Loch Watten Fishing Guide: Caithness Wild Brown Trout
Traditional loch style at its best, with wild browns averaging just under a pound and enough two and three pounders to keep you honest. Fly only, and better from a boat.
Traditional loch style at its best, with wild browns averaging just under a pound and enough two and three pounders to keep you honest. Fly only, and better from a boat.
Over a thousand acres of wild brown trout water between Denny and Fintry, and since 2021 you cannot buy a day ticket. Here is what that means if you were planning to fish it.
Around 70 acres near Dunkeld, holding rainbow, blue and brown trout, fished from boat and bank. Access runs through the angling association rather than over the counter.
Boat only, fly only, wild brown trout. Loch Leven is the water that gave loch-style fishing its name, and it still asks proper questions of an angler.
Boat-only, stocked weekly, and twenty minutes from Stirling. Lake of Menteith is where I send anglers who want their day out to involve catching fish.
The belt of water between Stirling and Dunkeld holds some of the most consistent stillwater trout fishing in Britain. Here is how the main venues differ and which one suits which angler.
River trout seasons are closing by October, but stillwater trout fishing can be some of the best of the year if you know where to go.
Where bait fishing for trout is permitted, here’s my honest ranking of what actually produces, based on years of fishing the day-ticket waters that allow it.
Method feeder tactics are built for carp and bream, not trout – so why does it produce so reliably on the right stocked stillwater?
It doesn’t fit the fly-fishing culture around trout, but float fishing for stocked trout is a genuinely accessible, underrated approach.