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
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.
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