Fishing / angling by Soval Lodge

Soval Lodge sits on the side of a hill on its own 500 acre farm one mile from the road – a lovely discreet location with uninterrupted, spectacular sweeping views of the sea loch and the Harris hills beyond.

Soval provides some excellent fly only salmon and sea trout fishing on the whole of the Laxay River. The Laxay is some three and a half miles long with 10 named pools and flows from Loch Trealaval down to Loch Valtos and from there into the sea. It is in Loch Valtos, which has 3 boats on it and the pools near to this Loch that most salmon are caught, thus access is easy. The flow of water is controlled by dams at the point of issue from both Lochs as well as by a further 4 strategically placed dams, enabling both the benefit of additional flood water to be used in drier periods and also to bring fresh fish up from the sea. The Laxay estuary provides some excellent fishing for sea trout whilst sea trout fishing after dinner on the Laxay river can also be rewarding.

Salmon and trout fishing is also available by boat on Loch Langavat at the top end of the famous Grimersta fishing. There are also over 100 lochs offering excellent opportunities for wild brown trout fishing with boats on the best 8. The boats at Trealaval and Langavat are fitted with an outboard motor providing the perfect opportunity to teach beginners or young children to fish. A number of the trout lochs are remote and therefore provide the fisherman with the opportunity to fish for wild trout that rarely see a fly.