www.magiscroft.comPremier coarse fishery for carp, tench and roach. Magiscroft has 128 pegs on six waters, well stocked with a wide variety of coarse fish species – custom built by coarse anglers. With a to
p-quality café, bait and tackle shop and secure parking in a beautiful setting, there’s everything you need to relax and enjoy.
2 RIVER SPEY www.fishspey.co.uk The River Spey is the home of speycasting and one of Scotland’s big four salmon rivers. It has the third-largest drainage area after the Tay and Tweed and is the second-longest after the Tay. However, its major attraction is its size and the strength of its stream – in the middle and lower river it falls on average 12ft per mile – the greatest of any British river.
3 SEA FISHING OFF OBAN/MULLCharters: Ronnie Campbell, 01631 750213 or Donald McLean, 01631 720414
Boat charters here make the most of the giant skate fishing. These can attain weights of over 200lb and are tagged and released after capture.
Other species include specimen and record-weight spurdog, thornback rays and hake, as well as lesser spotted dogfish, which are common to the west coast of Scotland.
4 RIVER TWEED www.fishtweed.co.uk The Tweed has always been internationally famous for its salmon fishing, with people coming from all over the world to fish it. After three record-breaking years, not only does the Tweed produce catches of more Atlantic salmon than any other river in the European Union, but it also now ranks among the very top salmon rivers in the world.
5 BROWN TROUT FISHING ON THE WESTERN ISLESwww.fishhebrides.co.uk The Western Isles of Lewis, Harris and the Uists are something of an angling paradise, with thousands of lochs offering some of the highest-quality trout fishing in Scotland and, although some of the salmon and sea-trout fishing is quite exclusive and expensive, most of the trout fishing is readily accessible at reasonable cost.
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