|
|
|||||||
Great video of a husband and wife team trying collect a McNab. Superb HD footage and amazing scenery. My 9 year old daughter and I just watched it and she really enjoyed it as well, particularly the beautiful guns and clothing that match the surroundings. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z888vycb5FE Waidmannsheil. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
excellent video |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Very enjoyable, I loved the book, must re-read it. I always thought the Salmon part would be the toughest ! best Mike |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
A very hard challenge to be completed within 12 hours very nice video. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
I guessed it might be Simon and Selena Barr. Both online acquaintances of mine. Simon along with Marc Newton sends us some of the images for the Rigby firearms we see on here from time to time. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Quote: +1 Ripp |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Thank you for posting that. Excellent. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Great video, thanks for posting. Different countries have various versions of the McNab, in Australia we could fish for a Murray Cod, shoot a brace of Black Ducks and bag a Kangaroo (all under the appropriate licences/tags of course). Cheers |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Quote: Mike, what is the name of the book, I would be keen to read it myself. Waidmannsheil. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Wonderful video, the essence of Scotland. When hunting roebuck on the Dee side, I used to visit the salmon station where guys are counting the salmons swimming upstream. It wasn't very engaging, though the Royal family is fishing this river, from their castle of Balmoral on the Dee river. Getting a salmon was clearly not a day affair, but a week affair. I fully agree that one has first to catch a salmon. Shooting grouse is very easy, any ghilly worth his salt can bring You to a patch teaming with grouses. One hour affair. Shooting a stag is all about your legs and lungs. Should a spotter inform You where to go, if You can walk and remain stealthy it could be a 1-4 hour affair. The McNab remains a tough challenge. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Firstly Waidmannsheil, sorry for delay, didn´t see your question. Here is the amazon link to the book http://www.amazon.co.uk/John-Macnab-Buch...ords=the+macnab Larcher, you are dead right! I have an aquaintance who has been going to Scotland for 10 years now and takes a week on the Tay or one of the others each year. This costs him a bloody fortune. He has yet to catch a salmon !!! Bloody madness if you ask me, you can go to the pacific coast of the US or Canada at the right time and catch 2 or 3 different species of salmon in a day ! I have mentioned this in the UK before and some people get very "sniffy".."Thats not an Atlantic salmon" they will say !? Ok, I reply, go to Norway, at least you have a fair chance and they ARE Atlantic salmon. They still look at you funny. I´ll never understand fishing snobbery, oh well. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Mike You nail it. I also hunted along the famous Tay river. I don't want to rain on our Brit close friends' parade, but getting a salmon in Scotland is tough, very tough. Most of the french opt for Ireland. The only try I had on salmon was in Alaska, and no bargaining at all, I was in an indisputed paradise. That's why renders the McNab tougher than captain Achab's white whale. That's why we love the Brits. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
One more thing Larcher, the state of Salmon fishing in Scotland when the book was written (1920's I think) was FAR different to the state it is now. Not sure when it started to decline, early '70s I guess, best |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Thanks Mike, I did some researching and thought that was the book and as you have confirmed it I will have to get myself a copy. Thanks again. Waidmannsheil. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
Unfortunately for some of the steams in BC, we are getting Atlantic's. There is a huge salmon farm industry up and down our coast growning Atlantic Salmon for the supermarket industry. They are kept in pens - trouble is, seals eat salmon and the seals break into the pens to fee, ripping them apart. The surviving escapees then revert to nature and have started running in some of the streams on Vancouver Island and along the coast. Most of the steams along the coast are inaccessible by land. We are requested to kill any Atlantic Salmon caught in streams and to send the head in to the Ministry of the Environment so they can see where it came from - apparently they all have a tracking wire injected into their heads. If we didn't already have fulls streams of spawning 'salmonids', I would have welcomed the Atlantic Salmon. They are very similar to our Steelhead, a sea-run rainbow trout, in that they can return to spawn in the rivers and survive, perhaps 4 times. That is why we have the odd Steelhead that runs well over 35 pounds - records caught on the fly run 43pounds, IIRC. My 'best' was 26 pounds on a genuine spey rod. |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
I hate salmon farming with a vengeance, the fish taste like s**t, which is what they are since they spend their lives in pens eating their own excreta. But the public demand for this watery rubbish is so high it makes sense. A wild, rod caught salmon will now cost you well over GBP120 in London for about a 12lbér..if you can find one. Tragic to me |
||||||||
|
|
|||||||
The fact it may be that much more difficult makes the gaining of it today that much more of a challenge and valuable as a personal achievement. IMO. |