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In the 1892 annual report of the Fishery Board for Scotland, Loch Tulla was noted as having trout fishing that was unsurpassed in Scotland sixty years prior, but had since been ruined by the introduction of pike by Lord Breadalbane after being advised by "some dangerous person" to do so in 1848. [1]
This list of lochs in Scotland includes the majority of bodies of standing freshwater named as lochs but only a small selection of the generally smaller, and very numerous, lochans. This list does not currently include the reservoirs of Scotland except where these are modifications of pre-existing lochs and retain the name "loch" or "lochan".
Loch Maree (Scottish Gaelic: Loch Ma-ruibhe) [7] is a loch in Wester Ross in the Northwest Highlands of Scotland.At 21.7 km (13.46 mi) long [1] and with a maximum width of four kilometres (2 + 1 ⁄ 2 mi), it is the fourth-largest freshwater loch in Scotland; it is the largest north of Loch Ness.
The River Leven (Scottish Gaelic: Uisge Leamhna) is a stretch of water in West Dunbartonshire, Scotland, flowing from Loch Lomond in the North to the River Clyde [1] in the South. The river is about 6 miles (10 kilometres) long. It is very popular with salmon and sea trout anglers, trying to catch one of these migratory fish going up to Loch ...
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Along with Loch Lomond, it is the only naturally occurring habitat of the powan (fish), [3] [4] although it is closely related to the gwyniad and other similar fish. The loch also has salmon, sea trout, brown trout and arctic char. [5] Loch Eck is within the Argyll Forest Park, which is itself part of the Loch Lomond and The Trossachs National ...
For a list of Scottish bodies of freshwater please see List of lochs in Scotland. Map of sea Lochs of Scotland compiled from this list See the list of places in Scotland for other places. There are numerous sea lochs around the Scottish coast, notably down the length of Scotland's western coast. A sea loch is a tidal inlet of the sea which may ...
Loch Watten is a loch in the River Wick drainage basin in Caithness, Scotland. [1] The name is a tautology, consisting of the word "loch" (of Gaelic origin) and vatn, a Norse word meaning the very same, found in such names as "Þingvallavatn" and Myvatn in Iceland, and "Røssvatnet" and "Møsvatn" in Norway.