Loch Bad a' Ghaill is a small remote and deep freshwater

loch ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots language, Scots and Irish language, Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is Cognate, cognate with the Manx language, Manx lough, Cornish language, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh language, Welsh w ...

that is located 10 miles north of Ullapool and immediately north west of

Loch Lurgainn Loch Lurgainn is a large remote and deep freshwater loch with a crescent shape with its concave side turned to the south. It is located in the Coigach area in Lochbroom, Wester Ross.Loch Lurgainn is located 8 miles south of Ullapool and two miles ...

. It is located in the Coigach peninsula in Lochbroom, Wester Ross. The scenic qualities of Coigach, along with neighbouring Assynt, have led to the area being designated as the ''Assynt-Coigach National Scenic Area'', one of 40 such areas in Scotland. The main settlement in the area, located directly to the north-west is Achiltibuie.

Geography

Loch Bad a' Ghaill is one of three lochs that extend on generally western direction and drains the loch in

Enard Bay Enard Bay is a large remote tidal coastal embayment, located 10.5 miles northwest of Ullapool, in northwestern Ross and Cromarty, Scottish Highlands in the west coast of Scotland. The mouth of the bay is about 4.5 miles across running from the h ...

. The first of these is

to the south-east that drains into Loch Bad na h-Achlaise, a small lochan that drains into Loch Bad A' Ghaill that in turn drains into the large

Loch Osgaig ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spellin ...

, which drains through an unnamed river into the small Garvie Bay. The three lochs are contained in a long valley that is bounded by a series of peaks consisting of large hills and mountains with associated ridges. At the western edge of the loch is the mountain

Cùl Beag Cùl Beag is a mountain in Coigach, in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland. It is 15 km north of Ullapool and lies to the south of Cùl Mòr, and to the east of the better-known but lower Stac Pollaidh Stac Pollaidh (IPA: �s̪t̪ʰa� ...

at 769 m. At the southern, flanking the loch is Sgòrr Tuath, a hill at 587.5m. Moving west along the loch at its mid-section, and to the north is the mountain of Stac Pollaidh. As you move towards the sea, there is a ridge to the south with the small peak of ''Meall Doire an t-Sidhein'' at 181m, that gets progressively shallower as you approach Enard Bay.

Fishing

Loch Bad a' Ghaill is very rarely fished due to its remote location and forbidding appearance. It does contain small trout around 8oz as well as

sea trout Sea trout is the common name usually applied to anadromous (sea-run) forms of brown trout (''Salmo trutta''), and is often referred to as ''Salmo trutta'' morpha ''trutta''. Other names for anadromous brown trout are sewin (Wales), peel or peal ...

and salmon. Black Zulu, Soldier Palmer and Peter Ross are the most common flies used on the loch.

References

{{Reflist Freshwater lochs of Scotland Lochs of Ross and Cromarty Garvie Basin Geography of Ross and Cromarty