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Picture Number112
Courtesy OfColin Dunn
Year2004
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Loch Maree and Slioch

Looking East across Loch Maree at Slioch (the Spear). The foregound is the former fishing beat of Grudie, one of a famous series of Salmon and Sea Trout beats used when Loch Maree Hotel still provided boats and ghillies. Sadly, the hotel ceased offering fishing in the 1980's, when stocks of fish had slumped disastrously due, allegedly, to over netting at the mouth of the river and the catching of whole shoals of migrating fish by Norwegian fishermen off the coast of Greenland.
Picture Added on 13 December 2006.

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I worked at the Loch Maree hotel as a ghillie in the early 1980s. There were 10 boats fishing the beats on the loch - each beat had it's own name - Coree, Weedy, Ash Island, Steamer Channel, Back of Islands, Hotel, Isle Maree, Fool's Rock, Grudie and Salmon Reach.

Steamer Channel was named after the steamship which used to run from one end of the loch (Kinlochewe) to the other (Poolewe) calling in at the Hotel on the way.
Added by Garve Scott-Lodge on 13 December 2006.


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