Sutherland Adventure Part four: Clashfern, the weather turns
Clashfern, smaller trout but two nice wee lochs and a short but hard walk.
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Category: Trips
Sutherland Adventure Part Three: Rain, more rain ….and midgies, lots and lots of midgies
Back on to the cross country hiking to access fishing waters today. I was allocated a beat called White Rocks which is directly behind Loch Stack Lodge at the west end of Loch Stack and under the 720 metre heights of Ben Stack.
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Sutherland Adventure Part Two: Loch na Thull
An easier day on a boat at Loch na Thull, being near to “civilization” I thought it might be hard going and not have much to offer. I was told it can be dour. In the end it was brilliant fun.
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Sutherland Adventure Part One
This years fishing trip is to the Assynt area of the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.
I had never fished here though and it has been a long time ambition to fish a couple of the literally hundreds of Brown trout occupied lochs and lochans in this area.
A quirk of fate made it happen this year and the trip is underway. I am being a bit of a Kenny “nae mates” being up here on my lonesome but it does mean I can do my own thing to my own timetable and with my own particular brand of faffing about, without bothering anyone.
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When old is better than new
One of the reasons I have always disliked tying this fly ( easy though it is) is the use of silver tinsel as the body rib. I often resort to silver wire as the oval tinsel you get these days is frankly crap. I find I invariably manage to strip the coating off it, as it seems to be some sort of fine thread “coated” with a tinsel skin.
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