Fishing The Fly Scotland Forum

Bob Mitchell

Re: salmon farms
« Reply #15 on: 13/10/2017 at 14:20 »
Mention of Loch Eilt brings back happy memory's of sitting in a boat dapping and the sea trout coming out of nowhere head and tailing for the fly. My friend had a cottage on the banks of the river out of the loch which looked like straight out of Brigadoon.
Bob.

Derek Roxborough

Re: salmon farms
« Reply #16 on: 13/10/2017 at 21:17 »
remember Nature abhors a vacuum, if you remove a species, then something will replace it,this was found out on the Grand banks when the cod were gone , another species replaced them , it was Lobsters, the cod there had been keeping the lobsters in check, once they were gone the lobsters thrived, I'm not suggesting there will be lobsters, but probably brown trout will move in to fill the niche, unless there is an expensive restocking program, you can't win  :X1 Derek Roxborough

Hamish Young

Re: salmon farms
« Reply #17 on: 16/10/2017 at 08:58 »
In fairness those West coast lochs I knew as a youngster for their Sea Trout have become - on the whole - pretty good Brown Trout waters which isn't all that surprising I suppose.
Must go back next season and explore some more.

 




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