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Fishing & Shooting
The best place to ask about fishing and shooting is at the Bridge Inn, Penton, a couple of miles up the road from Moat Vale. While the pub doesn’t sell tickets or organise trips, the locals usually know a man who does. Worth a blether over a pint of real ale !
Esk & Liddle Fishing
The Border Esk is one of the best sea trout rivers in southern Scotland with much of the fishing available to both local and visiting anglers on a day, weekly or season permit., from £10/day. Best known for its sea trout, the River Esk also has a decent run of salmon in the second half of the season. At one time the Esk and Liddle fishery beats might produce around 5000 sea trout in a season, many of them taken on the night fly during the short summer nights of June and July, with the added bonus, towards the end of the season, of up to 500 salmon. For reasons that are not clear, catches of sea trout on the Border Esk, like those of other Solway rivers, have declined in recent seasons, with the Buccleuch Estate beats now producing somewhere between 500 and 1000 sea trout per season and around 200 salmon.
It is perhaps worth noting here the ongoing controversy over the recent attempts by the English Environment Agency to impose an English rod licence on anglers fishing the Scottish beats of the Border Esk. In protest at this wholly inappropriate, and legally questionable, action by the Environment Agency, many Esk fishers, to their credit, are refusing to take permits on the river, much to the detriment of the river and the local economy. It is to be hoped that a reasonable compromise can be reached on the matter and that normality might soon be restored to this lovely river.
Fishing on the Netherby, Canonbie, Langholm, Newcastleton and Gilnockie Tower beats of the Border Esk and River Liddle, is available.
For information & tickets please contact:
The Willow Pool on the River Esk
World renowned pool on the Famous Border Esk.
Contact Rob Carruthers, 2 Kirkandrews Moat, Longtown, Carlisle.
Tel: 01228 577003
Netherby Beat, River Esk
Christopher Gray,Messrs. Edwin Thompson,Tel: 01228 548385
Email: carlisle@edwin-
Canonbie, Langholm, Newcastleton. Lower Liddle, Irvine House, Cauldron, Willow Pool and Gilnockie Beats
Buccleuch Estates (day, week and seasonal tickets)
http://www.buccleuchsporting.co.uk/public/fishing/salmon/langholm
Canonbie, Langholm, Newcastleton & Lower Liddle Beats
Stevenson & Johnstone,38 High Street, Langholm TEL: 013873 80428
Newcastleton Beat
Holm Hardware,Douglas Square, Newcastleton TEL: 01387 375257
Canonbie & Lower Liddle Beats
Cross Keys Hotel, Canonbie TEL: 01387 371205
Canonbie Post Office (half day closing on WED and SAT) TEL: 01387 371201
Gilnockie Tower & Hollows and Irvine House Beats
Fishpal
http://www.fishpal.com/Scotland/BorderEsk/WhereToFish
http://www.fishpal.com/Scotland/BorderEsk
Fishing Links
Trout and Salmon Fishing
Excellent site with maps and information on trout, salmon and sea trout fishing in Scotland ... Including the Border Esk
http://www.trout-
NewMill Trout Farm, Brampton (Day Tickets available): )http://www.newmillstroutfarm.net/fly_fishing_10.html
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