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Do you mean fishing for coarse fish??.

 

I have an Uncle who used to fly to Orkney & fish worm for trout.

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There is no coarse fishing as such, although a few of the locals fish for trout using the worm.

TBH, Orkney is a great place to visit and a great place to fish if you fish the fly

It is cold, wet and windy a lot of the time though.

Serious coarse fishing in Scotland is centered around Glasgow and the South West. With the exception of Pike and possibly Perch there is no real coarse fishing north of Inverness.

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

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Thanks, both of you. I had realised there may not be coarse fish, though I wondered about pike and perch. Lack of skill, and also back problems, mean my fly fishing capability is very limited. But I'm interested in the prospect of trout or even sea trout on worm. Any advice on this would be great. Also if there is easy sea angling. I say 'easy' cos I'm a complete novice at this, also.

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No pike, maybe Perch but I have never heard of any. Your best bet might be float fishing for mullet around the marina.

I don't know the ins and out of fishing the worm for trout. The lochs are controlled by the Orkney angling club

http://www.orkneytroutfishing.co.uk/ so a call to them may be in order.

There are no rivers on Orkney, the sea trout fishing is in the sea, wading from the beach.

Your best bet for actually catching something id fishing from a boat.

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Bloody Orkney

This bloody town's a bloody cuss

No bloody trains, no bloody bus,

And no one cares for bloody us

In bloody Orkney.

 

The bloody roads are bloody bad,

The bloody folks are bloody mad,

They'd make the brightest bloody sad,

In bloody Orkney.

 

 

All bloody clouds, and bloody rains,

No bloody kerbs, no bloody drains,

The Council's got no bloody brains,

In bloody Orkney.

 

Everything's so bloody dear,

A bloody bob, for bloody beer,

And is it good? - no bloody fear,

In bloody Orkney.

 

The bloody 'flicks' are bloody old,

The bloody seats are bloody cold,

You can't get in for bloody gold

In bloody Orkney.

 

The bloody dances make you smile,

The bloody band is bloody vile,

It only cramps your bloody style,

In bloody Orkney.

 

No bloody sport, no bloody games,

No bloody fun, the bloody dames

Won't even give their bloody names

In bloody Orkney.

 

Best bloody place is bloody bed,

With bloody ice on bloody head,

You might as well be bloody dead,

In bloody Orkney

 

 

There's nothing greets your bloody eye

But bloody sea and bloody sky,

'Roll on demob!' we bloody cry

In bloody Orkney.

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Captain Blair sums it up quite well.

John

I have seen mullet around the marina in Stromness, but never fished for them.

They may well be found around Kirkwall Harbour, although that tends to be busier.

There are some interesting causeways and remains of wrecks built to protect the Anchorage in Scapa Flow that might be worth a look as well.

Let's agree to respect each others views, no matter how wrong yours may be.

 

 

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Captain Blair sums it up quite well.

John

I have seen mullet around the marina in Stromness, but never fished for them.

They may well be found around Kirkwall Harbour, although that tends to be busier.

There are some interesting causeways and remains of wrecks built to protect the Anchorage in Scapa Flow that might be worth a look as well.

 

Stromness - are you 100% sure they were mullet? Just asking because I've fished for mullet and had reports from most of the good areas and up until now the furthest North has been Inveraray ;-)

If they're up in Orkney that would have to make them some of the farthest North mullet ever I'd have thought.

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