Brown Trout

Trout fishing in Scotland comes in many, many forms. You can cast an upstream dry fly to a rising fish in a Perthshire river, or flick a team of spiders across a fast, streamy run where a tributary meets the main stem.

Perhaps hiking through the hills to fish a series of remote lochans is more your style, or exploring the pocket water on a highland burn with a fast-sinking nymph.

The most popular method here is to fish ‘loch style’ with traditional Scottish wet flies while drifting a loch on a boat – give it a try, it’s a great day out.

Rainbow Trout

Although Scotland is best known for its wild brown trout, there are plenty of lochs stocked with rainbow trout (introduced from North America in the 19th century). These can provide great sport when high water makes river fishing difficult or impossible. In addition, many rainbow trout fisheries are open all year round, allowing us to go on fishing during the closed season for brown trout (7 October to 14 March inclusive). 

Our Trophy Trout Trip

Each year we make a pilgrimage north to some of the most productive wild brown trout waters in the United Kingdom. It’s called Fishinguide’s Trophy Trout Trip, and we’re targeting the large trout that live in the remote lochs of the Orkney Islands. It’s remote, it’s never crowded and it may well be the place where you catch the trout of your life. Click READ MORE for info on our latest Trophy Trout Trip.

Perthshire

The real gem of Perthshire is the River Tay and its tributaries. It’s massively underestimated for its trout fishing, largely because it’s a salmon river. This means the trout are left to do their own thing, and their thing is to grow – both in size and number. Perthshire also has lots of great lochs for trout fishing, some of which are stocked but most are entirely wild.

Argyll

Argyll has it all. The very biggest trout in the UK can be found in Argyll (the current record is 31lb 10oz), and one of our guides is considered the UK’s best angler for these enormous fish. There are hundreds of lochs filled with beautiful wild brownies, rivers where they can be taken using spiders, nymphs or dry flies, and also estuaries and coastline where hard-fighting sea trout can be caught.