I have fished this loch for the last 34 years and it never fails to surprise me with some great quality fish one year and a skinny black eel trout the next. Climbed the wonderful Suilven in Late May 2009 and dropped down the Na Barrack side but kept my first cast for this loch and rose and returned a beautiful 3lb fish. It was in good shape and will be at least 1/2lb bigger this year in my dreams.Only one cast needed all day but plenty of larger required for the 9 hour trek
After a stormy week, I took advantage of this wet but calm day to explore this unnamed loch today. The path was very muddy and for that tiring, especially for the back-trip and the never ending walk around Fionn Loch. Hiking there, it sometimes looks more like Michael Jackson's moonwalk than the classical John Muir style (great fun for all the deers I've met...) Anyway, it took exactly two hours without any stop, as Cathel MacLeod's book said, to be at the loch. A very few fish rising. Made some cast but no result. So, I decided to head to the many unnamed lochans -one has a name, but only on the 1/25 000 map...- at the footstep of Suilven (it takes a more 15 minutes from the unamed loch). Beautiful black mountain lakes, sometimes connected through streams with waterfalls, Suilven overlooking you. Lots of rising fishes everywhere ! In one, I took quite small trouts ; in a second one, average fishes -around 9-10 inches-, with magnificent shapes and spots ; in a third one -find out which one !-, I had six vigorous trouts around 12 or 13 inches, leaping when hooked, in half an hour. All taken with a quite small grey dry Adams (but I'm not sure the feature of the fly is that important in those conditions) and all released. A very nice experience. But clouds and fog were coming always closer and so it was time to go back. On my way back, I crossed a dozen of deers bathing in a tarn, a golden eagle and a heron. A good day, indeed...
Jérôme D.
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