SEA ANGLING IN ORKNEY 1968 Part 1

Part 2 can be viewed at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymChcHRmdqM

Shot on 16mm film in Orkney in June and November 1968, SEA ANGLING IN ORKNEY was my first joint venture into producing angling programmes with my dear friend and fishing companion, Michael Prichard ARPS. The programme features the legendary sea angling and beach-casting guru, Leslie Moncrieff.

BA was BEA in those days - and I was a youthful 25 years old.

This is part one of that quest in the beautiful islands of Orkney just a few miles across the Pentland Firth from the Scottish mainland. It features the rugged coastline of the Island of Hoy and some excellent sport with haddock, cod and ling. The common skate and halibut come later, in parts 2 and 3. Enjoy.
I dedicate this short clip to Mike Prichard and Les Moncrieff who are sadly no longer with us.

Happy memories
Mike Shepley

Category:

Sports

Tags:

• Orkney
• sea angling
• Orkney Isles
• Stromness
• Kirkwall
• Scapa Flow
• Leslie Moncrieff
• .Michael Prichard
• Mike Shepley
• Old Man of Hoy
• St John's Head
• Hoy Sound
• Graemsay Island
• tide race
• Orkney Sea Angling Association
• Orkney Tourist Board
• cod
• ling
• halibut
• common skate
• deep sea fishing

[shetlandlive]

We at Orkneylive . com love your viedo and have added it to our website. Oh where is part 2?

[TheFlyingScotsman447]

@shetlandlive

Glad you like the programme. Part 2 now live on YouTube.

Part 3 to follow, where I land my 58.5 lbs halibut: not large by today's standards, but in those days, the second largest landed on rod and line in Britain. Tight Lines. Mike Shepley

[moncrime2010]

great to see moncrieff, my grandad doing what he loved

[orkneymiss]

Great recording from so long ago.