Author: Mick

For me my first outing to Talybont heralds the Spring.  The clocks have leapt forward, lighter evenings are here and the drabness of another wet and weary Winter can be put behind us.

South Uist’s West Ollay  – I’m determined that one day this will be my favourite loch. This should be the place where my dreams come true.

My love affair with Corrib began shortly after my traumatic break up with my first true love, the sea trout lochs of Sutherland.

Fishing Loch Stack in the early 1970’s I judge myself to have been amongst the lucky ones.  Privileged to witness Stack in its final years as a great loch.

It would be around 7:30 and the switch had just been flicked. Only five minutes earlier the gentle ripples had been frustratingly undisturbed but now in ever increasing numbers rising trout were dimpling the surface in all directions. The rise had begun.

It’s August, which for me means a year of waiting is almost over, a return to South Uist is due. Fishing South Uist has many wonders, but for me its greatest are its sea trout – because it still has them, and has managed to escape the salmon cage imposed carnage inflicted on their mainland brethren.