Available: Hebridean fishing holiday

[caorach]

Dollag's Cottage, a newly refurbished croft house sleeping 6 in one double and two twin rooms, is available for holiday lets and is ideally located for those looking for a great fishing holiday.

http://www.7south.co.uk/index.html

The cottage is situated on the West Side of the Isle of Lewis and is literally surrounded by places to fish with 3 brown trout lochs within walking distance of the cottage, one of them even produces the occasional salmon and another produces some of the best brown trout fishing on the island.

The visiting angler can chose to fish for brown trout, sea trout or salmon and can pick from lochs and rivers close to the road or head for areas so remote that a long walk is required and the fish may not have seen an angler in many years. There are so many options that the angler will have no difficulty getting fishing but might find it difficult to chose where to fish next!!

Your host at Dollag's Cottage can point the visiting angler in the right direction providing information on good places to fish and also, where required, on how to get permits or permission. One visiting angler who stayed in Dollag's Cottage for a week last season fished for brown trout, salmon and sea trout and had a very successful week and all of her fishing was free. It is also possible to fish a lot of water on a daily or weekly permit system and access to some very exclusive water indeed is also often possible and may also be surprisingly affordable.

Here are a few photos to give you some idea of the fishing available:

Afloat on the famous Loch Voshimid at Amhuinnsuidhe:



A remote trout loch requiring a long walk but with a reputation of holding some big fish:



Making tea behind a rock while fishing for salmon:



A small salmon from a river just a short distance from the cottage:



A view across the landscape - there are sea trout and salmon in the two lochs in this photo:



A Dollag's Cottage guest fishing on a remote hill loch - this angler was a little nervous about walking the moor alone but it was possible to arrange a day out with some company as it would be a shame to visit Lewis and not experience some wild fishing:



This disused shieling makes the ideal spot to brew up some tea when trout fishing:

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

£350 a week low season if ive read it right for a place that sleeps upto 6... what a bargain.. stunning place.

Are you offering any local stalking packages alongside this as am interested.

Cheers Terry

 

[caorach]

There is a PM on its way Terry, hopefully that will answer all your questions.

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

There is a PM on its way Terry, hopefully that will answer all your questions.

Thankyou, Recieved with thanks.. Terry

 

[Neumo]

Wow what a place and such views. It has got me thinking about a road trip if I can muster any interest...

 

[caorach]

It has got me thinking about a road trip

You know it makes sense

 

[CWMMAN3738]

Forward them to me too please terry sounds like an excuse to get away again.

Thankyou, Recieved with thanks.. Terry

 

[caorach]

You have a PM CWMMAN3738

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

Forward them to me too please terry sounds like an excuse to get away again.

Sorry i didnt get chance to send them.

Hope your sorted Caorach couldnt have been more helpful.

 

[caorach]

Seeing as the weather is awful today I thought a few more photos might cheer some of us up:

Planning the fishing for the afternoon with the maps spread out on the floor in the cottage:



With Lewis fishing there are just so many lochs to chose from that it is much more difficult to decide which loch to fish than to get access to fishing:



The walk to the loch often results in the angler bumping into some of the other moorland residents:



Some lochs have a great view:



And, of course, it is important to stop for lunch lest hunger should strike you down:



Despite watching the deer, and deciding on a loch, and making tea, and eating lunch, and walking to the loch, and taking in the view some anglers also find that they manage the time to fit in a little actual fishing:



Along with the fishing some guests have also headed for the hills for some stalking:



And when the water is right your host at Dollag's Cottage has been known to head for the salmon river:

 

[pheasant sniper 1]

Seeing as the weather is awful today I thought a few more photos might cheer some of us up:

Planning the fishing for the afternoon with the maps spread out on the floor in the cottage:



With Lewis fishing there are just so many lochs to chose from that it is much more difficult to decide which loch to fish than to get access to fishing:



The walk to the loch often results in the angler bumping into some of the other moorland residents:



Some lochs have a great view:



And, of course, it is important to stop for lunch lest hunger should strike you down:



Despite watching the deer, and deciding on a loch, and making tea, and eating lunch, and walking to the loch, and taking in the view some anglers also find that they manage the time to fit in a little actual fishing:



Along with the fishing some guests have also headed for the hills for some stalking:



And when the water is right your host at Dollag's Cottage has been known to head for the salmon river:

If you fancy a swap...

Me and the kids have a line out the windows at mo..
Bloody weather

 

[caorach]

If you fancy a swap...

Me and the kids have a line out the windows at mo..
Bloody weather

Hope you are OK Terry. The wet weather doesn't seem to be UK wide in that the west coast of Scotland has only had about half their normal rain. I guess the rest is falling on your house

Stornoway had a very high tide yesterday morning and there were people in the centre of town on surf boards so if you don't catch anything you can always take up surfing.

Maybe I will post more sunny photos later on to cheer everyone up.

 

[caorach]

Some sunny, or rain related, photos to help cheer everyone up in the awful weather. These were mostly taken on one day out on the moor except for one which was taken a few days earlier.

A panorama of Loch nan Geadh and the surrounding area. Look at all those lovely lochs!



The burn flowing out of the island loch. As you can see there were a few big rain showers going about and it made for a dramatic day out:



A double rainbow that appeared out of one of the rain showers on the island loch. The little "houses" you can see are shielings which are sometimes occupied in the summer and are, I suspect, mostly used as a sort of remote garden shed by the male population of the island:



Just about the only hill on the northern part of the Lewis moor:



And a panorama of the same hill with Loch Fada Caol just on the left of the picture:

 

[BSAvale]

Simply stunning, if my dogs were allowed I would definitely be visiting.

 

[Lee Enfield]

Is that the Barvas moor?

 

[sauer]

Your photos are amazing
Love the sky in half these shots .... Are you editing at all ?...if so what are you using ?
Fancy dabbling with some of mine

Beautiful place
Paul

 

[caorach]

Is that the Barvas moor?

I guess this depends on how you define the extent of the Barvas Moor. I'd say it isn't but others might argue that the bottom 4 were taken on the north Barvas Moor while I guess it is also reasonable to say that they were taken on the Gress Moor. The top one is in another area altogether but I guess it is only a mile or two from the end of the Barvas Hills so there might be some who would still claim it as Barvas moor.

 

[caorach]

Your photos are amazing
Love the sky in half these shots .... Are you editing at all ?...if so what are you using ?
Fancy dabbling with some of mine

Beautiful place
Paul

I can't claim any skill at this, but over a while now I've been messing around with High Dynamic Range (HDR) techniques. I take 3 images every time with one correctly exposed and then one +2 and one -2 stops. You can get software that then combines the images to increase the dynamic range of the images - so the clouds are correctly exposed as are the shadows. Photomatix is considered the best software for the job but there are a range available including some free ones, there is also a cut down version of Photomatix. I've found that the process works best on RAW images, if your camera will shoot them, but it is also very effective on JPEG as well so even if you can't shoot RAW it is worth trying.

The images out of the HDR software often need a bit of work to get them looking decent, contrast can need adjustment for example, and really that is a matter of taste and depends on individual images.

Some of the images that come out of the software can be a little on the crazy side and they are not to the taste of all but if nothing else it is good fun creating them and trying to reflect the wonderful light and colours out on the moor.

Needless to say when walking a lot on the moor I don't carry a big fancy camera but have a pocket sized Canon G9 as the best camera for any photo is the one you have with you at the time. Doing HDR, and the panoramas, without a tripod can be a bit hit or miss but I usually manage to get something for my attempts.

 

[Bez]

You have pm pal

 

[caorach]

I know this is mostly a fishing thread but thought to post some photos taken while stalking on Lewis. They show lots of lochs so I guess they could be either stalking or fishing related.