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Article #161: Fly Fishing on River Allan

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






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