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Loch Katrine Fisheries

Loch Katrine, The Trossachs

Stirlingshire

Tel: 01877 386 374

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Loch Katrine is open for fishing after a 10 year break, boat fishing only for wild brown trout and pike.

There can be no doubt that there will be some stunning catches from these unpolluted waters with some of the fish having the deepest natural salmon pink colour you could imagine. Not big my modern fishery standards, these Loch Katrine trout take like express trains and fight like tigers. They are wild, they are natural and quite a few will grow large. Loch Katrine is going to give some anglers the surprise of their life. Wild Brown Trout to 4lb have been reported informally, pike up 30lbs too, some even on the fly.

Traditional methods drifting close in near features, inlets, rock faces and overhanging trees works perfectly. Simple traditional flies like Greenwells Glory, Black Pennel, March Brown, Peter Ross, Bloody Butcher and Kate McClaren, Clan Chieftain will always catch fish here. Add in Invicta and Wickams for the sedge hatches, daddies and hoppers, Dawl Back and Bibio for a range of flies sure to attract trout.

If fishing is the attraction the location must be the ideal accompaniment. The loch is 13km long, 1 km wide and 120m deep with steep craggy mountains plunging into the glacial glen. The aura of being somewhere special infuses the blood as you drift around the bays and inlets. Natural forest is reflected in the still waters, eagles soar and red deer roam these hills, trout dimple the surface of the loch.

Where once you could only walk and wish, you can now fish.

July 2010

Report for caught fish on the loch - total weight 3.61 lbs comprising 13.1, 12.5, 11.1, 11.0, 10.4 ozs. Fish came to Black Pennel, Grouse & Claret and Bloody Butcher. Stomach contents indicate they are feeding on what appears to be caddis pupae as I found the casings of stone and grass packed in the stomachs.

All fish were taken close to shore except on cruiser which surfaced late afternoon when the wind had died down.

The above information from a single day on the loch was kindly sent in by John Jackson.

21st May 2010

We went up the Loch to the top end at Glengyle. I caught 10 or 11 first rate brown trout up to about 1.25 lbs in weight. My Dad caught 3 and released four.I also caught a pike in the weed beds at Glengyle which was about 10lbs. It was almost flat calm the whole day. The flies were Kate McLaren and bibio. Thanks for a great day. John Patrick