Me and my Friend Tom fished Loch Venachar today and it was pretty hard going. It was flat calm all morning with the odd dimple of a rise to be seen, then a cool easterly breeze in the afternoon seemed to put everything down.

We had some sport though, all on the dry fly and all in the first half of our day up to about 2.00pm. Tom rose 4 connected with 2 and landed one of about 3/4Lb. I rose 5 connected with 2 and landed one just over 1Lb.

I was fishing a claret hopper and a hares ear hopper when it was flat calm and Tom was fishing various CDC's. We did try a few other patterns and methods throughout the day, with no success.

It's a fabulous set up at Loch Venachar, although it's a bit pricey for a mid-week boat at £41.00 for 2 anglers; £25.00 for the boat and £8 each for a 5-fish limit fishing permit. Including Tom and I there was a total of two boats out.

Loch Venachar - Link to information - http://www.trossachs-leisure.co.uk/c...page/Itemid,1/



Tom's fish caught on a CDC


My fish caught on a claret hooper

Hi, guys - I'm back on Venachar on Wednesday - any up to date info would be appreciated - and I promise to report back!

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Dave

I wouldnt say £41 for two people fishing from a boat on a five fish limit each is expensive.
I would say, dont move to the south of England if you want cheap fishing.

Ron.

Yea - I think it's OK VFM wise (or I wouldn't go!) but a number of others are iffy - see previous thread for details:

Loch Venachar

Regards,

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the loch is a changing, mainly due to the stocking policy there, throwing in non native (in the strain sense, not the species) browns. Now you'll end up stockie bashing there, ok browns but still stockies.OK if thats what u want and there ain't a problem with that. But look at the 2 photos, very different fish. The 1st one looks "real" colours and spots.Quite probably a native trout, or at least has some native genes....The 2nd one is pallid in comparison, very few spots and is clearly a stockie...(not a dig at flyonly here). They want to make venachar the "No 1 brown water " but I can't see how this will work. They are charging much more than previously, for stocked trout, might as well be rainbows really, like mentieth.

Your information doesn't stack up with some of the major fisheries "down south". Here is the 2007 price liost from Anglian Water (Rutland et al)
Trout Fishing Prices 2007

FlyOnly, not sure what point you are making with the AW prices, but thanks for the help on flies in your first post!

Kreid, I'm not getting into the browns/rainbow issue, or the wild/stock issue here, fascinating as they are.

I'm simply fishing fishing Venachar on Wednesday and looking for some up to date info!

Regards,

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Dave

Dave,

I thought the reply I made to geordiedownsouth on pricing was clear, where comparing Rutland et al with prices in Scotland, shows that the prices "down south" are not that expensive on a relative basis.

With Venachar, it's the add-on requirement for the individual fishing permit that makes it a relatively expensive day out, when compared to other Scottish waters.

Bill

Well, here it is! We had a very pleasant, if piscatorially challenging day! A few fish showing around Submarine bay in the morning - managed to get 2 (one small one returned) one on a black and green booby - honest, it was only there to keep my Clan Chief and Kate a bit higher up in the water - and then nothing. Tried otter island, boathouse, grass bank and the road shore for only one pull during the afternoon. A bit dour! The wind was chopping and changing around all day - NE in the morning, SW later in the PM and everything in between. 3 seasons in one day, really, with only winter missing, thankfully! Still, good company and lovely scenery.

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Hi guys, im fishing venacher on the 25th and 26th of august for the youth trials and wondering if anyone has any help they can offer me as im a novice on the competition scene.

please guys, all help appreciated.

Martin

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