Guides, ghillies and instructors in Scotland

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South West
Annandale & Border Fly Fishing	Annan, Nith & Borders	Full-time qualified professional Instructors and Registered Guides. Specialising in Spey casting. Dry fly for brown trout & grayling on river Annan. All abilities welcome. Equipment, permits and accommodation arranged.	STANIC, AAPGAI, REFF	01461 206750
Martin Mitchell	Lochmaben	Instructor: coarse/shark fishing covering the South	PAA	07952 545883
South East
Tweed Guide Selkirk		Full-time professional river guiding/gaming fishing service covering the Tweed system. Holidays, days and 3 hour sessions for any age, ability or size of group. Waders, kit & permits provided.	GAIA level 2	07962 401770 Email us
Fish Wild Stobo		Professional guiding/instruction for brown trout, grayling, sea trout & salmon. Anglers of all ages and ability welcome. Borders, South West, Islay & Jura, and much more. All requirements catered for.	GAIA Level 2	07791 696129 Email us
Stewart Collingswood	Edinburgh	Guide covering central Scotland		0131 5386428
Andy Dickison	Peebles	Instructor covering Tweed	APGAI	01721 720331
Mac Douglas	Wooler	Guide/Instructor for Tweed	GAIA Level 2	01668 283647
Michael McDaid	Lauder	Guide/Instructor covering Tweed & Borders	AAPGAI	01578 722201
Ian Moutter	Coldstream	Instructor covering Borders and Solway	APGAI	07766 746406
West Central
Peter Anderson	Glasgow	Instructs on Teith, Forth, Tay, Spey & Tweed	STANIC	0141 776 6999
David Bell	Loch Lomond	Instructor covering Central Waters	AAPGAI	07775 522254
Jim Fisher	Glasgow	Instructs on Dee, Spey, Tay, Tummel, Tweed	AAPGAI	07887 747122
Alberto Laidlaw	Glasgow	Instructor covering Menteith, Trossachs, Loch Awe, Tay, Tummel & Clyde	APGAI	07778 526859
John Milne	Glasgow	Instructs & Guides in Howwood & Lawfield	SGAIC	0141 571 2164
Gary Scott	Glasgow	Instructor, Guide & Gillie covering Rivers Teith, Tay & Dee	AAPGAI	07734 387775
John Strain	Kilmarnock	Instructor covering the Aryshire Stillwaters	REFFIS, SGIAC	01563 540986
Andrew Toft	Glasgow	Instructor covering Central Belt waters	AAPGAI, SGAIC,STANIC	07793 366930
East Central
Ian Rae	Striling	Instructor covering Stirlingshire Stillwaters	APGAI	01786 834198
Chris Price	Lothian	Guide/Instructor covering Lothian & Borders	APGAI	07885 789564
George Parkins	Aberfeldy	Instructor covering Tay, Garry & Tummel	STANIC	01887 840408
Douglas Morison	Blairgowrie	Guide/Instructor covering the Erict	STANIC	01250 884344
Brian McGlashan	Kirkcaldy	Instructor covering all stillwaters and rivers	SGAIC, APGAI,FFF MCI	07801 029501
Peter McCallum	Montrose	Instructor covering the Angus area	APGAI	01674 672207
William Horne	Lake of Monteith	Instructor covering East Central & East Lothian	SGAIC	07836 218504
Stan Headley	Dundee	Guide/Instructor on North & North West waters		01382 541588
Ally Gowans	Pitlochry	Guide/Instructor on Highland Perthshire Rivers	APGAI, AAPGAI, FFF Master Instructor	01796 473718
Franz Grimley	Falkirk	Instructor, Guide & Gillie	SANA	01324 626433
Stewart Grieve	Kirkcaldy	Instructor covering Fife area	SGAIC	01592 265105
David Crosbie	Dunfermline	Instructor covering Tay & Earn	APGAI	01383 822541
West Coast
Jim Bolton	Strontian	Guide covering Morvern Peninsula &River Aline		01967 421690
James Coutts	Fort William	Guide covering Argyll & Inverness-shire	AAPGAI	01397 712812
North
Speycaster.net		Ian Neale has been working professionally as a fly fishing guide in Scotland for over 20 years. He has access to many prime salmon beats on the Findhorn, Dee, and Spey. Salmon fishing can be arranged for individual rods or for groups of anglers.		01309 641658 Email us
Stephen Smith	Ullapool	Instructor covering the North West Region	APGAI	01854 666334
Ewen Robertson	Inverness	Instructor covering the Highland region	SGAIC	01463 831407
Alan Riach	Grantown-on-Spey	Guide covering the Spey & Aviemore area.		01479 831274
Kevin Moss	Aberlour	Instructor covering all stillwaters and lochs	APGAI, FFFCI	07967 466973
Scott MacKenzie	Inverness	Instructor, Guide & Gillie covering the Ness	CCA	01463 231614
Ian Gordon	Banffshire	Instructor, Guide & Gillie covering Banffshire	CCA	07786 120436
Roger Dowsett Ross-shire		Full-time guide/instructor covering the Rivers Alness and Conon for salmon, Loch Eye plus many more lochs in Ross-shire, Caithness & Sutherland for wild brown trout. Full fly fishing holidays arranged.	STANNIC, GAIC	01349 830606 Email us
North East
Willie Banks	Banchory	Instructor, Guide & Gillie covering the Dee	AAPGAI	07776 146469
Tom & Jean Marshall	Montrose	Guide/Instructor on Dee, Esks, Tay & Tummel. Complete tackle hire available	SGAIC	01674 810352
Paul Rankine	Ellon	Instructor on the N.E & Highland region waters	SGAIC	01358 724095
Outer Isles
David Pritchard	Stornoway	Instructor, Guide & Gillie on Isle of Lewis	CCA	01851 890382
Iain Leitch	Stornoway	Guide/Instructor covering the Isle of Lewis	SGAIC	01851 701412

Qualifications/accreditations

APGAI - Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors
AAPGAI - Association of Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructors
FFF - Federation of Fly Fishers qualification (international)
FC - FishCoach. Licensed coach appointed by the Joint Angling Development Board (UK)
CCA - Certificate Coaching Angling. Level 2 is higher than 1
GAIA - Game Angling Instructors Association qualification. Level 2 is higher than 1
GAIC- Game Angling Instructor's Certificate
PAA - Professional Anglers Association
REFFIS - Register of Experienced Fly Fishing Instructors, Schools & Guides
SANA - Scottish Anglers National Association instructor
SGAIC - Scottish Game Angling Instructors Certificate
STANIC - Salmon & Trout Association National Instructor Certificate

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