2003 after extensive renovation. It offers almost 5 acres of bank trout fly-fishing in a peaceful setting on the edge of the Highlands in Grampian, 3 miles outside Huntly

The Beauly Angling Club : Scottish club website with fishing information covering the River Beauly and news, competitions etc for members.

SANA : The Scottish Anglers National Association

Fishing Net : An excellent well designed site with a vast range of Scottish trout and salmon fly fishing information on it.

Fly Fishing Venues UK : This site offers a comprehensive and accurate guide to places where you can fly fish on lakes, rivers and streams in the UK.

ARTiFLY : "Art for the Angler" in various forms, from specialist mail order trout flies to framed collections and original landscape paintings. ARTiFLY is based in Inverness.

Sea Trout Fishing Forums : Public discussion forum featuring news, information, opinion and debate on all matters relating to sea trout fishing.

Spinfish : The on-line magazine for Spey casting tuition and fly fishing for salmon, brown trout and sea trout on the river Spey, in the Highlands of Scotland. Incorporating the Charlie Whelan "no spinning" Residential Spey Casting Course.

David Miller Fish & Wildlife Art : Fine art fish and wildlife paintings & prints. This is one of my favourite websites on the internet, the fish paintings are beautiful and not to be missed.

Rackelhanen Flyfishing Magazine : An excellent fly fishing web magazine based in Sweden. Lots of great fly content with versions in Swedish and English.

Fish and Fly : The online home of fly fishing in the UK and Europe. A great e-zine style website with lots of good content.

Angling News  : Lots of information and fishing reports to see here!

Alness Fishing An information resource for salmon and trout fishing on the River Alness, including details of each beat and the latest availability and pricing on the Novar beats.

Conon Fishing An information resource for salmon and trout fishing on the River Conon, including details of each beat and in some cases the latest availability and pricing.

Go Fishing : The UK gateway to worldwide fishing. This is a really good fishing directory with hundreds of fishing links for you to choose from.

Trout and Seasons of The Mountain Village in Japan : A very interesting, artistic and original website by Yoshikazu Fujioka offering information about trout fishing in Japan. If you have problems catching trout? Try downloading instructions on how to make them from paper!

Fishing Guides Home Page : Fishing guide directory for the United States and Great Britain. A great website with links to fishing guides throughout the world.

Top Trout : Check out this great website which offers bass bags, filleting knives, freezer bags, all sorts of accessories and tips on what to do with your trout, including recipes.

The Fly Fishing Journal : An online database with hundreds of fly fishing locations and an online journal where users can record and share their fishing memories and photographs.

ProBass Fishing : The complete bass fisherman's resource. This is an awesome website, far too much to list, but check out the lake reports, pro tips and message boards.

Frandy Fishery : Frandy is a fly fishing upland reservoir based in the picturesque Ochil hills on Gleneagles Estate, Perthshire, Scotland. Fly fishing for rainbow, brown & blue trout in Scotland at its very best

Ocean Flies : The UK's premiere saltwater fly fishing site, including a selection of saltwater flies that have been tried and tested, they catch fish!

Lets Fly Fish : Have you fished the world famous Ally's Shrimp? Want to learn more about fly fishing from the man who created the fly? Don't miss Ally Gowans's website which is full of useful fly fishing tips and information plus guided fishing holidays.

The Milton Restaurant : The Milton Restaurant at Crathes on Deeside. Where metropolitan levels of food and service meet traditional Scottish hospitality.

The Trinity Gask Fishing Syndicate covers approximately 5 miles of excellent Salmon & Sea Trout fishing on the River Earn near Auchterarder, Scotland

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