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Norway: Join the CountryClubuk Salmon Fishing Party in the footsteps of the ‘Salmon Lords’ on one of the world’s great rivers, the Namsen, for a prime-time week

Posted on by Julie Spencer
08
Nov

British salmon fishers discovered the virtues of Norway’s great River Namsen in the 1830s, and named it ‘Queen of the Rivers’. Reports of record catches and huge salmon spread among distinguished fishers, magnetising an increasing number of titled anglers known as the ‘Salmon Lords’. Today the Namsen remains one of the most productive salmon rivers […]

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William B Currie: Game fishing, the icy quest for Spring Salmon

Posted on by Julie Spencer
25
Jan

The fly-rod is a key to scenes unsurpassed in any other sport. As the hardy spring salmon exponents return to the rivers, marvel again at the hope, the expectation, and, most of all, the fish. Across more than 40 years, Dr William B Currie enriched the game fishing world with his writings on salmon, salmon […]

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The ultimate in game fishing—chance to catch a wild spring salmon, fresh from the sea, on perhaps the most prestigious beat on the famous Aberdeenshire Dee: four-night long weekend for a family or friends: successfully concluded

Posted on by Julie Spencer
03
Jan

We offer the ultimate opportunity in game fishing—to catch a wild spring salmon, fresh from the sea. And we do so on perhaps the most prestigious beat on the famous Aberdeenshire Dee–Park. In the bountiful past a flyfishing trip to Park in spring was ‘dead-man’s shoes’ and we are fortunate to have been able to […]

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Fish for salmon on the South Tyne on a private beat in one of the loveliest river valleys in England

Posted on by Julie Spencer
04
Jul

Enjoy salmon fishing on a private estate on one of Britain’s finest salmon rivers. This is a great opportunity to enjoy double bank fishing on a private estate on the prolific South Tyne.   The upper South Tyne valley is one of the loveliest valleys in England to fish, and is certainly one of the […]

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Norway: Home to big mountains, big rivers and big salmon! Join us for the CountryClubuk salmon fishing trip of 2020

Posted on by Julie Spencer
09
Jan

Norway has always been the home of big Atlantic salmon and the rivers of northern Norway in particular keep on producing these incredible record-breaking fish. And unlike Scotland of recent years, the salmon numbers are holding up too—especially here in the pristine far north, beyond the Arctic Circle. Our salmon fishing consultants Colin Bradshaw and […]

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William B Currie: Salmon fishing on Spey

Posted on by Julie Spencer
29
May

Any chance to fish the River Spey is exciting, but for me this visit is also a pilgrimage. Memory was stirred. Returning to Spey at such a time of hope felt like a mission of discovery. Were the recent spring and summer improvements merely a flash in the pan, or signs of radical and long […]

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William B Currie: The River Tyne, and all that it means

Posted on by Julie Spencer
04
Apr

The chance of a visit to the Tyne is not to be missed. To add extra spice to the prospect, my friend called to say that the word from the lower river was of a good run of early salmon. Being by nature an opportunist, I drove down over a wet and windy Carter Bar, […]

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