Eela Water

The term Eela is used in Shetland to describe a fishing place, particularly one near to the shore of a body of water. It also used to describe a type of rod fishing, derived from dialectal Norwegian, Ila, which described a type of stone anchor. The Eela rod fishing involved doing so from calm waters, or rowing into the tide and holding the boat steady (usually trying to catch coalfish). However, Tudor states that the name was originally Ola's Water, a personal name. The bedrock that the loch sits on is mixed, but mostly made up of schists and pink granite, and the surrounding earth made up of peat. The inflows of water have been determined to be of low alkalinity. The granite lies mostly to…