the 3rd day of our annual assynt trout fishing holiday and we awoke to a beautiful day at last. after taking a hearty fry up in the excellent newly re-opened lochinver mission we set off to loch bealach na h-uidhe. a long walk but at least the path was good. we spotted rising trout in fleodach coire and the fiddle loch, so the omen's were good. we arrived at our destination and found good fish rising all over the loch with what looked the best fish out of range in the middle, there was a good hatch of large olives and we took fish close in fishing a dry fly left static. my mate faired best with four trout the best being over 2 lbs and his best assynt trout to date(we've been coming 10 years), it took a long time to land and was released to fight another day along with his other two 3/4 pounders and one of about 1 1/2 lbs. i lagged behind with two of about 3/4 lbs which fought like tigers and were also released un-harmed. the scenery in this part of assynt is worth the walk alone, so to catch some nice trout aswell was an added bonus. roll on 2012.
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