Where to Fish for Coarse Fish at Lochs
Coarse Fishing Index Page
Aberdeenshire | Angus | Argyll | Ayrshire | Borders | Dumfries and Galloway | East Lothian | Fife | Glasgow | Lanark | Loch Lomond | Midlothian | Perthshire | Renfrewshire
Aberdeenshire
Aboyne Loch, roach, bream, ide, carp, pike, perch, eels. Permits from the Caravan Park Office, call 013398 86244.
Loch Soy, a former millpond in Portsoy near Banff stocked with carp, roach, bream and rudd. Call 01261 818404.
Pitfour Lake, coarse fishery stocked with common, mirror, ghost carp, tench, roach, rudd, skimmers, perch and gudgeon. Permits £6 per day, call 01779 474406, email pitfourfishery@hotmail.co.uk
Angus
Lairds Loch and Clatto Park. Perch, roach, bream. Members only, permits £25 per season adults, £20 unwaged or students, £10 juniors. Apply to Mr Potts, 11, Ullapool Cresent, Dundee, DD2 4TT.
Argyll
Loch Awe, pike to 35lbs (best marks around Kilchum Castle, Ford and Dalavich, perch 1lb plus, roach. Contact Loch Awe Boats on 01886 833256.
Loch Ascog holds a good stock of roach, for more details go to http://isleofbuteanglingassociation.webs.com/
Greenan Loch, Rothesay, Isle of Bute. Carp, tench, bream and roach, call 01700 503670.
Ayrshire
Bookers Pit, Irvine. Roach, rudd, perch, pike.
Kilbirnie Loch, roach to 2lb. Permit price the same as a trout fishing permit.
Loch Fergus, roach, pike, perch. No permit required.
Martinham Loch, pike, no permit required.
Borders
Loch of Lowes, run by St Marys Loch AC, boat (no outboards for hire byo up to 5HP) and bank fishing. Permits from the H Brown the Keeper, call 01361 883466 or 01750 42243.
Lochside Fishery on the road to Yetholm from Kelso on the B6352 offers pike and perch fishing from 2 boats, one holds 5 people the other 3. Call Edward Hurst on 07831 251146.
St Marys Loch, pike and perch, run by St Marys Loch AC, boat (no outboards for hire byo up to 5HP) and bank fishing. Permits from the H Brown the Keeper, call 01361 883466 or 01750 42243, cost £16 for the season £5 for the day, reductions for under 16's and OAPs.
Dumfries and Galloway
Auchenreoch Loch near Dumfries on the side of the A75 holds bream, perch and pike, permits are £5 from the Loch View Motel.
Barbarroch Loch, Newton Stewart. Rudd, bream, perch, roach, call 016071 402011.
Barend Loch near Dalbeattie holds carp with fish to 14lbs taken recently. Call 01387 450281.
Black Water of Dee, Castle Douglas. Pike perch, roach. Castle Loch, Lochmaben, mixed coarse fishing. Permits from Lochmaben Post office, £6.00 per day, call 01644 450281.
Carlingwark Loch, Castle Douglas. Pike, perch. No permit required.
Cowans Loch, Dumfries. Roach, rudd, carp, tench, call 01387 760284
Craigshaw Fisheries consists of 5 lochs which have undergone improvement work including; Craigshaws Loch very good tench to 7lb 2ozs, carp, crucians, roach, rudd, bream and eels. A mirror of 26lbs 9ozs was taken a few years . 28 pegs with good access for disabled; Gledarroch Loch, tench, carp, crucians, roach, rudd, pike, perch, in gin clear water; Cluscarden Farm Pond, a small fishery with 7 pegs holding roach averaging .75lbs, tench to 3lbs and rudd, carp crucians and a few bream; Barndarroch Loch is undergoing a recovery, perch, rudd, roach, bream and hydrids; Whitefield Loch a 60 acre loch with pike and perch which is gradually being stocked with other species. Permits from Palakone Guest House, call 01671 402323.
Dabton Loch is a small loch in Drumlanrig Estate which is stocked with tench, permits are £7 per rod day, call 01848 600415.
Drumlockart Loch, at the Drumlockart Caravan Park offers free fishing for carp, roach and perch to residents, they have boats for hire too. Call 01776 870232.
Forest Lochs, Creebridge. perch, pike, rudd, roach, tench, call 01671 402420.
Eglington Park, bream, roach, rudd, perch. Permits from the visitors centre, call 10294 551776.
Kelhead Quarry, Annan, Roach, rudd, perch, pike, bream, tench, carp call 01461 700344.
Lochs Heron and Ronald (27 and over 100 acres respectively) near Kirkcowan on the 3 Lochs Estate, hold very good stocks of pike, perch, bream, rudd, roach and carp. The pike fishing is of a high quality with fish averaging 10 to 15lbs, the best to date being a fish of 39lbs. Permits cost £5 per day £25 per week. Call 01678 830304.
Loch Ken, top notch coarse fish venue roach, perch, bream and pike, the Glenlaggan stretch of bank is very much favoured with 40 pegs available for competitions. Permits from local pubs and shops, £4 per day. Boats (with outboard) can be hired from Loch Ken Marina at £35 to £42 per day, call 01556 670402.
Loch Rutton, near Dumfries. Bream, roach. No permit required.
Loch Struan 5 miles from New Galloway is a pretty loch with extensive weed beds and lily pads holding Perch, Pike and Brown trout. Permits from Forest Enterprise £3 to £5 call 01671 402420.
Monreith Loch pike, to 20lbs+, roach and rudd. Disabled access along banks and on platforms. Permits call 01988 700248 or contact Palakona Guest house who run Craigshaw Fisheries.
Morton Loch like Dabton is on Drumlanrig Estate and is stocked with tench, permits are £7 per day per rod, call 01848 600415.
Newton Loch. Gatehouse of Fleet, Galloway. 20lb plus carp, permits £4 per day, call 01557 840234.
Spectacle Lochs in the Penninghame Forest are run by the Forestry Commission. The lochs are; Spectacle Loch, two lochs infact holding lots of small pike, good perch some roach, rudd, and tench: Garwachie Loch, with tench, roach, rudd, pike, perch: Eldrig Loch which has some good pike up to the high teens. Permits from Glenrazie Lodge, call 01671 402404.
Torwood House Hotel near Glenluce have two ponds containing roach, rudd, bream carp and tench (best tench 6lb 14ozs), the also have pike fishing on Loch Demalger. Permits from the hotel reception, call 01581 300468.
Woodhall Loch an 80 acre loch with many bays holding good stocks of pike, perch and roach. Permits from Mossdale PO, £3per day, call 01644450281.
East Lothian
Danskine Loch, Gifford. Carp, roach, perch. No access between October and March because of shooting. Call 0131 477 1804.
Fife
Loch Fitty, Lodge Bay stocked with roach, rudd, common carp, mirror carp and perch, call 01383 620666.
Kinghorn Loch, pike, some large perch, and stories of specimen roach, carp and rumours of bream being present in this fine little clear water loch on the B923 just outside Kinghorn, permits from the Ecology Centre by the loch, £4 adults £2 juniors.
Lochgelly Loch, pike, perch, roach, no permits required.
Glasgow
Hogganfield Park, Glasgow. Serious carp, roach, pike, perch, bream. Free but permit required, call 0141 287 5167.
Kilmardinny Loch, Bearsden. Perch and roach.
Loch Libo, Uplawmoor, Barrhead. 20lb plus carp. Permits £30 for the year, call 0141 776 7922.
Lanark
Broadwood Loch, Cumbernauld. David Hamilton recently took a 20lb 10oz mirror carp out of here. Also bream and roach. No permit required.
Forester Burn Reservoir, Shotts, Lanarkshire. Roach, pike, perch, eels. No permit required.
Lanark Loch, Hyndford Road, Lanark some very large carp plus bream, roach, rudd and perch. Permits from the Recreation Officer, call 01555 894867.
Strathclyde Park, Motherwell. Roach, bream, perch, gudgeon, carp, tench. Permits from the rangers office include a nearby stretch of the River Clyde, call 01698 402060.
Loch Lomond
Loch Lomond has an interesting biology because it have two distinct environments. The northern half of the loch is a typical glacial formed, deep narrow highland loch while the southern end is shallow and more akin to a typical lowland loch. The southern environment suites coarse fish. There are roach, dace, rudd, pike and perch. There are also powan which you should return immediately if you catch them as they are very much an endangered species.
Loch Lomond is probably one of the best pike fishing venues anywhere and the fishing is free. The loch is big, really big and you should search around for information about where to fish rather than waste your time plodding about. Someone once told me there were good pike near Balmaha, then I had a look and realised that I might as well have been told that there are lots of haddock in the North Sea!
Balmaha is recommended as well as the area around Luss. Endrick Mouth where the monster pike skull was found is also a hot spot. There is excellent fishing in late spring when the coarse fish run up the Endrick to spawn.
Live bait is not allowed as in the past people have used ruffe which have have escaped or been dumped in he loch at the end of a fishing session and multiplied becoming a serious problem because they eat the eggs of native species of fish.
Midlothian
Duddingston Loch in the Holyrood Park in the heart of Edinburgh. There are serious carp in Duddingston Loch (Scottish record standard) as well as perch and roach. Free to fish but permission must be obtained from the park ranger office, this is a bird sanctuary.
Perthshire
Loch Earn. There is so much on offer here, for information about permits contact Loch Earn Fishings on 01764 8681257, permits from the St Fillans Post Office in Lochearnhead.
Dunmore Loch, Pitlochry. Tench, carp, perch, roach, pike, eels, crucian carp. Permits £5 per day from Mitchells of Pitlochry.
Renfrewshire
Castle Semple Loch, Kilwinnoch. Part of the Clyde Muirsheil Regional Park and run by the St Winnoch Anglng Club, there is fishing in Castle Semple and Barr Loch. 20lb + pike, roach, perch, eels. Permits, season £14, day £3.50 from Country Sports, Paisley. Call 0141 889 5535.
