Monday, Day 1 - Boats on Grogarry, Stilligarry and Altabrug. A windy start to the week meant Steve A and Steve W were unable to boat fish on Grogarry and were also unable to catch any fish from the bank. Graeme and Sandy fared slightly better with Graeme taking 2 fish, from boat and bank on Stilliagarry. Most sheltered loch of all turned out to be Altabrug where John took one trout and Joe the best catch of the week - 12 trout.
Tuesday, Day 2 - Boats on Grogarry, Altabrug and Mill. Another very windy day meant a mixture of bank and boat fishing and saw Graeme and Joe take one fish each on Grogarry. Graeme also lost a fish which, estimated at over 5lb, would have been the best fish ever taken by us during our visits to Uist. Sandy and Steve A, on Altabrug, could not match the catches from the day before and both blanked. As did Steve W and John on Mill who had to call it a day eartly due to conditions.
Wednesday, Day 3 - Another very windy day with boats on Stilligarry, Mid Ollay and Lower Bornish. John had one fish on Stilligarry while his boat partner Steve A blanked. Mid Ollay saw Steve W and Graeme mostly bank fishing with Steve taking 2 fish. Joe and Sandy were unable to get fishing on Lower Bornish and had to resort to bank fishing on East Ollay where Joe managed to catch 3 fish.
Thursday, Day 4 - Boats on East Ollay, Lower Bornish and Upper Bornish. Thankfully the very strong winds had dropped but now we were faced with bright sunshine. On East Ollay, Sandy had 5 fish whilst John blanked. Lower Bornish saw Steve A take 3 fish whilst Graeme blanked. And on Upper Bornish, Steve W and Joe had 3 fish each.
Friday, Day 5 - Boats on West Ollay, Mid Ollay and Upper Bornish. Yet again another day of bright sunshine saw Sandy and Steve W, on West Ollay, struggle, failing to touch a fish and stop early. On Mid Ollay, Steve A had 1 fish and Joe 2. Whilst on Upper Bornish John had 2 fish and Graeme once again blanked.

The final results surprisingly saw Graeme, who usually finishes top angler, finish bottom! Top angler for the week, and winner of the South Uist Cup for 2021 was Joe Campbell with 21 fish. Steve W was runner up with 5 fish. Graeme did however catch the biggest fish of the week, a 2lb 8oz trout on Grogarry. And also lost one potentially twice that size!. The total catch for the week was only 41 fish - probably our worst return since we started coming, but at least everyone had fish despite very challenging conditions!

A return visit for 2022 is arranged for 11-18 June, so hopefully this time we get some decent weather and the fishing catches return to normal.
Click here to see details of previous years catches.