Busy times.

Had a fairly productive September and it seems to be getting even busier next month. Fishing has been pretty good and the weather reasonable for the most part. A couple weeks back, I was asked by my manager at work if I could take some company visitors out for some fishing on our workboat. Of course I accepted and had 5 people on the RB boat midweek. The guys were keen fishermen though never fished Skye before or for pollock. I took them to a shallow mark near the cages and it was mayhem from the get go! We used mainly homemade softplastics in loud colours and they all caught well. There's no GPS anchor on the workboat so we were drifting. Sometimes, I think that in relatively shallow, extensive marks such as this one it may actually be better than spotlocking in the warm months.

We had a mad couple hours until the guys had enough and it was time to head back. Definitely wouldn't say no to more sessions like this! 

Unfortunately my HTO HOOLIGAN rod broke on a snag and I haven't managed to find a spare tip for it so I'm on the lookout for another cheapo rod now...

A good bend...

Solid group.

Good condition on them.

Among the better ones.

The week after that, I guided 4 lads on a shore session that didn't turn out too bad. We had to fish the 'wrong' part of the tide due to time constraints and the action wasn't as hot as I would've liked, but we got some good fish regardless. At times it felt like the fish were there but just not keen on feeding...

Rugged warrior.

On the edge!

Midges out..

Last week I had another outing with my mate Andrew. We fished from the tinnie and it was another great day. We started by hitting some coalies on the LRF gear as Andrew loves them! Later on we switched to the bigger lures and started getting among the better fish. It wasn't long till Andrew hooked a good one and after a hard fight I netted him a quality fish. Around the 8lb mark and a new pb for him. Soon enough it was time to go and another good session came to an end. There was a clear big lure = big fish pattern on the day.

Boat lrf is great fun.

Dark kelp pollock 

Love them cuckoos 

Solid fish for Andrew 

Big one!

New pb

We've already had a few rough days now and water temperature is slowly dipping, if it calms down a bit into the following weeks I reckon fishing will really fire up!

Tight lines! 

September's here.

 The summer has flown by and the golden time is upon us. I've been thankful that the weather has been lovely the past couple weeks and I reckon there'll be some great fishing if this continues. I've had a lovely boat session with my friend Zubair his dad and his son the other week. It was cool seeing three generations catching fish, with the wee man showing off by catching some of the best fish of the day!

We seemed to be finding fish in most places and in feeding mood. Though the bigger fish preferred otd and slow retrieves ( wee man caught them just holding the lure static).

3 generations!

Amaan tackling a good pollock.

Quality fish.

Grandpa caught some too..

Needed some help with the better fish...

Double trouble 

Showing the youth how its done.

A cracking coalie.

Quality fish.

Wounded warrior.

He's in again!

It was great fun guiding the guys and I'm sure little Amaan will follow his father in many more fishing trips. Can't think of anything better than fishing with your kids...

I've had a couple solo outings too with the tinnie but also the good ol' inflatable as the Tohatsu needed some running. Plenty of fish about, though almost impossible the get to the better fish through the 3lbers...    Soon enough things will change though.

Cracking weather. 

Loads at this size.

On the inflatable too.

I will be putting my inflatable boats for sale soon as they really don't get to see much action and the Yam380S is starting to get tired. I'm hoping to be able to finance a new 3.8m ish inflatable as its always handy to have for areas with tricky access and as a backup for guiding. The new Honwave T-38 looks to fit the bill...

Tight lines 

The tinnie cracks on...

Not had time at all to blog lately as it seems like everything is happening at the same time with work, fishing and family commitments. Nevertheless the fishing has been very good despite the rainy and windy June. After the early season glut, fish have become a little fussier with all the bait around and tend to patrol more instead of staging on one spot. They're also not as tightly shoaled and it has become a common thing to pick up a few fish before needing to move again to find more.  

Slim softplastics have been far better than metals in the past few sessions with brighter colours doing well. Although this could be down to my latest sessions taking place in the evening.  

I've had a good few people on the tinnie up to now and the feedback has been very positive. So much more space! I've kinda neglected my sibs and I think I need an outing on them in a more remote area than Staffin. There are reports of mackerel about and it would be good to head west for them.

I will be going for a month's holiday in Greece next month and I'm really looking forward to some good fishing there. Been a while since I had some hot weather fishing...

The other day I also opened my trout season account and this is probably the latest I've ever started fishing for them! Nevertheless, I'll hit some more wee lochans soon enough. 

Tight lines