I was fishing there, and I was a happy man. Thank for your videos and tight line!

@caorach3354

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it.

Loved the video. Beautiful place to fish, no people and great fish. What a day out ! Just what Scottish loch fishing is about. Thanks for sharing.

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Peter, I'm glad you enjoyed it as in my view it is simply the best fishing and wild sport you can get. So many people expect to catch big fish, or lots of fish, with no effort these days and as I get older I do appreciate that I will not always be able to walk 6 hours to a loch but while I'm able I will be putting in as much effort as I can to get to these wild places.

Enjoyed every second watching this. Captures exactly what it's all about. Just listenung to the fish breaking the water surface! Ahhh bliss!!!

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Steven, glad you enjoyed it. Although it was a very long walk it was a fantastic day out with so much to see, and hear, and do.

Well played. These were very nice trout you encountered, and not what we would call small for Highland fish. Thanks for sharing your walk.

@caorach3354

4 жыл бұрын

Glad you enjoyed it Jon, we are very lucky in having many hundreds of brown trout lochs so we have a lot to chose from and walking to the more remote ones can be a wonderful experience especially on a lovely autumn day.

Six hour walk, you must love your fishing 🎣

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

It isn't real sport if it isn't hard work :-)

A lovely looking spot you would never find a place so empty on our waters great video

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it Bob. This loch is about 6 hours walk (round trip) from the nearest access point, and even that is only accessible if you have a 4WD. Given that it doesn't get a lot of fishing pressure, there are the very occasional visitors but I would imagine it can go for years without being fished.

"Fantastic trout",I couldn't agree more.

Great videos, really enjoying them, many thanks for posting. Best Trout loch in Lewis, Sgeireach Na Creige Brist on the Tolsta / Ness moor. Difficult loch, but holds specimens.

@caorach3354

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you John, as you can see they are just my "holiday snaps" so they aren't high quality but I like to keep them nice and slow paced and am always pleased when someone enjoys them. I've fished most lochs south west of the Gress River down to the Garynahine/Achmore road but only a few north east of the Gress, mostly the ones between the Gress and Diridean. I've only done a few beyond the Bridge to Nowhere, full of good intentions but lacking in time!

@johnmaclean9318

4 жыл бұрын

@@caorach3354 Best holiday you can get, nothing to compare with it. Really worth trying a Claret Sedgehog on the bob, and a Silver Goats Toe on the tail, size 12. It has improved my fishing for trout, so much that i rarely use any other pattern. Tight Lines!.

@caorach3354

4 жыл бұрын

@@johnmaclean9318 It is funny you saying that - I've always been a dark flies person, 30 years of casting a Black Pennell and a Zulu. However in the last few years I've found a few lochs where the Goats Toe and something like a Soldier Palmer work when nothing else will. This goes against my natural instinct to tie on a black thing, but it has also given me a few nice fish. On the other hand I've gone from fishing a full floating line to fishing a line with an intermediate tip so I'm no longer working flies on the surface, and I think this has helped.

@davids9549

4 жыл бұрын

@@caorach3354 I take a floating line to which I attach either a floating (usually), intermediate (sometimes), or sinking (occasionally) poly leader, depending on conditions.The choice of fly seems to matter less than how it's fished.

@caorach3354

4 жыл бұрын

@@davids9549 I do something pretty similar but use one of the Rio Versatip lines - very expensive but I didn't really get on with the poly leaders. In terms of fly then I used to be convinced that it didn't really matter but of recent years I'm fishing a few lochs where bright flies really make a difference for some reason.

Brilliant stuff good catch 👍🏻😊

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed it. Hopefully there will be a few more days out this season but with the current weather plus lockdowns things are a bit tricky :-)

@natureexpeditions

3 жыл бұрын

@@caorach3354 you’re welcome I know it’s been a long wait. Weather is not looking great at the moment especially for this time of the month. Looking forward to this year season 😊

Hello from Southern California USA

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Hello from the wild Atlantic coast of Scotland :-) I don't think the two locations could be any more different which is what makes the world interesting.

The best brown trout loch in the Hebrides is whichever one I'm fishing!

Hi there just found your Video Channel ,going though them one by one. I live in Labrador City,Labrador, Canada.I am try to work out the fly rod you are using i have no idea and want fly line, do you use with it. love to know want kind of fly your use too. lol thanks again great videos.

@caorach3354

4 жыл бұрын

Hi Dave, thanks for your comment. A few people have said I should make a video about the gear I use but, really, I use whatever is handy and don't much worry about it so it wouldn't be a very good video. However, maybe once all this COVID stuff goes away I will get around to making, as best I can, a gear video. The rod is an 11 foot Leeda Volare IV for a 7 weight line and I use this rod for almost all my fishing at the minute. The line is one of those Rio Versitip lines so I can change the sink rate of the tips to suit as I use the same rod and line setup for salmon and sea trout. I also have an 11 foot Leeda Volare IV for a 4 weight line that gets some use as well but it isn't so good in the wind.

Hi again, that should read olive green para-cord and it’s great for boot laces I’ve used this cord for years and it’s good strong stuff.

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you Jim, I did consider paracord but to be honest these boots are pretty much at the end of their useful life and will be retired soon anyhow. Apart from a few niggles, including breaking laces, they were comfortable and very supportive but breaking laces all the time really annoyed me especially when it was such a stupid mistake in the design.

Great video again, I wanted to ask are you from Lewis originally because your accent sounds really northern irish-ish

@caorach3354

3 жыл бұрын

Hi Ruairi, glad you enjoyed the video. You are correct and my accent is indeed from Northern Ireland but these days I generally fish on Lewis as the choice is almost infinite and there are very few restrictions on where you go, or what you can do, so it suits my style of fishing.

6 hours?! Jeepers, most people don’t wanna fish much more than 6 minutes from the car these days.

@caorach3354

2 жыл бұрын

I'm afraid it is true everywhere these days in that people seem to have lost touch with the idea that sport is supposed to be difficult for it to be good sport. So many people want guaranteed numbers of fish of a size bigger than their mate caught last week and they don't want to work for it. We've lost sight of what it is supposed to be about, there aren't many these days who are willing to walk to hundreds of lochs in the hope that they might find that special loch where real wild trout might average 2lb.

Hi there, get some para-cord you’ll get 100m love green for £8 at Military Mart, hope this helps Jimf

I live in leurbost and need to go here lol where is it?

@caorach3354

Жыл бұрын

You really don't need to go here as it is a long, long walk and you aren't short of good fishing close to home :-) As you might imagine I generally don't name lochs. Often I'm fishing lochs that only make small fish or that are really very dour so, in part, people really don't need to be marching out to them as they are no better than lots of other places but it is also the case that I don't want to encourage lots of people to be hitting particular lochs when there are so many very good options. In your case Crogabhat is a way better option, dour but decent fish. In due course there might be a Crogabhat video.

Six hours one way ?

@caorach3354

2 жыл бұрын

No, 3 out and 3 in. This was late in the season so the days are pretty short for such long walks at that time of year so I was only really on the loch long enough for a few casts and some lunch. Great day out though.

Sedge

Better than grogary or stiliagry? Must be some loch to beat the machairs

@caorach3354

Жыл бұрын

The Uists tend to sell their trout fishing, whereas Lewis and Harris focus on the salmon and sea trout, plus they have a few big lochs with easy road access etc. Lewis trout fishing tends to involve a bit of walking plus a bit of work in finding the lochs that are fishing well so it is a completely different thing, there are lochs on Lewis where a 2lb trout is normal and a much bigger one always a possibility but getting such fishing usually requires some effort.