ABOUT THE AUTHOR

DREW JAMIESON, BSc MLitt FIFM.

Drew Jamieson is a geographer by training; an angler by addiction and a writer by affliction.  He has been promoting Scotland’s salmon and trout fisheries for 40 years, in both the public and private sectors.  Sometime:

• Aviator,
• Academic,
• Fisheries manager,
• Planner,
• Environmentalist.

He has served as Honorary Secretary to the Scottish Anglers National Association (SANA) and was a member of the Secretary of State for Scotland’s Consultative Committee on Freshwater Fisheries.  He is a Fellow of the Institute of Fisheries Management and is a recent Chair of the Scottish Branch.  From 1979 until he retired in 2000 he developed and managed many of the trout fisheries in the public supply reservoirs on behalf of Lothian Regional Council and, latterly, East of Scotland Water.  He now acts as a fisheries consultant as “Angler's Companions”.

His writing is published in the UK and North America. In 2008 his work has appeared in The Field, Trout and Salmon, Trout Fisherman and Fly Fishing and Fly Tying.  For many years he was fisheries correspondent for The Scotsman newspaper.

 Drew Jamieson
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The Tartan Trout

140 A4 pages / 37000 words / 80+ images / 12 charts
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You will have a happy lifetime pursuing The Tartan Trout.  Like the Haggis and Nessie, or perhaps, like Lavinia Derwent’s “Tammy Troot - frae West Kilbride”, the Tartan Trout is a mythical creature.

At its core is Scotland’s iconic wild brown trout.  Add to that, a dash of the hills, mountains, rivers and lochs it which it is found, plus a good slug of the people and characters who fish for and manage them.  Finish off with the great history and tradition of Scottish trout fishing and the literary heritage left behind by those who wrote about it and you have – the Tartan Trout. 

Many of these essays started life as articles for angling magazines or chapters in books.  Many have been published previously and a few have even been read!  Others remained “works in progress” - until now.  It seemed a shame to leave them dispersed all over the ether and back issues of publications.  Most of the chapters can stand alone but there is a thread linking them together in a logical manner.  So I have pulled them together in one document – a basket of trout - perhaps?

This is not a “How to” book.  It is neither about “How to Catch Trout”, nor “Where to Find Trout”.  There are many other publications which do that better.  This is rather a celebration of Scotland’s trout, the places you fish for them and the people who look after them.  Enjoy.

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Trout from the Tapwaters

60 A4 pages / 13000 words / 16 images / 38 charts
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Scotland’s water supply reservoirs form a valuable, but not very well-known, resource for trout fishing.  Although designed and constructed to keep the population healthy and the wheels of industry turning, many of them provide superb, if unique, habitats for wild brown trout.  Most of these reservoirs are close to the populations they serve around the populous Central Belt of Scotland, within easy travelling distance of the big cities of Glasgow, Edinburgh and Dundee.

Over the years quite a lot of scientific information and management data has been collected by various individuals and agencies and this publication seeks to present it to a wider audience of progressive anglers, fisheries managers and those interested in Scotland’s aquatic biodiversity.  It provides a companion volume to The Tartan Trout, (2009), providing more detailed fisheries management information for those who require it.

The title and theme are based on an article first published by Fly Fishing and Fly Tying magazine in April 2009.  But the data on which the story is based goes back much further than that.  Enjoy!

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