Loch Ailsh
This is one of the lochs featured in a new book - Trout Fishing in Assynt: A Guide to 30 lochs - which gives you the best, local expert advice there is about fishing this loch. The booklet, which helps fund local angling, is available from Achins Bookshop, Inverkirkaig.
Boat only (at NC316103).
Off the A837 near Benmore Lodge, Ailsh is best known for its salmon and sea trout that enter from the Oykel. Good quality brown trout are here though of good average size with much better taken not infrequently.
Details
OS Grid: NC315110Decimal: 58.055961, -4.857234
Degrees: 58° 3' 21.4596" N, 4° 51' 26.0424" W
Fishing details: Assynt Angling Group, Eastern Zone
Permit details: £5/day, £25/week from usual outlets
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Loch Ailsh
great days on Loch Ailsh in 2008and 2009 but the boat leaves a lot to be desired.sits like a bath tub hard to get a good drift as boat has a flat bottom
Boat and engine prices.
To clarify this point,the boat hire prices throughout the Assynt Angling Group Area are, and have always been since the formation of the Group, £10.00. It does not include the outboard motor hire which is charged at a seperate rate, and reviewed annually.
Where this angler saw boat hire at £5.00 for Loch Ailsh, beats me, but it certainly was not in any documentation produced by the Group!!
Cathel MacLeod,
Treasurer of Assynt Angling Club.
1st June, 2010.
Ailsh boat
The 2008 price for a boat on Ailsh wasn't the £5 mentioned in the piece on the loch but was at least double that figure with an additional cost for the engine. I fished it in 2009 but since my boat partner had booked and paid for it, I didn't ask the cost!
boat and engine prices.
This guy must be from another planet! Complaining about paying £10 for a boat AND an engine! Unbelievable. That is fantastic value. He should look around at the prices on other lochs, typically at least three times that price!
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