A remarkable brown trout fishing day
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- Опубликовано: 12 окт 2024
- On an amazing early September day I set off to fish an isolated loch out on the moorland on the Isle of Lewis. This loch is extremely interesting, as I explain in the video, and I've fished it many times over the years. So, pour yourself a cup of tea and join me on the voyage of discovery.
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Rumour, that would be me then. So glad you eventually caught a fish. Keep up the good work Philip. 👍😃
I don't want to reveal my sources! Of course I'd have to ask some questions about how you knew fish had suddenly appeared in it :-)
😂loved the attack of the man eating ants mate …top job staying calm (ish) 😎….and success …really enjoyed it thanks very much
Thank you Rick, at least the ants didn't carry me off to their ant cave and eat my fishing rod :-)
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Beautiful spot... nothing like hiking up to a hill loch that few people ever bother with, keep'em coming Philip
It is very rarely visited due to the fact there's been no fish in it for 30 years now and to be honest I can't see many people climbing up there for the chance of catching one of the few fish that are in there. However, during September the wind was very calm most days and it was a struggle to get even a hint of a wave on the lower lochs so it was handy to have this as an option.
I never realised your fly life was so ant tea fishing 😅 I'll get my coat.
I've never been mobbed by ants on Lewis before Chris. The good news is that they didn't do me any harm and I was already covered in the anti-midge stuff so they didn't seem keen on me.
Another great and entertaining video flying ants,bananas and cup of tea amazing scenery and a fish on a loch you have always blanked. Keep them coming Philip 👍🏼
Thank you Tony, it was a great day out and I'm just amazed at getting a fish out of that loch.
Nice wee video. Thanks for sharing.
Glad you enjoyed it.
I wonder if you should try a very fast retrieve. I fished loughs in connemara, which after fishing for several hours turned nothing. Upon reeling in, I caught a 1lb trout. Thereafter I retrieved like the clappers and caught quite a few.
I've seen that happen myself and I do sometimes vary the retrieve speed quite a bit but on this loch I don't think there are a huge number of trout in here and so on a bright day with a cold northerly wind finding a taking fish is probably going to be tricky.
Great video Phil. Exploring is good. Testing out if somewhere might have a fish and as you say if you don't catch one so what, you have had a great hike. But you did. They may grow on well with less competition and possibly if its windy and gets enough action over shallow banks with gravel, they might spawn but lack of burn a problem. You fish like I do with an 11' rod, far more control (dabbling from the bank) and can use for the boat as well.
I like the 11 foot rod and I like a soft rod as often you can lift it and cast again without needing to false cast as the rod loads really quickly, not really important on the lochs but a really handy thing on the salmon rivers. It will be interesting to see if they spawn, in view of timescales I'm sort of inclined to suspect that they may have spawned already but I also suspect that the loch probably can't stand many trout being killed from it as the population may not be viable if the numbers are very low.
I like to believe that Nature finds a way. There is a theory (myth?) that waterfowl can unwittingly transport fertilised fish eggs on their feet from locations with fish to those without. Either way, it is particularly rewarding to catch fish in a tarn which reputedly has none - it happened to me last year in Cumbria. The moral of the tale? It's always worth a cast.
I've heard a range of theories and stories as to how fish eggs might get transported but I think the simplest and most logical explanation is that persons unknown took fish from the closest loch and drove (by Argocat or quad) them up to this loch. Of course I can't be 100% certain that there weren't a few fish left in this loch and that they spawned and produced the fish I'm now seeing but this seems highly unlikely in view of the efforts I've put in over maybe 30 years. Sometimes we do have lochs that are very dour so it is possible to fish them and get nothing but, again, I'm pretty sure that wasn't the case with this loch. Hopefully I will get to go back over the next few years and see if the fish are still there, or if they die out.
I fish reservoirs high in the South Pennines, admittedly for stocked trout with just a few wild brownies also.
The flying-ant time (April/May) is an excellent time to dry-fish the excellent imitation patterns available. You can stalk a fish by following its progress under the surface, and then an accurate cast to a well predicted spot nearly always succeeds.
Of course, you need to see signs of fish beforehand, but occasionally, an ant simply cast and twitched about occasionally can provoke a take without any fish showing. Usually, this is either a violent take or an extremely gentle one, always taking me completely by surprise.
D.B.
The whole ant thing was a little unexpected and they were only present for maybe 5 minutes or so meaning it is probably not going to have a huge impact upon fishing tactics. However, it was interesting to see it up there as I've seen it before in other places but never on Lewis. I didn't realise that fishing ants was a realistic tactic in some areas and have to guess that with our fish seeing almost zero fishing pressure then once they are looking up to the surface they may not be too particular about what they take.
Thanks for your thoughts.
These reservoirs are high up at 900 to 1000 ft, but the Moor-tops are higher still and those ant swarms are from off of the moor. You can count on the ants at April/May time, albeit in short but hefty hatches. Their black colour makes them easily spotted from 50 yds away, and the trout. have no difficulty either.
D.B.
Look at those midges!
They aren't midges, it took me a while to catch on but they are flying ants.
@@caorach3354 crikey, that’s a lot of ants!
That lake seems hard enough to get to on a perfect day , I honestly can’t see anybody going to the of fort of hauling up a big heavy busket of water with trout in it to put in that lake. The waterfowl do transfer fish eggs from rivers to lakes it’s a scientific fact. Thats how they got there.
You'd be amazed at the mount of bucket biology that takes place all across Scotland even on extremely remote lochs. Carrying fish up here would be difficult if there weren't more quads and argos on Lewis than there are people. The fish being introduced by waterfowl, although physically possible, seems highly unlikely in this case especially when the habits of the bucket biologists are well known and well documented.