I am a newcomer to the forum, and I'd like some advice.

I am a keen fly-fisher for trout. Because I live in the south of England I do mostly dry-fly fishing. However, when I can get away one of my favourite aspects of trout-fishing is wet-fly loch fishing and I've done quite a lot of that in the Isle of Jura.

The father of a friend of mine has seen some of our photographs from Jura and would like to take his grandson on a trip through the west of Scotland (probably not the islands) and take in a few days' loch fishing.

Can anyone recommend any B&B's or hotels with nearby decent loch fishing - either day-ticket or, probably preferably, wild lochs that anyone can walk up to and have a flick?

I'd be very grateful and if you are good enough to answer, forgive me if I have a few follow-up questions like whether there are any particular tactics that work wherever you suggest and better times of year and so on.

Thanks in advance.

Welcome to the forum. Lived in London for thirty years, but glad I don't any more. I hope you get the advice you need. Unfortunately I don't live near Scotland, but I'm sure our scottish memebers will help you out for advice or anyone familiar with fishing the area.

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Welcome and Enjoy the forum.
Im sure the members welcome all questions.

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Get yourself located in Lochinver and fish the Assynt lochs.You will not regret it.

Jim

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All depends on exactly where on the west coast you mean?

If they are prepared to travel further north, then Ullapool is not a bad place to start. There are some excellent, friendly B&B's with a multitude of lochs and burns to fish within 20 minutes to an hours travel.

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Jim was obviously on my wavelength here. The Assynt lochs, and the Coiagh lochs (on the way to Assynt) are magical.

Thanks for that advice - very helpful so far. I've just had a look at the Assynt Angling website and it looks very much the sort of thing I'd like to recommend, in fact it looks like a complete dream of a place - I note in particular that they say that shore fishing works and refer to walking into the fishing. I prefer that sort of fishing and I don't like to have to rely upon waders or boats so I like lochs where the fish will take close in and bank fishing isn't greatly limited by reeds - I can see that there are a lot of lochs in Assynt, but is my sort of bank fishing feasible there?

My friends are not from the UK and I'm not sure that they'll want to go too far north, I'll find out, but if anyone has any recommendations further south that would be great too.