Oban

[blackrat]

Any one got any info on shots/tactics/species around the Oban area. Off up there for a week on Sat with my lads and a few mates.
hoping to even hire a boat and try for the skate.

[flatheed]

Your best bet is to go to the Sealife Centre and then you might have an outside chance!!

[blackrat]

you need to get out more Ray...oh forgot your lass wont let yer ha ha

[Hadji Kareem]

Should you be skating at your age? Remember old age brings on brittle bones

[flatheed]

I think I know why your interested in the skate!

[RobAdair]

Unless things have changed for the better, which I doubt, I was up there in 1993 and it was fished out as far as shore fishing goes.

I had a cottage at Kilmichael Glassary in Lochgilphead and fished Loch Fyne, Loch Crinnan and all the way around the Mull of Kintyre, including really out of the way places such as Loch Sween and never had so much as a nibble.

Places of interest for a lads weekend away are the Tayvallich Inn pub and restaurant on the banks of Loch Sween which serves the best seafood I've ever tasted and also does an Aberdeen Angus beef curry which is to die for. Distillery tours at Oban and Campbelltown were OK with plenty of free samples.

If fishing is the primary goal though, I would jump on a ferry at Oban Harbour and head for one of the many Hebridean islands where you'll stand a much better chance of a fish.

I'm heading for Ayr this summer and by all accounts the fishing ie non existant there as well.

[musky]

Depends what kind of fishing you want - I just came back from Glencoe just up the coast and had some great fun spinning for Pollack / saithe / mackerel - saw pollack to nearly double figures caught on spinners.
read my loch lhinne thread or the recent loch etive one for ideas

[blackrat]

Thanks Lads, Think Ive got a few ideas now. If we catch owt, will let you know..