Urigil used to be part of AAG but hasn't been for a while. It is part of the Oykel Bridge Hotel fishing (but I think that is only for residents) and Ledmore estate also have a boat I believe. I understand that Ledmore has recently changed hands and it is not yet known how they will organise their fishing, but we'll update here if we hear anything!
I used to fish veiatie cam and urigil about 12/15 years ago, and I'm coming back up soon with my sons and will be looking to fish cam. Can you tell me if permits are bought online, and most importantly is there still a wee cafe with just four tables on left side of harbour road, where you could get a cooked breakfast at 7.30 on a Saturday morning?.
had a go on the boat at east end of the loch. Fished up to the castle and over to the south side. Not a lot of bites, but boated a hard fighting dark trout of around 1.5lb , and finished with a 6oz fish. Cracking day. Both fish safely returned.
I've fished the entire river twice, once in high water and once low. The first time the water was high and I think I got 3, no great size. The second time I caught more but again, no great size.
Fished this loch last year in the second week of May, 2024 for the first time. This was my second ever visit to Assynt. Landed what was, still is, and potentially always will be, my biggest brown trout at just shy of 24 inches second cast in the shallow bay on the southern bank at the eastern end. There was a westerly wind blowing right down the loch and I had a small PTN on. A day I will never forget. I'd left my landing net on top of the car at the car park and only realised once I had the fish on. Luckily I was wearing waders and was able to land it by hand. I don't think I could have done that in many other places anywhere on the loch as it gets deep very quickly in most places. Other than that I never saw a rise or a fish move for the next three hours. I'll be back in June this year though I don't expect to catch anything like that fish again. I may not even fish Lochan Sgeireach again, just so I don't taint the memory.
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Fished from noon until about 2.30pm. Heavy rainy at times, grey and overcast. Brisk breeze from SW. Fished from SW corner along same bank for about half a mile. Rotated through a range of wets. Saw nothing move or rise - and nothing touched the fly. Small hatches but not enough to raise anything. Exceptionally beautiful loch, delightful track to the loch. So all was not in vain!
Fished for 90 minutes along SE and S shore from 8.30PM. Brisk wind from SW. Nothing doing at all. Then a 15" (1.25lb) fine fish on debarbed, size 10, Zulu wet. Put straight back. Only interest of the evening and very content with it!
I've fished it a couple of times, once with lots of water and once when the water was low. It's an interesting place to fish as in parts it almost turns into a loch itself. That said, while there was enough happening to keep me entertained the fish tended to be quite small.
Beautful walk and surroundings caught 4 lovely fish all returned safely, largest on the 1lb mark and on deep fished nymph - very strange what is happening to Loch Torr nan Uidhean as the level must be down c10/15 feet and significant areas around the loch now very exposed including some of the islands - it makes it very clear how risky wading would have been around the edges of this loch - I can only presume that it is feeding into Loch na Loinne which inturn is feeding in to Loch Poll and then into the Assynt Crofters Hydro System - caught a stunning fish with massive red markings.
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