Fly fishing dot. Come and fly-fish in the Scottish Highlands with professional fishing guide, internationally qualified fly fishing instructor and outfitter Alastair (Ally) Gowans. Or better still enjoy a vacation, a holiday combined with fly casting tuition to the highest standards. Learn to Spey cast, fish famous water such as the Rivers Tay, Spey, South Esk, North Esk, Ericht, Tummel, Lyon, Tilt, and Lochs like Rannoch, Leven, Ness, Tay, and many others in Angus, Perthshire and throughout Scotland. Angling success depends on local knowledge, having a good guide, ghillie (or gillie), is essential. Scotland has the finest fishing in the United Kingdom (UK). Ally Gowans is a well respected APGAI (Advanced Professional Game Angling Instructor) qualified tutor and an FFF Master & Two Handed Casting Instructor, an AAPGAI Master instructor and a licensed coach in addition to being an expert fishing guide.

Learn the secrets of successful fly fishing in the Scottish Highlands, enjoy guided trips, holidays or vacations based in Pitlochry and fly fishing throughout Scotland for rainbow trout, brown, trout, grayling, salmon and pike. You even learn how to tie some of the World's most acclaimed salmon flies invented by Ally Gowans, Ally's Shrimp, Cascade and several others. Accommodation, guides, fishing tackle, fly fishing tuition and off road transport may be included in a package designed especially for you.

Individual instruction - learn how to Spey cast, roll cast, underhand cast, double haul, overhead cast and indeed any type of fly casting. A couple of hours can transform your frustration into satisfaction!

Fishing in Tayside and in the Highlands of Scotland

If you are looking for the ideal place to go fishing or to learn fly fishing. If you want fly casting instruction or just some value for money trout and salmon fishing, then look no further. Ally's Angling Page is about fly fishing, fly casting instruction and fishing schools in Tayside, Scotland the region of rivers and lochs teeming with fish. Trout, salmon, sea trout, pike, grayling and even some coarse fishing is available. The site includes lots of trout and salmon fly fishing information and when viewed with companion sites letsflyfish and flyfish-scotland it will form a useful reference for anglers. Letsflyfish features worldwide fly fishing topics, flyfish-scotland focuses on Scotland and Ally's Angling Page will concentrate on Tayside, Perthshire and Angus, my homeland in the Scottish highlands and surrounding area.

Tayside - Angus, Dundee and Perthshire

Tayside is a large and diverse area encompassing the Counties of Perthshire, Kinross and Angus and the City of Dundee. Perthshire includes Loch Laidon with its huge population of wild brown trout at the western extremity of Rannoch Moor, one of Europe's last true wilderness areas. Kinross expands south and includes Loch Leven, Scotland's most famous trout loch. Angus reaches east to the estuary of the River North Esk said to be one of the World's most prolific Atlantic salmon rivers and north to Loch Lee home of Arctic char nestled in the sub-alpine heights of the Grampian Mountains.

The mighty River Tay drainage is the largest in the United Kingdom and home of record fish including the largest ever rod caught salmon in Britain. This monster weighed 64 pounds and was landed by Miss Georgina Ballantine at Glendelvine on October 7, 1922. Since then Tayside has held the record for the largest wild brown trout in the United Kingdom and it is very likely that it will produce another record breaker in the future. Excellent quality roach and huge pike inhabit some of our lochs and rivers. The varied sea shore of Angus provides excellent sea fishing, especially for North Sea cod.

Within Tayside's rich territory of mountain, moor, farmland, seashore, cliffs and estuaries there are many great angling opportunities waiting to be explored and enjoyed. For the meantime however Ally's Angling Page will concentrate on gamefishing. guide book covers all aspects of fishing in Perthshire, Angus and Dundee.