A few hours fishing from my Rover inflatable on Loch Etive – chilly but otherwise a beautiful day, with a few thornbacks and spurdogs appearing to keep things interesting.
Category: West Coast
Anything relating to Scottish west coast and sea lochs, and exploring and fishing them. This is a catch-all category for posts that don’t fall neatly into one of my usual fishing grounds. For example, posts about Loch Etive are shown in a category of that name. For SW Scotland have a look at Galloway.
22 Jan 2011 – Loch Sunart
First time out on the boat for months, thanks to weeks of snow and ice. A bit disappointing in terms of fish, but great to be out once more and blow away a few cobwebs. Judging by the other boats out I wasn’t the only one keen to get on the water again.
20 November – Loch Etive
A fairly typical day at Etive, with decent numbers of thornback and small spurs showing – plus my first ever tagged spurdog recapture. And don’t forget a few mussels picked up for dinner later in the week – a little bonus for the effort spent getting a boat too and from the west coast.
15th August – Loch Etive
More like a family fishing day than my usual efforts, with two kids and a dog for company. Plenty of tiddler spurdogs for amusement, plus a little barbie on the beach miles from anywhere. Lots of sunshine too, so a great day out before it’s back to school next week…
4th April 2010 – Etive
Weather: Warm in the sunshine, but some cool and windy spells Sea Conditions: Calm Tides: Time Spent: 09:30 – 16:30 – 7 hours Took Mike and Bonnie (the dog) over to Etive for a few hours at the start of the Easter holidays. The fishing was fairly poor but we had a modest selection of… Continue reading 4th April 2010 – Etive
7th March 2010 – Etive
Weather: Chilly with a light SE wind and mainly overcast. Wind less than 10mph all day Sea Conditions: Calm Tides: 11:36 1.3m Time spent: 0900-1700 – 8 hours Started off at Inveresregan in about 210 feet, and maybe 150 yards from shore. Fishing was slowish – quite a lot of small rattles, probably from whiting… Continue reading 7th March 2010 – Etive
24th January 2010 – Oban
Weather: Light N/NE wind F1-2. Dry, cold with some sunny intervals Sea Conditions: Slight – a little chop at times Time Spent: 0945-17:00 – 7:15 Tides: 11:15 GMT – 3.1m Taking advantage of a break in the winter weather Ian and I towed Alcatraz westwards to have a crack at Oban and the chance of… Continue reading 24th January 2010 – Oban
6th December 2009 – Loch Sunart
Third and last day of our sojourn to Sunart, and the weather pretty much killed it as the wind rose to a three quarters gale and the anchor eventually couldn’t hold us properly. Only a handful of fish to show for our efforts before we called it quits in the early afternoon.
5th December 2009 – Loch Sunart
Day 2 of our Sunart trip, and Ian and I had a reasonable day with spurs and conger. Still not a patch on earlier years on the loch though 🙁 At least the Salen Hotel offers good food and friendly place to drown your sorrows!
4th December 2009 – Loch Sunart
Ian and I decided on a three day trip across to Sunart in search of spurdog and skate, the latest in a long line of weekends spent across there. Day 1 proved to be fairly slow, although I did winch up a skate from over 400 feet of water on a spinning rod – pity it was only 10lbs or so in weight!