Loch a Ghlinnen

Fished this loch for a few hours late yesterday afternoon. Weather was overcast and up there the wind was blowing stiffly from the SW. As such casting was tricky down the N and S sides and impossible in the E windward end. However, I managed a good few trout mainly from the leeward W end and the W end of the N and S banks. These trout were fairly small. I had two of about half a pound and a dozen or so at closer to a 1/4 lb. I hooked, but lost what felt like a much better trout around the inflowing burn mouth. When fishing wets trout were mainly coming to the bob, which was either an olive sedgehog (size 12), black crow (size 10) or olive French partridge (size 10). However, I had most of the fish by fishing the sedgehog on it's own as a dry. The fish here were freely rising although smaller on average than I had anticipated, then again midsummer does not generally produce average bags of the same size as the spring or autumn. The scenery on walk in and bag is fantastic. I would advise anyone making the trip there to fish from the bank to take waders, both for crossing the burns, which are currently quite high, but also to facilitate fishing the shallower west end. I didn't and regretted it! Tight lines, Matt