I had heard that this loch can be dour and difficult but was on holiday 5 minutes away so thought I would give it an end of September go. Overcast skies with light south westerly winds, I started on the south shore at about 2pm. The water is deep around most of the shoreline and wading is not needed or safe by all accounts. I had fished around the loch with not a single pull. Eventually, I put a small black nymph on point and a muddler hopper on the dropper. At 5pm as I approached the north-west shore (facing the boat beach), I had my first little brownie. A gloriously dark speckled but lean fish. And then with almost every other cast, I had a pull or fish to the pound. The north shore into the wind around the shallows and sparse reeds produced fish on the top and below the waterline. I found the north end shallows and small headlands at that end of the loch to be productive especially using a floating line and figure of eight retrieve.
Leave your car at the entrance to the track and don't have leaky wellies (as I do) as the land around the loch is boggy. I stayed away from the private area of the lake that is demarcated by broken wire fences down to the waters edge. This is a truly wild place, not too big (a boat is available), but easy to get to and you are likely to be the only one there.
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