The A to Z of Where to Fish For Wild Brown Trout in the Rivers of Scotland
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Perthshire
Braan
Wild trout fishing on this little river flowing from Loch Freuchie, permits from the Amulree Hotel, call 01350 725218.
Earn
Crieff Angling Club
. Trout £5, Grayling £5, Day Tickets, Boyds Newsagents, Crieff, 0176465387, Perthshire or Tourist Board Crieff 01764 65278.
Kinkell Fishing, over 2 miles of double bank fishing, 30 named pools fly or spinning for salmon, sea trout, brown trout and grayling. Prices: February to July £20, August £30, September and October £50 per day; sea trout night fishing £10 brown trout and grayling £6 per day. Call 01738 730271.
Gaur
This river which flows from Loch Laidon on Rannoch Moor is the oddest thing. Dammed a few miles down from Rannoch station to form Loch Eigheacht, which is part of the massive Tay Hydro electric system, the river can rise and fall from the dam down stream at the whim of the generating station. The river rises several feet in short shift creating an artificial spate. Now when the river is running normally you can catch a basket load of small trout 3 or 4 to the pound, free rising and eager. Then the river rises and things change. A lasting memory was watching helplessly as a three pound fish, played out, lay out of reach in the swelling flood and my net was in the car! I lost the fish and still chew my gums fretting. Big fish from Loch Rannoch run the Gaur late in the season and many an angler has been shocked to the bottom of his welly boots by them. Permits from the Rannoch Station Hotel, call 01882 633238.
Lyon
Keepers Cottage, Cashlie, Glen Lyon, Aberfeldy, 01877 866237, salmon, brown trout cost £3; W Drysdale, Keepers Cottage, Innerwick, Glen Lyon, call 01877 866218, salmon and trout, cost £12 to end of August, £15 Sept and Oct; Glen Lyon PO, Bridge of Balgie, Glen Lyon call 01877 866218, trout, cost £5, £1.50 refunded with catch return.
Isla
Blairgowrie, there a several salmon, trout and grayling fishing opportunities on the Isla detailed out on an excellent web site, www.anglingintayside.co.uk/fishingcentres.asp click on the Blairgowrie and Coupar Angus button.
Tay
There a several salmon, trout and grayling fishing opportunities on the Tay detailed out on an excellent web site, www.anglingintayside.co.uk/fishingcentres.asp click on the Blairgowrie and Coupar Angus.
Aberfeldy Angling Club, permits Wade Newsagents Aberfeldy, 01887 820397 price £5 per day.
Dunkeld and Birnam Angling Association have fishing
rights on several beats on the Tay and the river Braan for wild brown trout and grayling. Excellent fly water with the potential to deliver you a specimen trout at any time.
Fly hatches can be prolific from March Browns in the late spring to Yellow sallies, Olives and sedges in the summer. watch out for the Stonefly hatch - if nothing else these monster flies can give you a hell of a scare when they creep down your neck! They are harmless off course, but big. Dry fly, nymph, down stream or up stream wet fly, the fly anglers pleasure dome.
Just one thing, the river is big, deep fast, be careful and be stoical - the really big fish are usually well out of casting distance, makes ya weep.
Perth & District Angling Association offer permits for trout fishing on several stretches of the river from Logierait just above the junction of the Tay and Tummel down to Scone, permits from Mallochs in Perth, Ballinluig Inn, Kettles in Dunkeld.
Tummel
Lower Tummel
Pitlochry, permits for trout and grayling fishing from Pitlochry down to Ballinluig from the Pitlochry Tourist Office, 22, Athol Pl, Pitlochry, call 01796472215 also Ballinluig Filling Station and Ballinluig PO.
Upper Tummel
Clunie Dam down to Faskally, trout and grayling. permits from the Pitlochry Tourist Office.
