(Thurso - One of the most famous location for fossil fishing) - 2003

When you visit any location for the first time, normally it takes a long time to settle down before you start to find any trace of life at all, then gradually you start to make better finds. Thurso starts almost instantaneous with fish fragments in most of the rocks, scales can be seen everywhere, sometimes rocks full of scales can be split for other fragments. The most common type of fish here is an armored fish and its shield is quite common. As you walk Eastwards, the fragments seem to get bigger. Whole complete fish have been found here and further up the cliff they can be found in nodules but due to their value, are very scarce.

(Collecting at Thurso) - 2003

The best advice is to firstly search in the small bay areas where rocks have been washed up, these smaller boulders are easier to manage and split than trying to attack the foreshore only to find that your hammer blunts. Fish can be found on the shoreshore and it is worth a search, but look for cracks, edges and loose rocks otherwise you could have quite a task on your hands. If there are few smaller rocks around, use a large lump hammer to split up large boulders and split them down, look for rocks that already have fish fragments showing. Some rocks contain a tinted blue coloured fish and others are black, these are two different species of fish.