| The Allan Water is controlled by the Allan Water | | | | Equipment - 6/7 9ft 6 Trout Fly Rod with Floating |
| Angling Improvement Association, you can buy | | | | Line |
| permits by the day from the Dunblane post office | | | | Flies - Dry Fly and Wet Flies (the day we fished |
| or join the waiting list for the association. The | | | | just about anything was catching) |
| waiting list to join is a about a year but this venue | | | | The Fishing |
| is members only on a saturday. | | | | We found this river to teaming with lots of small |
| We fished the upper pools on beat 1. The pools | | | | brown trout about 6inch long which must be |
| are up near braco just before the hotel. We only | | | | viewed as an encouraging site, in fact we |
| used Fly Fishing as our method although you can | | | | managed to catch around 20 (all of which were |
| spin for Salmon and Trout | | | | safely returned to the water) |
| Salmon Fishing | | | | We found We had Great Success with Wet Flies |
| Equipment - Single Handed AirFlow, SLS Fly Rod. | | | | and Small Size 16 Dry Flies. We generally had the |
| Location | | | | dry fly on the top dropper and the wet on the |
| There is no need for wading at this location as | | | | point. |
| the river is not a large river. You can fish from | | | | Overall |
| the Far bank with ease. However this water really | | | | A nice clean venue, ideal for in-experienced Fly |
| needs to have a lot of rain before it fishes well. | | | | Fishing, Easy Access and Depending on the |
| The banks are clean and well maintained and the | | | | weather a good chance of a salmon. This is a |
| water quality is excellent | | | | great place to learn how to fish on a river. |
| Flies - Stoat Tail and Pot Belly Pig. | | | | On the things to note about this venue is the fact |
| We fished for a number of hours, without much | | | | that they actually stock the river with brown |
| luck and decided to change fly to a pot belly pig, | | | | trout to supplement the natural fish stocks. I did |
| within half an hour I had managed to land a 6lb | | | | notice large amounts of small brown trout about 1 |
| Grilse. It took me over half and hour to land the | | | | - 2 inches in size, which is a real positive as it |
| fish. (We returned the fish safely to the river) I | | | | means the the natural fish are spawning and this |
| can see now why the Pot Belly Pig is such a | | | | can only result in making the venue and even |
| popular fly. | | | | better trout fishing mark. |
| Trout Fishing | | | | |