Loch Hope 2024
Two 3-day trips, 29-31 July and 2-4 September.
Loch Hope, 28-30 August 2023
Harder than Steven Hawking’s homework on Monday, with breeze trying to be easterly, which South End just doesn’t do. Weather all over the shop as well. Tuesday morning better, but the afternoon was a hard shift. Weather still very variable. Wednesday much, much better! Breeze northerly, but steady. Beat 1 in the morning and Beat…
Loch Hope, 31 July-02 August, 2023
Our poorest trip to date. Five fish between us for 3 days hard effort – and no sport apart from the fish caught. Weather maybe didn’t help – easterly winds and air temp away below water temp. But still… loch was a good height. But we were not seeing fish – it felt like they…
Loch Hope, 23-25 August, 2021
Three days on South End. Very hard going, with a lot of calm conditions and a full day of bright sun… and the water just under 19 C in late August.
Loch Hope, 24-26 August, 2020
Loch amazingly low – while everyone to the south had been suffering deluges… up here… nothing! Midges amazingly bad – a thing, apparently. Monday – we saw lots of fish – many fresh, despite the water levels. However, they were not for playing. Someone suggested they were put off by Storm Francis approaching. Tuesday –…
Loch Hope, 3-5 August 2020
A decent day on Beat 1 on Monday, followed by 2 days of very windy and dreich weather, which seemed to put the sea trout right off. Thankfully, a couple of 5 lb grilse saved the last day on Beat 3. Video of the 2nd grilse coming in…
Loch Hope, 2019
A week of very unsettled weather, with wet days, sunny days, windy days, calm days, hot days, cold days, a day when we had to get off quick half way through… everything under the sun. Not unexpectedly, the fishing was a mix of good, bad and indifferent. Forty five fish for the week – about…
