Some pretty amazing properties along the shoreline too. Quite a contrast to the remnants of the old townships that are scattered along the coast! Cheers, Doug
No shortage of numbers, although a few larger ones would be a bonus! Although, given that Sunart can be terribly dour at times, I really shouldn't complain🙂 Cheers, Doug
The Sunart spurries certainly kept you busy on this trip Doug. Peppered Mackie eh? We might need a workshop video on that🤔 Yet another splendidly presented video of our beautiful country for us to enjoy even without any coverage of your dook in the burn🤭 Many thanks for making the effort to shoot, edit and post your trip and best wishes for Christmas and tight lines for 2025.
Hi Charlie, I got off lightly with my wild swimming - normally I'd have a camera recording us struggling to put up the big tent, and would feel obliged to broadcast my humiliation. This time we were in a hurry 'cos the rain came on quite hard and everything was getting soaked, so I didn't have time to sort out a tripod. Mind you, if I'd been Trev I'd have whipped out my phone and started recording asap 🤣🤣 Have a good Christmas yourself and maybe we'll bump into you down in Galloway sometime nearer the summer solstice! Cheers, Doug
@@Corkwing-DougK Thanks Doug. I've always hoped to bump into you again but I think I only managed three brief stays down SW this year due to the poor weather. Let's hope 2025 is a lot calmer....
Same here - I think we managed a 3 day trip in early June, but even then the weather was only good on one day. Horrible NW winds for weeks on end! Fingers crossed for 2025!
I used to fish Sunart for a few days over the winter most years but kind of fell out the habit around covid time. You're right - it holds some very nice skate, spurs and conger, but it can also be a very hard place to track 'em down. It's a beautiful place to try though🙂 Cheers, Doug
I remember driving up the side of Sunart a few years ago , I couldn’t find anywhere to fish from the shore , I ended up away out at the lighthouse at Ardnamurchan !
There are a few places you can access the shore from the road but it's years since I last tried and I've nearly always fished from a boat. Some decent spurdog do get caught from the shore though. Cheers, Doug
Well done on catching so many fish both of you, it must have been the special bait that did the trick. Try & get the acrobatics on camera next time though. Thanks for posting.
Do you ever burn coal on your tent stove? Wonder if you got a bag of brickets from a shop and smashed them down a bit it would g8ve you heat for longer? I've been picking up bits of washed up coal on a local beach that still burns and saving it for a camp fire, also got a couple of coleman/Tilley lamps for the same thing and planning to see if will keep the midges away. Bit theÿ would be good for a source of warmth in the winter as well plus I've just got an adaptor to turn the coleman stove into a heater so hopefully that works well. Anyway looks like your getting more success than me with fishing!
Hi Davy, I've never tried coal on the stove although we did plonk some peat on earlier this year. It did keep going for several hours but didn't give off much heat. I can also vaguely remember someone else wrote about coal and finding that it could work but you needed a grate inside the stove in order to get better airflow under the fuel. The only thing to watch with sea coal is that it can be a bit sparky, so I'd be wary using it near a tent. I used to have a Chinese knock-off of a Tilley lamp and it was both bright and warm, but also pretty temperamental - not sure it would do much for midges though, as I think it's the wood smoke they dislike. Good fun experimenting though! Cheers, Doug
@@Corkwing-DougK some of the wick based lanterns can burn citronella so going to try that as well I think, was hoping that the flame from the lanterns would attract the critters and burn them when they got too close
Brilliant vid Doug 👍 though too manu druggies 😁
Ahhhhhh lovely stuff Doug! What a place to live, absolutely beautiful ❤❤
Some pretty amazing properties along the shoreline too. Quite a contrast to the remnants of the old townships that are scattered along the coast!
Cheers, Doug
Good stuff again doug always a good watch
Glad you enjoyed it - we'd a few good laughs on this trip, mainly at my expense🙂
Cheers, Doug
Nice video, plenty of Spurs on that trip. Thanks for sharing. Phil
No shortage of numbers, although a few larger ones would be a bonus! Although, given that Sunart can be terribly dour at times, I really shouldn't complain🙂
Cheers, Doug
The Sunart spurries certainly kept you busy on this trip Doug.
Peppered Mackie eh? We might need a workshop video on that🤔
Yet another splendidly presented video of our beautiful country for us to enjoy even without any coverage of your dook in the burn🤭
Many thanks for making the effort to shoot, edit and post your trip and best wishes for Christmas and tight lines for 2025.
Hi Charlie, I got off lightly with my wild swimming - normally I'd have a camera recording us struggling to put up the big tent, and would feel obliged to broadcast my humiliation. This time we were in a hurry 'cos the rain came on quite hard and everything was getting soaked, so I didn't have time to sort out a tripod. Mind you, if I'd been Trev I'd have whipped out my phone and started recording asap 🤣🤣
Have a good Christmas yourself and maybe we'll bump into you down in Galloway sometime nearer the summer solstice!
Cheers, Doug
@@Corkwing-DougK Thanks Doug.
I've always hoped to bump into you again but I think I only managed three brief stays down SW this year due to the poor weather. Let's hope 2025 is a lot calmer....
Same here - I think we managed a 3 day trip in early June, but even then the weather was only good on one day. Horrible NW winds for weeks on end! Fingers crossed for 2025!
Another fine video Doug plenty fish and flat seas what more could you ask for
Definitely a fine couple of days - and with some great autumn colours chucked in for free👍
Cheers, Doug
excellent mate , sunnart has produced some nice fish oer the years
I used to fish Sunart for a few days over the winter most years but kind of fell out the habit around covid time. You're right - it holds some very nice skate, spurs and conger, but it can also be a very hard place to track 'em down. It's a beautiful place to try though🙂
Cheers, Doug
@Corkwing-DougK 👊 have a great xmas dougie 😎
I remember driving up the side of Sunart a few years ago , I couldn’t find anywhere to fish from the shore , I ended up away out at the lighthouse at Ardnamurchan !
There are a few places you can access the shore from the road but it's years since I last tried and I've nearly always fished from a boat. Some decent spurdog do get caught from the shore though.
Cheers, Doug
Agreed I've done the same looking for deep water in close
Well done on catching so many fish both of you, it must have been the special bait that did the trick. Try & get the acrobatics on camera next time though. Thanks for posting.
🙂Just remember, next time it might be you doing the acrobatics...The cameras will definitely be rolling in that case!
Cheers, Doug
Do you ever burn coal on your tent stove? Wonder if you got a bag of brickets from a shop and smashed them down a bit it would g8ve you heat for longer? I've been picking up bits of washed up coal on a local beach that still burns and saving it for a camp fire, also got a couple of coleman/Tilley lamps for the same thing and planning to see if will keep the midges away. Bit theÿ would be good for a source of warmth in the winter as well plus I've just got an adaptor to turn the coleman stove into a heater so hopefully that works well.
Anyway looks like your getting more success than me with fishing!
Hi Davy, I've never tried coal on the stove although we did plonk some peat on earlier this year. It did keep going for several hours but didn't give off much heat. I can also vaguely remember someone else wrote about coal and finding that it could work but you needed a grate inside the stove in order to get better airflow under the fuel. The only thing to watch with sea coal is that it can be a bit sparky, so I'd be wary using it near a tent. I used to have a Chinese knock-off of a Tilley lamp and it was both bright and warm, but also pretty temperamental - not sure it would do much for midges though, as I think it's the wood smoke they dislike. Good fun experimenting though!
Cheers, Doug
@@Corkwing-DougK some of the wick based lanterns can burn citronella so going to try that as well I think, was hoping that the flame from the lanterns would attract the critters and burn them when they got too close