Expert Guided Trout Fishing Tours in the Scottish Highlands

 There is more than one way to catch trout but let’s take a look at how you might enjoy a guided trout fishing day in the Scottish Highlands.

Our challenge is to imitate what we think the trout might be feeding on and that can very from day to day and even hour to hour. Luckily I have a few thousand flies to choose from and nearly sixty years experience of choosing flies. Even then, it can still be tough when they are being picky!

The locations we go to for boat fishing in lochs vary from small sheltered lochs to big waters like Loch Ness, always very beautiful Highland places though. It’s a fantastic day out that people never forget. Stopping for lunch on some remote shore, making a wee fire to brew up tea or coffee. 

There are quite a few lochs I know of where there is a good hatch of Mayfly in late May and June and this can be very exciting with trout eager for a few big mouthfuls. Some of the bigger lochs have some very big wild brown trout and a few of these monsters are caught every year.

While we are talking about boat fishing, we regularly fish a great loch for big rainbow trout. Many of them are over 10lb and the biggest one of our guests had last year was about 20lb – I could barely get it in the net. Strong tackle is needed with rods of #7-9 and leaders of 10-12lb. 

Most of the rainbow trout fishing we do is in smaller fisheries where the fish are still big and powerful but more likely to average 2-3 lb. There are facilities like toilets and huts or cabins for teamaking, lunch or shelter. A trip like this can be one person or groups up to 20 and makes a great team building event or family outing. Realistically, I would say 6 years old is a minimum age and that is to with strength to hold and cast a fly rod plus attention span.