Fly Fishing Loch Mill North Fife 2010

North Fife. Lochmill, Newburgh is one of the hidden gems of the town, it lies a mile or so South West.
It is a very quiet, beautiful and tranquil spot where people may picnic in solitude and watch the Great Crested Grebes, Coots, Moorhens and Herons amongst others.It also provides excellent fly fishing for Brown and Rainbow Trout. Day tickets for fishing can be obtained from Last Orders in the High Street.

Fly fishing.



Small fry in the shallow waters around Loch Mill.

Looking west from the Loch Mill road from Newburgh to the confluence of the Rivers Earn and Tay.

Quarry Newburgh, on way to and from Loch Mill one passes this quarry, it ofers good climbing though emerging at the top presents a challenge with the gorse bushes.

Fly Fishing North Fife July 2009

Fly fishing at Loch mill North Fife July 2009.

Loch Mill about 1 mile from the town sits higher up protected by surrounding hills and provides a very tranquil place to fly-fish, the sound of silence interrupted by bird calls, the occasional bleat from sheep and the splash and plop of jumping fish.

Loch-mill Newburgh. The loch is well stocked with rainbow and brown trout.

Damsel flies mate and dart hither and thither in courtship, lay eggs on water plants above multitudes of sticklebacks and other loch life.

Two visitors tackle up, at first choosing a damsel fly lure. The half day permits can be purchased "Last Orders" a covenience store on Newburgh High Street.

Loch Mill North Fife Sept 2009

Today was very pleasant, warm and sunny for a change as a high pressure builds over the UK. Loch Mill, Newburgh is a favourite spot to sit and enjoy the natural solitude and just be.

Other posts of this spot.

Farm steading for sale North Fife

The Old Mill, Berryhill farm steadings for sale, Grange of Lindores North Fife.
Fixed Price £300,000
Property Type : Semi-detached
Public Rooms : 1
Bedrooms : 3
Bathrooms : 3
Garden : yes
Garage : no
The last remaining property in a beautiful steadings development. Set in a spectacular rural location. Internally, the property is finished to an exacting standard, whilst retaining many original architectural features.
The accommodation comprises: lounge with open fire, kitchen/dining room, 3 bedrooms (master en-suite), bathroom, WC/cloaks, double glazing, parking, small private garden and shared gardens, NHBC award.

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The last remaining property in a beautiful steadings development. Set in a spectacular rural location. Internally, the property is finished to an exacting standard, whilst retaining many original architectural features. The accommodation comprises: lounge with open fire, kitchen/dining room, 3 bedrooms (master en-suite), bathroom, WC/cloaks, double glazing, parking, small private garden and shared gardens, NHBC award.
The Old Mill is the last property to be released in this small select development. The property benefits from sealed unit double glazing, LPG central heating, excellent insulation and an NHBC guarantee; indeed the site was accredited with the NHBC Pride in the Job award. Set amidst a spectacular rural location with open views of the surrounding countryside and Loch the property lies approximately one mile south of Lindores Loch, and a short distance from the banks of the River Tay. Excellent fishing is available at Lindores, Black and Golden lochs as well as the River Tay itself. The area boasts many championship golf courses. Communications are excellent with St Andrews 17 miles, Cupar 8 miles, Perth 9 miles, Dundee 16 miles and Edinburgh 45 miles (please note all mileages are approximate). There is a direct rail link taking approximately 50 minutes to Edinburgh from Cupar. Private Schools within commuting distance include Glenalmond College, Kilgraston, Strathallan, Morrison's Academy, Crieff, St Leonard's at St Andrews and the High School of Dundee. Internally the property is finished to exacting standards with particular attention being paid to retaining many of the original architectural features in keeping with the fine Scottish character of these traditional buildings. The accommodation comprises, on the ground floor, impressive Lounge with feature stone open fire, attractive arched window and glazed doors, WC/cloaks, open plan kitchen/dining room with feature former stable stall and a most useful utility/boiler room. An attractive oak staircase gives access to a bright upper hall, master bedroom with en-suite bathroom featuring travertine marble tiles and five piece suite with spa bath and a walk-in shower. There are two further bedrooms and a main bathroom on this level.
Pagan Osborne Property Services
Solicitors and Estate Agents
1 Crossgate
Cupar
Fife
KY15 4HA

Tel : 01334 656525
Fax : 01334 654119

E-mail : property-cupar@pagan.co.uk
Website : www.paganosborne.com

Something Different North Fife

Loch Mill Newburgh in the Summer. I just needed to remind myself of what it is like at other times of the year.

Moss and Lichens Pitmedden Forest North Fife

Yesterday there was a brief respite from rain, though overcast a walk in the hills into Pitmedden Forest was a delight. So good to exercise after a long sedentary spell. Starting at Loch Mill, puffing and panting along a track I was struck by the vibrant colours of the mosses and lichens. Moisture, perfect conditions.

Lochmill, once the water supply to Newburgh, now up for sale by Scottish Water, Newburgh having first option to buy. A very tranquil spot shielded from most winds, stocked with trout and available for fly fishing.

Tree stump, lichen covered, decaying away proving food for wood wasps and long horned beetles.

 

Lichen with red fruiting ends.

Sphagnum Moss thrives in moist conditions, plenty of that lately.

Occasionally one squelches through standing water along the track.
Pitmedden Forest and more, more still. A wonderful place to visit as walkers, horse riders and mountain bikers do.

River Tay April 1st 2009

The river Tay North Fife April 1st 2009 overlooking Newburgh, quite a wintery light but with a much welcomed warmth. I visited a much loved spot high above the town, a gem that is visited by few.

Fly fishing on loch Mill Newburgh North Fife. Spring is now unfurling this April at last, Trees are just coming into bud and quite quickly winter colours will be replaced with lush new growth.

The River Tay March 14th

The River Tay March 14th looking West North West into Perthshire over Carpow. Where the Rivers Earn and Tay meet an amazing discovery was made a few years ago now. Namely an Ironage logboat. All of Scotland has history but this particular area seems super rich. about a mile upstream from Carpow is Abernethy once the Pictish Capitol of Scotland.

The view of the river Tay disappears on the wee road past Loch Mill on the way to Auchtermuchty and is supplanted by views of the howe of fife intermixed with these wonderful avenues of hedgerow trees which when in leaf are light dappled green tunnels.

Fife Diet's AGM

Fife Diet's AGM.
Below as events unfolded.

 

The Board introduce themselves and disclose the agenda for the day.

 

To the gathered assembly of Fife Dieters who will have enjoyed the free soup and breads beforehand applaud Wendy Gudmundsson and Colin Lindsay for being on the board for many years. Wendy gifted with a wee gnome to keep her company as she gardens.

The venue was split into two parts, the upper hall used for an open space session to share ideas about continuing elements of Fife Diet work and developing new ones. What members would like to see happen and what part they could play. Resilient Grassroot movements need a life of their own and not be just grant dependent. To this end members minds were focused.

Downstairs 2.00 - 4.30 board members were available for advice, above is Mags at the tables of free donated books on food.

Seeds from the Seed Truck initiative, free for the use of.

 

Jam Art and tasters. mmmm nice.

Charlotte Duffy, paper pods and cardboard sculpture.

Catherine Brown author of many Scottish focussed Cookery Books promotes Bere Flour, a Neolithic Barley still grown on Orkney but once a staple grain throughout Scotland. Superb taste, I'm delighted to be made aware of its existence.

Mrs Mash, entertains with story telling prior to cooking.

Meanwhile, starters of Savoy Cabbage Parcels with winter roots and Vegetable Falafel are prepared by many voluntary hands ( yes well washed ones ).

Others find the seed bank.

Sampling some of  Catherine Brown's food delights and they were truly delightful, it was no wonder that people bought signed copies of her many publications.

Catherine Brown grew up in Glasgow, her mother's home town, but also spent much of her early life in an east coast fishing village where her father's family lived. Two very different food cultures which provided vivid food memories of distinctive Scottish food traditions. They sparked her quest to celebrate and develop the potential of Scotland's rich and varied larder. She has been a chef in hotels, a teacher, a researcher, a journalist as well as a presenter of STV and Grampian TV's Scotland's Larder. She became the Guild of Food Writers' Food Journalist of the Year in 2001 for her investigative food columns in The Herald (Glasgow). She now divides her time between a small village in Perthshire and an even smaller one on the shores of Loch Torridon.
Look and Buy Here. Scottish Cookery

Falafel production.

Bicycle powered flour mill.

Upstairs, split into 4 groups, ways forward were considered, written down for further debate.

 

All coming together to meld the various proposals.

Meal time came round,  I was so hungry I demolished several Cabbage Parcels and Falafels that omitted to photograph them. The main course was Beet Bourguignon, Potato and Celeriac Dauphinoise, Puy Lentils. ( recipe from. www.greenkitchenstories.com.)

Dessert was:- Crowdie and Heather Honey Ice Cream with Rosemary Shortbread and Fruit Coilis. ( ice cream recipe from the Gardeners Cottage restaurant Edinburgh ) Shortbread made by Fiona Wallace.

At the end of the AGM and before the Ceilidh Lesley Riddoch gave a talk, pushing at open doors in the main. A wonderful affirmation of how some people feel. Lesley spoke of the Nordic model, so very different from the English whereby a few inherit the wealth and deprive the many. Such is the overbearing class system in operation.

“Blossom is an account of Scotland at the grassroots through the stories of people I've had the good fortune to know – the most stubborn, talented and resilient people on the planet. They've had to be. Some have transformed their parts of Scotland. Some have tried and failed. But all have something in common – they know what it takes for Scotland to blossom. We should know too. So this book poses a question as important as the one Scots must answer on 18 September 2014. Why is Scotland still the most unequal society and sickest man (and woman) of Europe despite an abundance of natural resources and a long history of human capacity? Facts and figures are a vital part of any story. But they don't bring Scotland's dilemma alive. They don't explain why people with choices act as if they had none. They don't explain why Scots over the centuries have put on weight, not democratic muscle. They don't explain why cash and socialist tradition have failed to shift poverty. They don't explain why some Scots trash Scotland while others tiptoe round the place like it's only rented for the weekend. Why don't ordinary Scots behave like the permanent, responsible owners of this beautiful country? Is it because we are not the owners – and never have been?!"

Review

Every Scot should read Blossom by Lesley Riddoch before they vote. This book will arm them with all the information they need to fill in the blanks. I'm reading Blossom right now and every paragraph crystallises the nebulous sensations of deep divide inequality and snobbery I have experienced my whole life. We have to make a new more equal Scotland by having our own Scottish value system to aspire to and not a middle British set which asks us to adopt ways foreign to our sensibilities. If we can't build a new fresh Scotland filled with opportunity and without prejudice it might be time to walk way and leave this country to its final disaggregation. --Des Dillon

Reading Lesley Riddoch's Blossom is like inhaling fjord air after being trapped in a sweaty backroom. Just brilliant. --Pat Kane

It's brilliant, every politician in the land should be made to read the chapter on inequality. I love the human stories in the book, but it's rich with evidence too. The most engaging social policy book I've read in ages (ever?) --Jenny Kemp, Zero Tolerance campaign

About the Author

LESLEY RIDDOCH is an award-winning broadcaster, writer and journalist. She writes weekly columns for The Scotsman and Sunday Post and is a regular contributor to The Guardian, Newsnight Scotland and Scotland Tonight. She is founder and director of Nordic Horizons, a policy group that brings Nordic experts into the Scottish Parliament. Lesley presented You and Yours on BBC Radio 4, The Midnight Hour on BBC2 and The People's Parliament and Powerhouse on Channel 4. She founded the Scottish feminist magazine Harpies and Quines, won two SONY awards for her daily Radio Scotland show and edited The Scotswoman, a 1995 edition of The Scotsman written and edited by its female staff. She lives in Fife and is married to an Englishman who grew up in Canada. 

To look and Buy

Blossom: What Scotland Needs to Flourish (Viewpoints)