Post by ballingall512 on Jul 18, 2010 15:35:12 GMT
Here are a few pictures of The river shiel and surrounding area from my wee trip up north, before my accident.
We were staying with family in a gorgeous family croft on the banks of kinlochmoidart at Acharachle.
Only a few hundred yards from the front door of the croft, the stunning river shiel tumbles into kinlochmoidart, through the shielfoot rapids, which are quite something at low tide, yet when high tide comes they almost back up completely into the pool above the falls known as the pot, giving the fish an easier passage up.
The rain arrived the day before we did, and with it brought in the first fish of the seasonfor the river system.
Here is the view from the front of the croft at low tide, Shielfoot is to the far left of the shot.
At high water.
here are a few near sunset looking down shielfoot to kinlochmoidart
The very fast flowing 'v' at the top of shielfoot, proved a very productive spot with 5 or 6 salmon being hooked here over the course of the week, including a fish of 18 lbs, luckily for the angler the fish stayed in the pool, and didn't return down the falls as the previous fish of the morning had done
The tail of 'The Pot' looking down to shielfoot
Looking upstream to the head of the pot. lovely fly water from start to finnish.
Here are some pictures of some of the lovely pools and runs further upstream, of which, some are pretty large too.
not unlike the spey in many ways.
This is the run into the gorgeous and very large house pool.
The tight gully at the neck opens into a huge pool with 3 or 4 large casting platforms for the anglers, the largest and newest of which on the fasr bank, was built only recently and uses 24ft long poles to support the platforms (which have not been cut) so it gives you an idea of the depth and scale of the pool.
This is a view over LochShiel at the top of the system, The local association have fishing on a stretch of the loch, and the first 3 pools on the river, the rest is all let to syndicate rods.
I took this video of a syndicate member playing a grilse at the top of shielfoot, in the tail of the pot, I have cut it slightly short due to the way the fish was landed.
it was played out, then the leader was wrapped round the anglers arm, the fish pulled onto the bank, then kicked firther up the same bank, The hook was removed and the fish was then lifted by the wrist of it's tail and thrown back into the water.
I removed that section for obvious reasons.
It would seem the syndicate rules involve returning all grilse and retaining any larger fish, which included fish of 13/ 15 17 and 18 lbs for the week.
Any way I'm not going to preach about their methods, a stunning wee river and a joy to walk the banks for a few days watching some lovely fish being landed. around a dozen for the week for the 7 rods I think.
We were staying with family in a gorgeous family croft on the banks of kinlochmoidart at Acharachle.
Only a few hundred yards from the front door of the croft, the stunning river shiel tumbles into kinlochmoidart, through the shielfoot rapids, which are quite something at low tide, yet when high tide comes they almost back up completely into the pool above the falls known as the pot, giving the fish an easier passage up.
The rain arrived the day before we did, and with it brought in the first fish of the seasonfor the river system.
Here is the view from the front of the croft at low tide, Shielfoot is to the far left of the shot.
At high water.
here are a few near sunset looking down shielfoot to kinlochmoidart
The very fast flowing 'v' at the top of shielfoot, proved a very productive spot with 5 or 6 salmon being hooked here over the course of the week, including a fish of 18 lbs, luckily for the angler the fish stayed in the pool, and didn't return down the falls as the previous fish of the morning had done
The tail of 'The Pot' looking down to shielfoot
Looking upstream to the head of the pot. lovely fly water from start to finnish.
Here are some pictures of some of the lovely pools and runs further upstream, of which, some are pretty large too.
not unlike the spey in many ways.
This is the run into the gorgeous and very large house pool.
The tight gully at the neck opens into a huge pool with 3 or 4 large casting platforms for the anglers, the largest and newest of which on the fasr bank, was built only recently and uses 24ft long poles to support the platforms (which have not been cut) so it gives you an idea of the depth and scale of the pool.
This is a view over LochShiel at the top of the system, The local association have fishing on a stretch of the loch, and the first 3 pools on the river, the rest is all let to syndicate rods.
I took this video of a syndicate member playing a grilse at the top of shielfoot, in the tail of the pot, I have cut it slightly short due to the way the fish was landed.
it was played out, then the leader was wrapped round the anglers arm, the fish pulled onto the bank, then kicked firther up the same bank, The hook was removed and the fish was then lifted by the wrist of it's tail and thrown back into the water.
I removed that section for obvious reasons.
It would seem the syndicate rules involve returning all grilse and retaining any larger fish, which included fish of 13/ 15 17 and 18 lbs for the week.
Any way I'm not going to preach about their methods, a stunning wee river and a joy to walk the banks for a few days watching some lovely fish being landed. around a dozen for the week for the 7 rods I think.