I know i'm new to the forum but i cant help but ask questions

has anyone caught a char in scotland ?

i'v never seen one get caught . but i beleive they are present in the lubnaig [which iv blanked on since ....forever] and loch tay and rannoch , great looking fish when i look at pictures , salmon family i beleive .

has anyone got any stories or tales to tell ? has anyone caught a char in scotland ?

Got one in the loch of Girlsta in Shetland earlier this year late at night,the fish rose a few times close in so I ran over to cover it thinking it was a brownie it rose again and I covered it with a black sedge hog it took straight away,knew right away something wasnt right then saw the red of the fins through the water.

Lochs Lochy and Arkaig have very large char because of the fishfarms on them.
above Lubnaig you have the smaller lochs Voil and Doin which hold large stocks of small char.

Jim

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The Fishermans Friend is the Flirty Fly,Fickle Food for Fleeting Fish.

Many moons ago I had some nice Char from the Garry system, lots of them in fact. Caught them mostly on streamers, but I never carried a camera much in those days.
http://www.panoramicearth.com/780/Sc...nds/Loch_Garry
Sadly, the Garry system also has smolt cages which have no doubt changed the way the fish feed, but it's worth a visit in the latter half of the season

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I know a few of the high lying glacial lochs with them in ...eg loch Avon.

Might stand more chance getting them on fly than the deeper big lochs.

another question ,,, can you actually target a char or is it just by chance there caught ? and what sort of average size are they ?

ledyatt loch near the piper dam {dundee} has stocked char as does parkview loch in collessie. had a few of them around the 2lb mark lovely fish. fight like wild broonies.

cheers

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gus

thats quite good to know that there is a place that you can target them , are the stocked amoung trout ?

Hugh Falkus wrote a lot about catching charr by Windermere trolling methods in 'Freshwater Fishing' - co-written with Fred Buller.

There's been a fair bit about them on this forum too. Do a search for charr.


Ron Greer's book 'Ferox Trout and Arctic Charr' is a good read; Ron discovered a new subspecies, well a genetically distinct variety, in Loch Rannoch.



PiB

hi mate

yes along with rainbows, browns, blues, and tigers. they are quite hard to get hold of though

cheers

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gus