Just been told by a friend of mine that a new local fishery have stocked not only Rainbows but Artic Char.

Is this possible, I though Scotland was about as far south as they could be sustained?

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you sure it is arctic char and not brook char...

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If it is Artic Charr does it no t go back to the same debate as the one on Atlantic Salmon where they may have the same genetic make up but that's where the similarity stops?

Think I may give this a miss

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Are we talking salmo fontinalis, the American 'Brook Trout'? I suspect so rather than Artic Char.
Regarding their distribution in the UK they are in a very few N Wales llyns. Llyn Peris is probably the best one to fish for them.
Rusty

'Salvelinus alpinus perisii'

That lake was drained many years ago and the remnant charr moved to a couple of deep reservoirs in the locality (Snowdonia). Llyn Padarn, a few hundred yards downstream of Peris still has a healthy charr population but I regret to say they are extinct in Peris.


'Cound fishery' in Shropshire has stocked Arctic charr - perhaps this is the one 'matt' had in mind? I understand they are of Icelandic fish farm origin. They would do irrepairable genetic damage if they were ever allowed to mix with our indiginous charr populations.

is this fishery in northern ireland mate?

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I see through people for a living!!

Cairnhill Farm has them, but I think it is only the odd one or two. Stocked in among the rainbows, they are farmed fish not native.

Not sure of the fishery name, but off there this weekend, so will let you all know. Did seem a strange thing mind you!

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Our local had Char stocked for a while..........nice looking fish too.......but they don't really fight that hard , tend to stay in deeper water and shoal....

So when you find them you pretty much hammer them !! Buzzers set quite deep with a bung can be deadly , pink skinny buzzers I seem to recall were very effective with dead slow Fig 8 and pauses...will usually hit you on the drop or as soon as you start retrieve...you will usually see a twitch of your bung then get ready , next time it moves strike immediately............ Very rarely (in fact never) caught them with dry tactics.....

Well fished the fishery on Saturday. The fishery is located near the A453/A38, near to a vineyard. Newly created pools, with 10 for coarse and one trout pool. Their leaflet states that they have stocked rainbows, brown, blue and brook trout, as well as artic char. Unfortunately the manager was not around to question, but one of the coarse anglers confirmed that char had been placed in the lake.

After a hard days fishing on what is a relatively small water I managed one beautiful brownie and one brook trout, which gave a good accounting for itself. Shall be back to try and see if I can catch one of those char!

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