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Post by charlieh on Mar 7, 2006 0:19:28 GMT
Before Graham cleans up:
1. Grantown Assn (SAIA)
2. Wester Elchies
4. Arndilly
15. Arndilly
19. Delfur
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Post by tynespeycaster on Mar 7, 2006 7:40:13 GMT
Before Graham cleans up: 1. Grantown Assn (SAIA) 2. Wester Elchies 4. Arndilly 15. Arndilly 19. Delfur Agreed, some of the others I think are:- 12. Craigellachie/Macallan 18. Pitcroy?-one of the Knockando Beats |
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Post by tyneandrew on Mar 7, 2006 11:03:42 GMT
Graham you should be entered onto 'You Bet' if they still had the programme on tv! ;D
Incredible knowledge...
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Post by charlieh on Mar 7, 2006 11:29:29 GMT
I reckon he's got one of those maps of the river showing all the pools and beats.  |
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Post by charlieh on Mar 8, 2006 12:33:27 GMT
I think someone has done an updated map of the river showing the revised beat boundaries. Certainly I saw a map somewhere - I think it may have been in the Wester Elchies hut - when I was up a few weeks ago that included Upper Arndilly, the 'postie's beat' (is it properly called Inverfiddich?), and Arndilly as it currently stands - ie with the left bank continuous from the Piles to the Cobble Pot.
On the subject of maps and Arndilly, I've seen an old map that marked the Cobble Pot as 'Coble Pot'. Does anyone know if it was there that the Arndilly estate used to do their netting? If so does the pool's name originally derive from the boat used, and the spelling has been changed over the years? Or was the old map just spelt wrong?
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Post by charlieh on Mar 8, 2006 13:01:29 GMT
Graham, I have been told that Arndilly in fact retained the right to net one day a month right up to the 1950's, though obviously the owners chose not to exercise their right. I don't know if that's correct. Certainly the landlord of the Fiddich Inn said that when he worked there the old nets were still in a store somewhere.
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