I promised a few of you I would write a few lines about my recent trip to South Uist.
Let me just say that it is a wonderful place with great people, I dont think I was ever made more welcome anywhere in the world. My liver is just coming to terms with the Guinness again after the battering it got from the Wee Dram's.
It's an amazing set of water systems out there, a real fisherman's paradise but like everywhere else so much depends on the weather. We had a real mix throughout the week with gale force winds, flat calm's and bright sunshine - not good sea trout weather by any means. I did however manage to pull fish out everyday and learn a few things along the way. We had one day with some cloud cover and a steady breeze and we have ~ 12 sea trout and 30/40 browns between us.
I asked some time back on here about methods etc and the majority of the replies were based around wet fly. Well let me tell you, as I predicted dry flies worked a treat on my final day (when I finally got to fish them). My boat partner had Salmon on the Blob's and the biggest sea trout the week before fell to a Corrib regular on the Dap! I never got my 10lb'er but that's ok, I'd have been happy with a 10oz'er!
So, majic place, magic people, magic liver, magic nurofen.
Here's a few pic's (if I can manage to up load them)













I hope you enjoyed them,
Gavan

Nice photos Gavan ,I'm glad you enjoyed your trip mate.

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Fabulous pictures Gavan. The Uists are some of the most fishy looking places I have visited. I only had the opportunity of a couple of hours fishing on North Uist on a recent visit. Your pictures remind me of why I want to go back.

It looks lovely Gavan.

I saw a video of fishing in the Hebrides a while back, it looks stunning.

It featured a lot of fly fishing for salmon in the sea, did you try that?

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No, Just the estuary. But I did take time to have a look around the coast and it's perfect for sea trout on the west side. Very shallow shelf for miles off shore, great feeding, reef's etc. I was speaking to one of the locals about it and its largely unexplored. The saltwater gear will definitely be going back with me next time round. One of the reasons the sea trout fishing is so good is that it's too exposed on the west side for salmon farms so they can cruise the coast pretty freely and try and avoid the seals. I don't know about the salmon, I would'nt mind seeing that program though, is it readily available on DVD?
Regards,
Gavan

I don't know if this is the one he was referring to but it's a cracker:
http://www.salmonfilms.com/

Thanks Tony,
Looks great.
Gavan

glad you had a good time.the dvd 'atlantic salmon a life on the edge' is great and apart from the music getting on my nerves was exellent.highly recommended.some of the underwater shots are stunning.

jim

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Thats the one Jim, a truly excellent watch.

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