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Renfrewshire

Harelaw Trout Fishery is a good sized fishery of just over 100 acres located near Neilston with bank and boat fishing. A shallow reservoir averaging 8 to 9 feet deep it has extensive areas of bank, 3 islands and 4 dams walls all offering a variety of terrains to fish in. It also offers a good range of fish including rainbows, wild browns, blues, tigers and brook trout. Very good fly life which starts early in the season makes Harewood a great dry fly and nymph fishery with buzzers, sedges, olives and emergers doing well. The loch also has some top notch perch and some roach so by August fry imitations do well as they fish hammer the shoals. For permits call 01505 850202. 

Loch Gryfe about three miles south of Greenock is a reservoir of about 115 acres, 1.33 miles long and a third of a mile wide deepest at the dam wall at about 34 feet with an average depth of 17 feet. Fishing is bank only for wild brown trout averaging about half a pound with a few to 2lbs. Permits from Brian Peterson in the Fishing Shop in Greenock, call 01475 888085.

Loch Thom is very mature reservoir as it dates to 1827. It lies about 3 miles south of Greenock adjacent to Loch Gryfe. Its about 1.5 miles long and up to half a mile wide, 331 acres, with the deepest water at the north end being about 42 feet deep, the average depth is 19 feet. Fishing is bank only for wild brown trout in the half pound class. Permits from Brian Peterson in the Fishing Shop in Greenock, call 01475 888085.