Lower North Wark

Boatmen

Calum Manson

Calum is a full time ghillie/boatman in charge of the Lower North Wark beat.

Calum’s passion for fly fishing started at a very young age. In 1989 he won the International Youth Fly Fishing Championship. On leaving school Calum started work at Castle Grant on the Spey and he trained as a ghillie for two years.

He then moved on to the Association Water at Grantown on a seasonal basis. In the winter months he went to New Zealand for various fishing opportunities and he had two trips to Canada.

In 2005 Calum won the Scottish Spey Casting Championship at the Scottish Game Fair. Calum started working at Wark in August 2005.

Peter Ratcliffe

Peter is a ghillie/boatman on the Lower North Wark beat.

He helps out during October/November after the close of the fishing season on the Grimesta Estate on the Isle of Lewis. Peter has been working at Wark since 2009.

Peter has a great passion for fly fishing in all its forms. He has had great experience fishing throughout the UK, Ireland, America, Cuba, Australia and New Zealand. This has involved Peter travelling extensively.

In 1999-2002 Peter was a freelance Fishing Guide and a Fly Tying and Casting Instructor in New Zealand, before he started working on the Grimesta Estate in 2005.

His activities have included working as a horse trekking guide in the Snowy Mountains in Australia.