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Mid Oct 2007 - First piking trip of the
winter just for one day up in the highlands. The weather was the best
thing about the day, absolutley gin clear views and warming sunshine.
I expected a few more runs than the one I got in the early afternoon. The
fish turned out to be a small jack pike that took a liking to a small dead
rainbow trout presented on a float legering rig close in in about 10 ft of
water. I couldn't muster another bite and on the drive home I was
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End of season Oct 2007 - Bit of
confusion as to the actual date of the last day on the rivers meant I missed
the last 2 weeks of the season having thought the salmon fishing ended on
the last day of Sept. I was quite busy with work in any event but
would have still probably fished a couple of days. Anyway all in all a
good game season both on the brown/sea trout front and for the salmon.
I was on the river less than last season - especially the local streams -
and I think that's partly why I didn't catch as many sea trout. The
fishing on the Snizort has been a highlight with an excellent catch of
returned salmon this season - easily the best in many a yr. It shows
what proactive river management can achieve when coupled with conservation
minded angling.
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Wednesday 19th September 2007 - I
finally cracked it and had two salmon off the Sligachan River on a receeding
spate coinciding with a morning high tide.
Brilliant stuff! Just when I thought I wouldn't get a salmon this
season after getting
one last season. How wrong I was and that shows you should always have
faith! I took both the fish in a noted
pool on the lower river and they fell for a orange shrimp fly (I will find
the name!) fished on a sink tip. The spate was falling and the river
was actually quite low, you could wade across it safely in places which means it is low for
the Sligachan! The first grilse was around 5lb and fought like hell
and gave the new rod a thorough test. I was ecstatic when I finally
tailed the fish and was happy to see it recover and swim off upstream.
I took one a little later on about 3lb to the same tactic and like the first
it was released. All in all a memorable day and it mattered little
that I couldn't get a beat on the Snizort that day as it was fully booked.
Sadly I had no means of recording the catch but I'm not in the habit of
forgetting about the few salmon I've been lucky to catch! |
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Fri 14th September 2007 - Had the day
off as I was heading off over to Drams in the Field music festival later
that day so had the morning and early afternoon on the Kilmartin River near
Staffin. The river was in great nick, perfect spate conditions so I
was pretty confident of a salmon. However that didn't prove correct as
I moved nothing, fishing a number of good pools on the middle river. I
took a few brown trout which will attack any fly even if it's bigger than
them! It was tough going with the strong upstream wind but never mind
I'll be back! |
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Wednesday 12th September 2007 -
Afternoon out on the boat making the most of a very calm spell. Got
over to the marks round Geary but had best fishing off Score Bay for
mackerel. Plenty of fish still there and we had some quality sized
fish too which makes a change. Also took a few nice pollock trolling
and to feathers. Saw my first Basking Shark off the boat, an amazing
experience. Rounded the day off with a lobster
and a huge brown crab in the creels. |
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Sat 8th September 2007 - Penultimate
boat competition and as suspected it was hard going for all concerned.
On the face of it, conditions wise it was reasoable with a decent ripple for
most of the day. I took one small fish early on in Armishader Bay but
that was it for me and Louie. We tried most of the drifts and the
closest we came was a fish of around a pound missing Louie's fly twice and one
I lost in the creek in the last 15 mins. Only 3 fish over 10 inches
were successfully landed and it was Ginger and George who won it having
caught the biggest of the three. Top lads, they shared the
whiskey they won with the rest of us who failed miserably, in the boat house
after the weigh in! |
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Friday 7th September 2007 - Been very
busy with work (which is good) and I have been thwarted at every opportunity
to get on the river when a spate finally emerges. The Snizort is
fishing amazingly well, as are other rivers, with nearly 100 salmon banked
already this season off the Snizer - I have managed one brief half day on
there and have been busy every time a spate comes along so I'm very
frustrated by it all! I have a free day today and the spate from this
week has gone, typical! Lets hope the Cuillin Hills final on the Storr
Lochs fishes well tomorrow and here's hoping for a deluge next week but
looking at Met Check it appears not to be. |
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Wednesday 29th August 2007 -
Penultimate bank competition for Portree AA and despite having no chance of
winning this season's series of matches I still went to soak in the lovely
surroundings. The weather was OK when I arrived though as soon as i
tackled up and stepped out of the car the wind became a howler and the rain
set in. The bank I had walked 20mins to get to to fish ended up being
unfishable so I had to head somewhere else sheltered. I managed one
small trout of about 5 oz and then caught nothing else. The rains and
wind got the better of me so I headed off early leaving a couple of hardy
souls still thrashing the water with their teams of flies. I got back
in time for Celtic V Moscow, I should have stayed out in the rain! |
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Sunday 26th August 2007 - Monthly pike
fishing outing, this time up at Loch Gowan. Turned out to be a nice
day in the highlands weatherwise with a nice breeze from the east keeping
the midges at bay. We all caught plenty of pike this time around and
the alarms were sounding pretty regularly which is better than sitting it
out all day wondering if there are any pike at all. We landed nothing
spectacular size wise, all the 10 or so pike were jacks with the biggest
possibly nudging 4lb. Lovely clean and beautifully marked fish though.
All fell to a variety of baits but sardine seemed the most effective.
My two fish fell to a small herring and a lamprey section. Dougie won
the match with four fish from the weed beds. Well done mate! |
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Wednesday 22nd August 2007 - Last of
the monthly Storr Lochs boat competitions and I fished with George Bruce for
this individuals match. The conditions were not ideal - probably an
understatement that - dense fog hanging over the loch with visibility down
to the end of your nose and totally flat calm with kamikaze midges attacking
from every conceivable angle. All the fishers struggled and we did
well to catch 4 small brown trout. Ian won the match with one solitary
brown trout of about 1lb so well done to him. |
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Monday 20th August 2007 - Day off and
had intended to maybe fish the Snizort but as I suspected the spate over the
weekend was all too brief and had run off so there was little point fishing
the river. So instead I took one of the club boats out on the Storr
Lochs in the evening. A strong and cold northerly wind made it pretty
difficult and no fish were rising at all; when I lost a reasonable trout in
the creek I kind of guessed that would be my only chance gone. Not so
as I managed to catch a nice wild brownie over on one of the drifts on the
far shoreline. I took it on a teal and black and it put up a hell of a
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Tuesday 14th and Thursday 16th August 2007
- Was away working in Torrin all week doing a bit of re-wiring with my dad.
I knew we would be close to Loch na Sguabaidh and it's short length of river
that empties into Loch Slapin. A perfect spot for some sea trout I
thought so before any tools were loaded in the van, the rod, reel and flies
went in! Luckily we had some rain but really the tide comes in so far
up the river that you can probably fish it in low water as I suspect the sea
trout come in anyway before moving back out as the tide ebbs back. On
the first evening I had a small finnock of about 6 oz which was practically
my last cast. I went back for a couple of hours on the Thursday and
started right in the brack and had a mackerel! I thought it was a good
sea trout and was actually slightly dissapointed! The mackerel swam
away to fight another day. I then headed up to a nice sweeping pool as
dusk drew in and started to catch. I had a sea trout straight away
about 12oz on a teal blue and silver double and then proceeded to lose an
absolute beauty which snapped me when it surged off downstream. I was
really fuming. Anyway I gave the pool a rest and had another sea trout
just into the dark about 10 oz. I had no head torch so had to head
back, but it was an excellent evenings fishing, there's something about sea
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Sat 11th August 2007 - Another few hrs
out o the boat, this time taking my brother, Sophie and Dom out as Dom was
leaving Skye and I said we'd go out, catch some fish and cook them later
with a few beers. We started trolling and to be fair it is tricky to
do if you're not really a regular fisher. So we got snagged a few
times, lost a bit of tackle and more importantly had an empty fish crate
after an hour. I wasn't convinced there were no fish so I had a go and
caught a pollock of about 4lb straight away! luck y'see! anyway
I gave them the rods back but again we caught nothing so we changed to
feathers just to prove that there were fish and yes they were there, lots of
small pollock and coalie. We headed back in with one nice pollock
which was enough for tea and then went in the loch and lowered the feathers
in and started catching lots of mackerel. Finished off by lifting the
creels and had one lobster that was undersized so that went back. The
pollock fillets were done with parsley sauce and we grilled the mackerel and
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Sun 5th August 2007 - A much nicer day
and I took Jez out fishing with me on the boat. Jez was up on holiday
and loves fishing so I said I'd let him come out with me to check the creels
and catch some fish. The wind was really light and from the SW so for
the first time in a bit we got right over to fish Castle Rock. We
started in Loch Greshornish as the tide was going out; not ideal for
mackerel and we got a few but not that many which is kind of what I
expected. We headed off to the point at Score Bay usually a good spot
for mackerel but we got nothing but to be fair didn't give it long. So
with that we headed to guaranteed fish catching marks. Straight away
we were getting small pollock, coalie, raindow and ballan wrasse on
feathers. Unfortunately Jez lost a really nice pollock just as I went
to hand it in! Anyway we caught some good fish upto about 4lb.
We then headed to another big fish mark and it was my turn with an 8lb
pollock caught trolling. Jez got in the act with some nice pollock too
and we rounded the evening off near the head of Loch Greshornish where again
we caught a couple of nice fish. We spent about 10 minutes surrounded
by porpoise which is a real priviledge! And, to end the day I had a
lobster! A great day and I'm glad Jez enjoyed it and saw how good the
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Sat 4th August 2007 - Booked a beat on
the River Snizort due to the excellent spate running. First time I've
fished this river and fish will have been running, but unfortunately I
didn't catch a salmon. Four fish came off the river that day
apparently which shows what good shape this river is in. The strong
gusting wind made life difficult and apart from a few pulls which I suspect
may have been from decent brown trout I struggled a bit. I've ordered
a sink tip line and a heavier intermediate to hopefully get my fly down to
cover the fish better. It's all a learning curve though and at least
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Wed 1st August 2007 - With the lack of
rain it's a case of taking the opportunities that arise so I went back to
the Sligachan River, thankfully the wind was manageable this time. The
previous day's spate was nearly gone so I headed right to the mouth and
worked my way back upstream as the tide flooded in. There were plenty
of sea trout moving up and at one point they were crashing all around me,
one or two fish pushing 2lb. Anyway, I failed to connect with a biggie
despite a couple of near misses and half hearted pulls. Very annoying!
I took two wee fish around the 6oz mark though and I could only buy a bite
on a size 14 Teal Blue and Silver single due to the lower water levels.
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Tue 31st July 2007 - Finally a good
downpour and a spring tide so with that I headed off to the Sligachan River
for 7pm. The river's catchment area is the Cuillin Mountain range and
the spate was really heavy, visibly rising whilst you were fishing.
The main problem was the howling wind which threatened to blow you over.
I gave in at one point as fly fishing was nigh on impossible on this exposed
river; it's pretty annoying when you know fish will be running but you
struggle to cover them in any way shape or form. Spinning would have
been a better idea. Anyway I moved and fished the road side bank just
on the edge of the tide and amazingly caught a lovely sea trout of about
10oz on a teal blue and silver double; not a big fish but it's a reasonable sea trout/finnock that, and the
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Mon 30th July 2007 - Fairly nice
evening wind wise so lifted the creels in and didn't get much and more
importantly no lobsters this time. Never mind. They have been
repositioned and hopefully I will do better later this week. The
mackerel have it seems arrived en masse in Loch Greshornish though as I had
a fish box full in no time across from the slipway. They were all
pretty small though. I had 20 mins with baited feathers round the
islands and thought I'd got a nice pollock or ling but it turned out to be
two big mackerel tangled together! At least I have plenty of pike and
creel bait and a few will be grilled tonight. |
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Wed 25th July 2007 - Monthly Storr
Lochs bank competition and again I got there a bit late on account of work,
but it didn't matter! A gusting wind made it tricky especially casting
right handed off the road side bank and the closest I came to a fish was at
about 9pm when I lost a real beauty. The fish came to a Blue Zulu just
on the lift off and jumped about so much it threw the hook. On
returning to the weigh in at 10:30pm I then realised everyone was in the
same boat as not one fish was caught. Strange, as with a southerly
blow you'd have thought conditions were good. |
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Sun 22nd July 2007 - Annual pike
competition on Loch Luichart and I retained the trophy I won last year with
the only fish of the day coming mid afternoon. The fish went 7lb and
came on a herring jack on a sunk float paternoster. I had another fish
which I lost at the net which was maybe a bit bigger - this one was partial
to a popped up lamprey section it seems. The midges were a nightmare
and for the second year the fishing was pretty difficult with one fish
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Sun 15th July 2007 - As I was away down
in York for the races my folks brought the pots in and the first lobsters of
the season were caught. Apparently it was a great day as the sea was
really calm and so a great day for spotting wildlife. Six basking
sharks at very close proximity and dwarfing the boat apparently, as well as
porpoise and eagles! Just another usual outing it seems! |
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Sat 7th July 2007 - A hellish night
weatherwise on the Storr Lochs for the Ewen Macrae Cup as the gusty swirling
wind made finding a suitable drift virtually impossible. 12 fishers
did battle with the elements and 11 fish were weighed in. It was
a very close finish between me and george and george and donnie, but our 3
fish edged it weighing 10oz more at 2lb 12oz. I took my 2 fish in the
creek, one on a dunkeld, the other on a cochy-y-bonddu. George got his
on the same drift, on a loch ordie i think. We threw a few back too, i
had a couple just under the 10" limit too. We were very suprised we
won and in the end went home that bit happier but as always great craic
during and after the match. |
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Thurs 5th July 2007 - A nice calm
evening but pretty drizzly and wet. Took the boat out at 7:30pm for a
couple of hrs to bring the creels in; a good few nice brown crabs and prawns
were had. Sea was too calm to drift for mackerel so I had to settle
for trolling feathers instead. Had a few mackerel but again pretty
difficult! I probably need to spend a whole day and get right out.
Tried a bit of bait fishing near the reefs round Eilean Mor, took a few
small pollock and coalie, most of which i put back, but nothing bigger and
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Mon 2nd July 2007 - First proper
attempt at catching some sea trout this season and with the first real
rainfall we've had I headed off to the lower reaches of the Varragil River.
There were certainly fish coming up on the high tide, some reasonable fish
too. It was hard work though and I never expect a pushover where sea
trout are concerned. I had one small finnock (a small sea trout) and a
salmon parr. Louie
was fishing the bridge and birch pools and had 3 finnock. Still,
promising to see the fish moving. Now we just need more rain more
often til the end of the season (what a killjoy!). It's ok if it's sunny and dry on a Sunday
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Sat 30th June 2007 - There's been some
fishing done this week! Today no exception as it was The Chairman's
Cup on the Storr Lochs. About 10 fishers and this was a singles match
not pairs. I fished alongside Louie in boat 10 and as usual it was a
pleasure to fish with him. There was a good mayfly hatch on and the
fish were everywhere. There was little wind though which made it difficult
despite the numbers of trout feeding. I caught three plump trout for
1lb 9oz all falling to the killer fly, the Loch Ordie. We caught a
good number of smaller fish too that went back. I came 4th and Davy
Urquart won it with 4 lovely fish for just shy of 4lb. |
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Fri 29th June 2007 - Took Clive out on
the boat again as they were going back on the Saturday. A bit rougher
this time but we fished the reefs round Clinigin Rocks and caught plenty of
pollock. I had a few fish but was well put in my place by Clive who
just seemed to have the knack tonight! He took 6 nice fish and was
going to freeze them and take back to Derbyshire to enjoy. Had a dozen
prawns from the pots once again very tasty indeed. Glad he had a great
time and a nice stay at Epona Cottage. You can come out fishing with
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Wed 27th June 2007 - Bank match on the
Storr Lochs. I think the phrase 'grueller' was made for this, blustery
wind, cold and raining. I think one 10" + fish was caught by the
hardy fishers, I managed one trout but it wasn't much bigger than the
Loch Ordie! One of them nights where you are glad to get home! |
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Tue 26th June 2007 - Again, took one of
the guests out sea fishing, this time on the boat on Loch Snizort.
Went out at about 7pm til 10pm on an outgoing tide. Clive managed a
lovely pollock near 6lb on a mackerel coloured shad and we had about another
half dozen or so pollock round the 2-3lb (a couple of small schoolies too)
mark on trolled jelly worms. Not a bad night for spotting wildlife as
it was pretty calm - we saw a few porpoise and three sea eagles along with
the usual array of puffins and razorbills. |
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Sun 24th June 2007 - Took one of our
guests staying at Epona Cottage to fish at Neist Point. First trip to
the point for me this season and the news i'd heard was correct as the
mackerel were shoaling just off the rocks. We had nearly 50 between us
on feathers, we took so many as I need some bait for my pots. We also
had a Ling and a few pollock and coalie to boot and luckily we saw a couple
of minkie whales too. Very enjoybale stuff. |
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Fri 22nd June 2007 - Storr Lochs boat
competition called the 'All Nighter'. Fished with George Bruce from
6-midnight and we had great fishing. We managed 12 trout and threw a
fair number of smaller samples back. The basket weighed over 6lb and
won us the trophy. Great crack with the lads from Inverness
afterwards, it was just a shame I had to drive! Virtually all my 5
fish came on the Estate drift on Loch Ordie - top dropper. I had a
couple on Pearly Invicta and Teal and Black too. George had three nice
fish off the point of the creek in the last 15 mins, well done that man!
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Thurs 21st June 2007 - Took the boat
out to fetch the creels in. 15 nice prawns and a couple of mackerel
for tea. Still struggling to find mackerel in large shoals. |
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Sat 17th June 2007 - Boat competition
on the Storr Lochs - all very civilised with a BBQ at lochside with plenty
of drams and beer to go around. Plenty of banter but on the whole I
struggled - the engine shear pin went so i was under oar power which makes
covering the drifts pretty difficult. Had a few wee trout but all
under the 10" barrier. James Colven won it with a nice basket of fish
and generally the numbers caught were up on the previous year. |
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Sat 10th June 2007 - First time out
since car accident so went out on the boat and managed a few mackerel from
Loch Greshornish, but it was too rough with the northerly wind to get out
any further. Had 15 prawns from the 9 creels, very tasty. |
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Sun May 20th 2007 - A decent day
weather wise and despite hangover me and my dad made it out to sea mid
afternoon. A little windy but the breeze was off the big cliffs so we
could tuck inshore and get right round to Score Bay. We had brilliant
fishing and the new black/fire tail jelly worms worked a treat trolling.
We had 6 decent fish round the point at Greshornish and then headed to the
scree and got two near double figure pollock on back to back trolls.
We then had enough pollock so tried for mackerel off Score Bay and although
I wasn't sure if they'd put in an appearance yet I had two out on feathers.
We didn't give it that long as I needed to check the creels. Did a bit
better with 3 large prawns and loads of crabs that were too small!
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Tues 15th May 2007 - Took Martin and
Carey out in the boat as they were over from Boston, USA for a few days.
We only got out for the evening and the weather meant we could only fish the
small islands at the head of Loch Greshornish which limited our chances
somewhat. It was hard work and Carey caught a nice pollock around 5lb.
Well done to her, a natural! Martin will just have to suffer the
mickey taking! Pulled the 5 pots out for the first time this year and
had nothing much - one large prawn and one decent brown crab which
were cooked up along with the pollock when we got home. |
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Sat 12th May 2007 - First heat of the
Cuillin Hills boat competition on the Storr Lochs. Pairs match so me
and Louis took on the other 11 teams on a bright and windy day.
Conditions looked excellent but the cooler north wind kept the fist down a
bit. I took two nice fish though, one a native brown trout of about 10
oz and the other a stockie brown trout of 1lb 4oz. Had 4 smaller
samples too which went back. Every fish on a Loch Ordie, top dropper.
Louis took a nice trout of about 12 oz too which meant we finished second,
just touched off by Alastair's boat but we made it through to the final and
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Sat 5th May 2007 - Quality couple of
days over near Inverness with Ginger and George from Portree Angling
Association. We fished the boat competition on the Saturday on Loch
Meig and between us caught 4 lovely brown trout for just shy of 6lb.
My two fish went 3lb 13oz and came on a small black viva style fly and a
claret bumble. We came 4th out of 14 teams overall so we were pleased
with our performance. Top weight fish went to a local boy and the
brownie he took on a goats toe weighed in just shy of 5lb. cracking
fish. All in all excellent stuff, great company and plenty of drams
afloat and at the pub after the match! |
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Monday 30th April 2007 - Piking at a
local loch on my way back from Ken. Managed two pike in the morning
but struggled in the heat and calm conditions. Biggest fish 6.5lb one
on a herring tail the other on a herring head. |
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Thurs 26th-29th April 2007 - First trip
to Loch Ken in Dumfries and Galloway. Lovely weather and good company
with Robbie from HPAC and some lads from the PAAS. Robbie had a 21lb
pike on the Wednesday and I was gutted I didn't see it! I ended up
catching 16 pike up to 8.5lb. Those caught on bait all fell to smelt
on simple running legers with no pop up. The others came using shallow
diving plugs. All in all a brilliant few days piking, shame I didn't
get a real biggie but I'll be back! |
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Mon 23rd April 2007 - Had a go on the
Varragil River near Portree from 7pm-9pm. Very good spate running, not
heard of this river having spring salmon but had a go anyway mainly to have
a practice at my casting and using new partridge rod. This is a lovely
river to fish and i never had a bite and spent a good while watching a small
falls for 30mins to see if fish we're running. but no, maybe the Snizort is
our only early season river? I don't know. |
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Sun 22nd April 2007 - Pike fishing
competition. Horrible weather near Achnasheen meant a grueller for all
concerned. We all blanked in the end and apart from 3 missed runs
early for Joel and Dougie, it was all very quiet. Strange, as this
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Sat 21st April 2007 - Fished my first
boat competition with Portree Angling Association. This was an individual
match but fished in boats in pairs. It's a qualifier match and top 6
go on to represent Portree AA on Loch Watten (Caithness) or Loch Meig (near
Achilty). About a dozen brave souls set out on Loch Leathen in
Atlantic conditions, several times we took a fair bit of water onboard!
Anyway we survived and me and George both caught fish, I squeezed in to fish
Meig with a brown trout of 12oz on a Claret Bumble; George got two similar
size on Kate McLaren's I think. I also put two smaller samples back
too. Match was won by Ginger with 4 fish for an impressive 4lb + (one
fish round 2lb mark), he had two on at once as well! |
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Tues 17th April 2007 - Fished Loch
Niarsco near Bernisdale. Larger hill loch and fished 7pm til 9pm and
had about 8 wild wee brown trout on a variety of flies like Black Zulu,
Bibio and Invicta. |
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Weds 4th April 2007 - Boat fishing at
sea round Ascrib Islands and Geary. Caught 10 pollock, released 3 all
caught trolling eels. Biggest fish approximately 3.5lb smallest about
1.5lb. Lovely flat calm sunny day, saw loads of seals and one sighting
of sea eagle. |
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Sun 1st April 2007 - Fished on my way
back from competition. Rough nights kip in car but rewarded with a
lovely day and a cracking pike weighing in at 14lb 12oz on popped up herring
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Sat 31st March 2007 - Highland Pike
Angling Club competition near Aviemore on a flat calm warm day. Not
the best conditions and maybe the pike were at their spawning grounds.
Maybe we are just rubbish at fishing as we all blanked. |
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Sun 25th March 2007 - Another nice calm
day so got the boat out on Loch Snizort. Set off to the Ascrib marks
and failed there so headed off to the Castle and found the pollock.
Decided to head back across to the islands to catch the tide running out and
caught some nice pollock. A great day and it was a bonus to see some
porpoise round Clinigin Rocks and two otters. |
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Sat 24th March 2007 - First fly fishing
trip of season. Was planning to do the walk in towards the lochs near
Ramasaig but found I couldn't take the dog on the hill so instead fished
nearby Loch Eishort. Very windy, sunny but cold. Managed to fish
most of the loch and had one wee brownie of about 6oz yet again caught on
the bob, this time a Black Zulu. Walked up to Loch Vorvin to try again
and catch a fish up there. Still weedy even in March and no sign of
fish again. May have been there in 70s/80s but not now, great view
though. |
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