New River & Green Websites!

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We are delighted to announce that our brand new River & Green websites have finally been officially launched! We have spent the last few months tinkering with the details so our regular visitors will be familiar with the new look but for new and returning visitors we hope you like the content and design and hope that it lives up to, and indeed surpasses, it’s predecessor. Please do take a look and let us know what you think?

In a further development, following the suggestions of our internet advisors, we have also launched 4 new “microsites” and for easier client access we have placed our Italian and German versions of the main website under their own top-level domain names.  Visit; www.river-green.com, www.river-green.it, www.vacanzascozia.it, www.pescainscozia.it, www.river-green.de,   www.schottlandjagd.de,  www.angelnschottland.de

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Scottish Pike Recipe

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Scottish Pike Recipe – Baked stuffed pike

Here’s a fantastic recipe for baked stuffed pike. In our experience the cooking times work best with a fish of about 3-5lbs.

1.  Clean and descale the fish, then remove the backbone but leave on the head and tail

2.  Cook about one cup of wild rice, then set it to one side to cool down

3.  Dice one large onion, 2 garlic cloves and one medium sized skinned cucumber

4.  Salt the chopped cucumber and leave for about 15-20 minutes.

5.  Fry off the onion, garlic and cucumber in a couple of knobs of butter – cook until translucent rather than brown

6.  Roughly chop up 2 or 3 hard-boiled eggs, some capers, some olives, curly parsley, chives and fresh thyme

7.  Mix  the rice, fried onion mix and chopped ingredients, then add a couple of spoonful’s of crème fraiche and season with salt and plenty of pepper

8.  Stuff the cavity of the cleaned pike with the savoury stuffing mix and stitch or tie the fish closed

9.  Place the stuffed fish onto a lightly buttered baking dish and put into a preheated oven at 200ºC

10. After 5 minutes, turn the fish and put it back into the oven for another 5 minutes

11. Add half a cup of water and half a cup of white wine and turn the oven down to 175ºC

12. Cook for about 30 to 40 minutes, until the fish is firm, but not hard, to the touch

 

Ingredients:

• 3 qt Boiling salted water
• 2/3 c Rice
• 1 lg Cucumber, peeled, seeded and coarsely chopped
• 1/4 tsp. Salt
• 2 Hard-cooked eggs, coarsely chopped
• 2 tb Butter
• 1/2 c Onions, finely chopped
• 1/2 c Parsley, finely chopped
• 1/4 c Chives, finely chopped
• 1 tb Salt
• 1/8 tsp. White pepper
• 1 tb Heavy cream (to 3 tb)
• 8 tb Butter (a 1/4-lb stick)
• 6 tb Dry bread crumbs
• 3 lb Pike — cleaned and scaled *
• 1/2 c Boiling water

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Country Sports and Beyond!

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Walking sticks, knitting, fossils and foraging!

Although we are best known for providing fishing, hunting and golf in Scotland, it is the bespoke nature of our holidays which sets us apart. And what a diverse range of interests our clients have! In the past six months we have been asked to incorporate visits to fossil collections, the workshop of a walking stick maker, woollen mills, and kilt makers. We even arranged for one of our clients to be led on a foraging expedition for mushrooms. We love this sort of challenge, so please don’t hesitate to ask!

Scotland’s Amazing Summer of Sport

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Scotland’s amazing summer of sport

There has never been a better time to visit Scotland than this summer. The “main events” will be the Commonwealth Games (23 July to 3 August) and golf’s Ryder Cup at Gleneagles (23 to 28 September). However, there is a huge variety of other events which will also contribute to our summer of sport. Fort William will host the UCI World Mountain Bike World Cup (7 to 8 June), inviting 300 of the world’s best riders from 25 nations to compete for World Champion status. Later in June, the 700th Anniversary of the Battle of Bannockburn will be celebrated at Pipefest in Stirling (27 June). Pipe Bands and Scottish Clan members from all over the world are expected to attend. As well as the Ryder Cup, golf enthusiasts will also be able to visit the mens’ Scottish Open on the Balgownie Links (10 to 13 July) and the lady’s event at Archerfield (29 to 31 August). Blair Castle International Horse Trials and Country Fair is Scotland’s leading equestrian event (21 to 24 August) attracting in excess of 40,000 visitors. For more information visit Event Scotland.

http://www.eventscotland.org/events?page=all

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Top 10 Trout Rivers in Scotland

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Every fisherman will have his preferences, nevertheless here is the River & Green’s fishing guides’ consensus of the very best trout fishing rivers in Scotland…

1.  The Tweed

Famed for its salmon, The Tweed and its major tributary The Teviot also provide fantastic sport for wild brown trout. Tweed is particularly good for dry fly-fishing in the early part of the season, around mid-April and during the evening hours throughout the summer months.

2.  The Don

Perhaps not as prolific as it was, the Don still offers wonderful fly-fishing for really big trout in wonderful surroundings. Still justifies its excellent reputation.

3.  The Clyde

The Clyde is easily accessible, cheap and reliable. Especially good in March and April. The fish are not fooled easily, but the river holds a good population of big fish. Also offers great grayling fishing in the winter.

4.  The Annan

Another river with a famous for producing big trout. Tremendous dry fly water during the summer.  Also has a prodigious run of summer sea trout.

5.  The Spey

Perhaps an unlikely choice, but the fast flowing waters of the Spey produce very hard fighting brown trout. As the river is almost entirely given over to salmon fishing, there is little pressure on the trout. It is however essential to know which parts of the river to fish.

6.  The Tummel

Pitlochry Angling Association controls all of the best that the Tummel has to offer. Like its neighbour the Tay, it is relatively heavily fished, so the trout are wary and the gin-clear water only serves to make things more tricky.

7.  The Tay

Like the Tummel, the Tay is visited by a lot of trout fishermen. Like the Spey, you really need to know which parts of the river are worth fishing.

8.  The Earn

The Earn flows relatively slowly through rural Perthshire. Reminiscent of the Don, the banks can be heavily vegetated. The trout can be very large and free-rising, especially when there is a touch of colour in the water – which is not unusual.

9.  The Gaur

A personal favourite, the humble River Gaur is probably not very familiar to many Scots! This little river running between Loch Laidon and Loch Eigheach in the middle of Rannoch Moor offers fantastic fishing for mostly small trout in breathtakingly wild and remote scenery. Due to the terrain and remoteness, we would advise against fishing it alone.

10.  The Dochart

And finally, another river which is much overlooked by the visitor, but cherished by the locals. Mostly smaller fish, except in some of the deeper pools. Excellent upstream dry fly-fishing.