Another fairly big walk in to another cracking loch. Had two or three hours here on a lovely dramatic day where the thunder clouds that were creating a deluge over the Cromalt Hills thankfully were only forming overhead. That said, the westerly wind was swirling around the loch creating casting havoc! However, with the warm sunny breaks large olives were hatching, which was bringing up as steady rise across large areas of the loch. Most of the trout looked pretty decent, although many were beyond casting range. I managed five fish between 10 ounces and just over a pound, probably averaging about 3/4lb. These fish are fit, round shouldered and healthy specimens. I returned most of the catch as it's only a wee loch. I am tempted to drag the float tube up there after watching some pretty decent looking fish throwing themselves at the olives out near the middle. First fish fell to an oliver buzzer fished static. The others all fell to a size 12 Adam's. Beautiful light and scenery. Red throated diver chicks on one of the wee lochans near by. Ring ouzel on the rocky slopes, and eagles being mobbed by raven on the mountains behind. Another cracking day out.
Quite a long but always evident walk to this corrie loch. I fished there only on dry flies two hours on the 31th of August, all alone but two deers. First, nothing during one hour, but some trout were rising on the loch. Then, a nice one came to my grey Adams (thanks for the tip, Matt, in your 11th August comment...) and struggled before I could land it. It weighted just one lb. Unfortunatly, deep hooked, this beautiful fish couldn't recover (it's the only one I haven't release during these last two weeks...) Ten minutes later, another one, 1 lb 1/4, came to the same fly. It's quite incredible, for a french fly-fisherman, to see such big fishes in such a remote and small loch. You just need good legs, a little bit patience and probably luck... Got some small ones on the back trip in the Fleodach Coire.
Jérôme D.
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