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Title: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 02/09/2015 at 17:54

Gents,
i know well that conditions constantly change and fly fishing is nothing but variables  but i'll be in the area around September 25th and would really appreciate any tips and tricks: flies, expected hatches or other food types the fishes might be interested in, tactics, etc, anything. thanks !  :z16
cheers,
marc

ps, i already know that i'll most probably freeze my buns off...  :z4

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 02/09/2015 at 20:03

at the moment we are in a stream of NW winds dropping the temperature, unless there is a rise in temperature stick to wet fly all the traditional patterns work well, My pal lived at Stoer for many years and did all his fishing with 3 flies, silver march brown ,
mallard and claret , and soldier palmer, he caught some tremendous fish and he bought only these either 10's or 12's, on a stiff day on Loch Assynt he fished 8's, so go prepared Mark,  easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 03/09/2015 at 07:41

thanks, i have all those and a lot more standard loch flies already packed.  :z16
these are all pretty much on or near the surface flies but out of curiosity, does anyone fish these with intermediate or faster sinking lines to explore depth levels ?

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Hamish Young on 03/09/2015 at 08:07

Quote from: Marc Fauvet on 03/09/2015 at 07:41

....but out of curiosity, does anyone fish these with intermediate or faster sinking lines to explore depth levels ?

Yup  :wink

As you'll be passing us on the way up the road to Assynt Marc, you'd best stop by for a bite to eat and a chat about such things :z17

H :cool:

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Allan Liddle on 03/09/2015 at 08:35

Quote from: Marc Fauvet on 03/09/2015 at 07:41

thanks, i have all those and a lot more standard loch flies already packed.  :z16
these are all pretty much on or near the surface flies but out of curiosity, does anyone fish these with intermediate or faster sinking lines to explore depth levels ?

Yup can be productive but I've always found working bob flies or dries to be much better.  This time of year many fish will obviously be gravitating towards the burns or shallows in readiness for the 'Big Party'  :z4
Flies with red in them can really draw fish (I put a scarlet red hackle on my soldier palmer's and  GB4 mixed in the tail for added attitude) also found Hogs in all depths to be very effective.

Short Lining bushy flies (especially Hogs) in rolling waves rules supreme this time of year and fish are understandably aggressive so takes are often both savage and memorable especially to a moving fly.

That said if you get settled weather you stand a chance at some of the finest dry fly fishing you can find with the usual small n black (emergers and hoppers) high on the menu.  Assynt burns can be great for a wee bit of exploration and I've always found the big east end Assynt waters of the Upper Kirkaig system (Borralan, Urigill, Cama, Veyatie and Fionn, and satellite waters) to be amongst the best of the best with regard to quality fishing.  Boat better than bank, keeping within no more than two boat lengths off the bank on the big dramatic rocky venues (Veyatie and Cama top end) or open drifts on Borralan, Urigill and bottom (boat end) of Cama.  If you've a float tube then even better although it's a long hike back again if the wind picks up.

Hope this helps Marc, you'll have a blast  :z16

PS if i'm very lucky I might get a wee last min.com visit to the Crask in central Sutherland the week after (real end of season stuff) joining a group of mad troot nuts on our annual season end liver bash, depends on work though.  Fishing can and often is immense, fish stunning in spawning clothes, scenery spectacular, colours amazing, weather dramatic and generally a backdrop soundtrack of wind, rain and rutting stags, not hard to see why I love fishing the wilds at the end of the season  :z16 :z16 :z18   

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 03/09/2015 at 10:05

Quote from: Hamish on 03/09/2015 at 08:07

As you'll be passing us on the way up the road to Assynt Marc, you'd best stop by for a bite to eat and a chat about such things :z17

H :cool:

Al's the driver but i'll for sure try to convince him there's something very urgent to do at your house !  :z4 :z4 :z4

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 03/09/2015 at 10:09

Allan, that's awesome info. really appreciate it and hope you too have a blast !  :z16 :z16 :z16

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Peter McCallum on 03/09/2015 at 19:51

All I can offer is to have plenty of Bob Wyatts Deer Hair Sedges in your box

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 04/09/2015 at 08:47

thanks Peter  :z16  size range please ?

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 04/09/2015 at 11:51

If You get on Veyatie , don't Ignore Loch Mhadail, it's really worth a punt, we took the boat over the sandbar and had a brilliant fishing,, also above that is a loch Known as the whale well worth  a fish , also remember it's daddy long legs time, hope you have a brilliant time  easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 04/09/2015 at 20:21

the lunch time weather forecast was for sleet and snow on the high ground, Ouch! easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/09/2015 at 11:19

OUCH indeed !  :z4 :z4 :z4
thanks for the info  :z16
cheers,
marc

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Mike Barrio on 05/09/2015 at 11:52

........... and my local post office put out their Christmas Card stock yesterday :z4

I saw people buying Christmas cards there today :X1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Peter McCallum on 05/09/2015 at 12:29

Quote from: Marc Fauvet on 04/09/2015 at 08:47

thanks Peter  :z16  size range please ?

Size 10 that's it  :z12

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/09/2015 at 12:35

 :z16 :z18 :z3

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 05/09/2015 at 20:23

wind chill must have been down to  5C, it was 8C when I went to a loch today,  I lasted an  hour before hot coffee called, so I went to get some Chanterelle in the local woods, easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 06/09/2015 at 09:13

if you're trying to keep me away it won't work !!!  :z4 :z7 :z4

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 06/09/2015 at 12:07

Not at all Marc, just giving you a heads up, we have had little or no summer in the NW this year, as far as fishing goes it's been quite disappointing, easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 06/09/2015 at 16:15

just jesting mate. i used to live in Sweden, i can take a little cold  :wink

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 07/09/2015 at 14:43

Keep taking the paracetamol  :cool: easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Andy Finlay on 28/09/2015 at 16:50

Hey Marc, nice meeting you up in Assynt. Hope you had a good last couple of days fishing and the midges left you alone  :z16

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 01/10/2015 at 10:39

thanks Andy and likewise !  :z16
fishing wasn't bad, not good but that's fishing. midges have been, are and will always be a pain in the.... but hey, that's fishing too !  :z4
can't wait to get back. it's such a friggin' beautiful beautiful place...

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 01/10/2015 at 15:58

Looks like we  got a bit of an Indian summer to end with, was out the other day we all had fish but with the Autumnal gales it was tough going, try and get up earlier in the year Mark, I used to fish there in july some good fishing then , cheers easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 01/10/2015 at 19:33

i'm planning for mid-July to mid-June next year  :wink

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Allan Liddle on 02/10/2015 at 08:05

Mayfly time  :z16

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 02/10/2015 at 10:35

exactly !  :wink

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Andy Finlay on 03/10/2015 at 07:46

Quote from: Dryflee on 02/10/2015 at 08:05

Mayfly time  :z16

Midge time  :cry  :cry

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 03/10/2015 at 09:47

 :z4 :z7 :z4

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/10/2015 at 09:05

i'm sure this view is familiar to more than a few of you but i doubt anyone can even get enough of seeing it.

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-051015090501.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3103)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/10/2015 at 16:18

this too.

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-051015161751.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3104)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/10/2015 at 16:21

or this.

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-051015162135.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3105)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 05/10/2015 at 19:23

So you drove past Loch Maree? your other pic looks like Loch Droma,  :z12 easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 05/10/2015 at 19:42

yup, Maree on the trip back down. the first b&w is Assynt, just 5 min. down the road from the hotel. such a lovely place...

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 06/10/2015 at 12:45

Loch Cul Fraoich

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-061015124508.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3107)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Derek Roxborough on 06/10/2015 at 19:58

had some nice fish from Cul fraoich ,a few years back, I used to gillie on Loch Maree, you must have passed my house on the way through, easgach 1

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Mike Barrio on 14/10/2015 at 23:39

Marc's visit to Scotland ........ the video :)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 15/10/2015 at 09:47

:z4 :z4 :z4

i'm a little speechless at the moment, Mike...  :roll in the meantime here's another lovely place, an inlet close to Loch Garvie on the Minch.

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-151015094644.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3136)

Title: Re: Assynt at the end of September
Post by: Marc Fauvet on 15/10/2015 at 10:08

and one of the little cuties that came out to play.

(http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/gallery/1362-151015100754.jpeg) (http://www.fishingthefly.co.uk/forum/index.php?action=gallery;sa=view&id=3137)