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
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.
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!
8th November 2009 – Loch Etive
Weather: Cold;some long sunny intervals; light or no wind Sea Conditions: Calm Time Spent: 0915-1815 – 9 hours Tides: 11:00 GMT Etive was looking at its best yesterday morning – clear skies, bright sunshine reflecting off the snow on the mountains, and a virtually calm sea loch. Just to balance things a little, it was… Continue reading 8th November 2009 – Loch Etive
4th October 2009
Weather: Generally good, with a fair bit of sunshine. Initially no wind, later a F2-3 Sea Conditions: Calm, lot of fresh water on surface (esp near head of loch) Time Spent: 0830-1830 – 10 hours Tides: 0743 GMT – 1.9m Started off at Ardchattan, using a small groundbait block alongside the anchor. This produced immediate… Continue reading 4th October 2009
18th March 2009 – Loch Sunart
Weather: Calm or light W/NW wind. Dry and mainly sunny. Lovely day Sea Conditions: Calm Time Spent: 0750-1830 – 11 hours Tides: HW 0930 – small tide Launched at Strontian and set creels before starting to fish. I tried 5 marks during the day but the results were very poor, with only doggies and a… Continue reading 18th March 2009 – Loch Sunart