Fishing On River Teith, Scotland
by Tony Smith
This year we had the pleasure of fishing for sea trout, trout and
Salmon in Callander in
Scotland on the river
Teith.
The water
quality and clarity is
excellent, the area
beside the car park in
Callander town centre
provides excellent
wading. The wading is
easy going, with a
smooth sandy bottom to
the river. Fly
Fishing
Brown Trout
Fishing
All though
most angles visit this
river for it's runs of
salmon and sea trout the
growing brown trout
population is often
overlooked. We had a
number of small brown
trout on the dry fly and
one or two on small
nympths.
Equipment:
9ft 6-7 Fly Rod on Dry
fly Line Sea Trout
This perhaps my
favourite type of
fishing, in the dark, up
to your waste in water.
We found that on this
water you need a decent
downpour of rain to get
any kind of run of sea
trout.
 The pools, at
the meetings and just at
the bridge is where we
found most of our
action, casting our fly
just below the tree's on
the far bank. We lost (I
know terrible but it
happens to us all) two
or three decent fish and
landed one 4lb fresh run
sea trout.
Equipment:
We were using 10ft 8wt
single hander Airflow
sls fly rods, these
provided excellent
casting and bite
detection Salmon
We had little luck on
the fly with the salmon
but did not anglers with
two handed fly rods and
heavy brass tube flies
seamed to have more
luck. In desperation we
switched to spinning
tactics using Flying C's
we landed two 10lb
salmon that were rather
coloured.
Upon
speaking to the Balif we
discovered that this is
the norm for this venue.
However it was good
sport.
Equipment: 10ft
Spinning rod, Braid Line
and Flying C's Our
Opinion
The venue is
relatively cheap for
salmon fishing, everyone
is happy to help the
more novice angler.
Wading is easy and safe.
Good choice of sport
from trout fishing to
salmon fishing. We would
give this venue 4/5
About the Author
Tony Smith
Gofishingshop - Fishing
tackle and fly fishing
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