Loch Shiel!!
take plenty of Autan - midge hell!
need to be down the far end of the peninsula from Acharacle (the baker in Acharacle does cracking pies by the way),
you're going to build up a love/hate relationship with that road!
bait.....
worm heaven at kilchoan at low tide, take a drive over to Portuairk as well, thats where we stay mostly, plenty plenty wormies there as well, but seeing as your in shiel - castle tioram, have a dig on the beach there, plenty of em there as well
easy to get to fishy spots...know loads that are a bit of a yomp but here goes...
pier at kilchoan is an obvious one, can get busy in july though, usually quiet in the evening, I drive me car right along the pier and par at the the end - I say right along, its only 100' long!
old service pier at the lighthouse, usually sheltered and a lot less well known, drive to the lighthouse and into the upper car park, if the tanks are on your left, the old pier is on the right small bit of grass then a zig zaggy path down to it, not too steep
Ardnamurchan Lighthouse - Scotland, United Kingdom
if you zoom into the bottom left of the first pic you can make out the path and there's a well made path/steps to the little piery bit as well, although doesn't look like it on the picture!, float fishing/spinning as the bottom can be a real tackle graveyard, but if you have a go can throw a few surprises up
Little Sanna -
portuairk - Google Maps
easy gentle walk across the machair/dunes for 10 mins, fab sheltered little beach, usually decent flattie action, bottom as clean as whistle
seeing as your at the other end check out castle tioram -
portuairk - Google Maps
all along loch sunart there's good rock edges though, and doggies, thornies and spurs are pretty easy to come by
I stuck a chart at
http://ebgb.net/misc/sunart.jpg & I stuck a chart at
http://ebgb.net/misc/n-ardnamurchan.jpg give you an idea of water depths and that
as you drive along towards the lighthouse there's one or 2 picnic areas right on the loch side,
drive right to the beach, reasonably deep channel at the back of the castle, to the west of it the River shiel runs in... you might think I've had the odd salmon and seatrout from the river mouth, but I couldn't possibly comment
same sort of drive from Acharacle to the lighthouse is the drive to Loch Aline... the old pier there is nuts, 25yards out puts you in 300foot of water!
no matter how far you cast it ends up by your feet almost. Some big pollack, spurs, thornies... even the odd skate gets landed from there
if you look at the sunart chart there's a red dot, west of Salen, there's a car park/picnic area right at the loch side, the little nose of rock sticking out drops into reasonably deep water, probably only 10 or 15mins drive from where you are, unless your at the other end of loch shiel, in which case it could take 2 hours!
Google Maps
always the option of a boat for half a day from andy jackson at laga bay, cost 35 quid for a half day last time I had one
if you were there same time in august we'll be up there then
will have a think, see if anythign else comes to mind
