Isle of Lewis sea trout fishing on the Gress River 

Fish or no fish, casting a fly on a moorland river or burn is a magical experience. Just being there is electrifying. I watched this with my own memories flooding back. Thanks for posting. 🇬🇧

Really enjoying your rambles in a starkly beautiful setting. Cheers from the USA!

Having spent many a holiday fishing in some of these places, it has been great to watch all your clips. Can’t wait to see where 2020 will take you and what you will catch. Thanks for creating and sharing these great videos!

It is a marvelleous place, indeed. Thanks .

A nice video.Its many years since I was a tourist in Lewis and Harris. Your videos make me want to go back as a fisherman.

Dear Caorach.......... What a lovely accent you have! A wee bit like Eamon on the telly? I see you can catch sea trout which are sometimes the most frustrating species to hook. I was a pal of one of the finest sea trout fishers who was Welsh. He fished the Glaslyn and the Dwyfor. He was put in the Trout and Salmon magazine in the eigties due to him catching 13 sea trout up to 51/2 lb before lunchtime when no other angler caught any. All were caught on worm which was the way to do it and I hope you don't condemn him or me for fishing with worms? Emryst Owen was the reporting bailiff there and he was a fisher himself and would never pat anyone on the back least of all me! We fished together on the Aven in Ballindalloch at that time and the first day I fished I did catch a salmon but I told Dick I had a severe problem in that I felt fish had taken hold of the small worm but had immediately 'let go'......... He said, I'll tell you something about Sea Trout and that is the word = instantaneous....... He also said that if you are not 'tuned up' and are not quick enough he won't 'come again'. I was basically a trout fly fisher but had a good grounding with bait and spinning but I already knew about the induced take re trout but not sea trout. Since he told me that word it became clear that not only sea trout but grilse will fall victim to a fly fished very quickly with a tight line........ It has always been extremely surprising to me that no matter how fast the fly moves and ofyten off the mark with a rapid movement a fish can catch it because 'they' acn move off the mark faster than any fisher can move that fly..... I wonder what they actually see? I once spoke to Arthur Oglesby and asked him is it not true a salmon will take a completely bare hook on a genuine take? "Oh yes he said I've done it"! I looked at my pal who was purposely at the side of me as he had suggested we go and introduce ourselves and ask him about the bare hook take. Very few anglers believed what I said and especially my CID sergeant fishing pal who never believed me when I told him that any fish will take a bare hook that is moving and appears to be 'swimming'. He had to believe what he saw once though when he watched me from behind a bush and saw the whole truth with his own eyes but that was long after the chat with Arther O! I used to fish for trout with a fine fisher whose fly was never ever 'still' in the water. he never fished with a slack line & yet there is ample advice from the so called experts who say fish with a slack line and some very successful salmon fishes advocate that method. Personally I have always thought that if a fish takes it will not need any slack line thrown at it and time and again my tight line method has seemed to work when nothing else will. Note Oliver Kite Nymph Fishing in Practice one of my favourite books of old. I firmly believe Arther Oglesby when he said ,it would take several lifetimes to know all there is to know about fishing but I notice falkus was 'experimenting with a small tube that moved vertically to catch 'uncatchable salmon'. I could never understand Oglesby when he appeared to stop fishing with a small heavy 'Bain's Bullet' which was in his first book but I can say that he was most definitely onto a winner with that one. 'Thanks Arthur' So finally anything that is brown and moves like an escaping shrimp will do fine by me but sometimes a rapid exit as well but the bailiffs will never understand that method is not intended to foul hook!

Great vid, what length rod and weight of fly line are you using if you don’t mind? Your casting looks effortless.

Might be better at night for the sea trout or not on that river?

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