A west-coast salmon and sea-trout river with a strong restoration and monitoring story. It rises around Ledgowan Forest / Glen Carron, runs via Loch Dughaill and enters Loch Carron near Strathcarron, broadly followed by the A890 and the Kyle railway. The angling page must be conservation-first: strict catch-and-release, a specific local marking/inspection protocol, and sober wording on sea-trout decline.

River Carron (Wester Ross)

Greenwell's Glory

Blue Winged Olive

Waterhen Bloa

CDC Emerger

Black & Silver Tube

Medicine Fly

Silver Stoat

Teal Blue & Silver

Black Pennell

Snake Fly (Black)

Loch Maree

River Ewe / Loch Maree

Beauly

One of three practical permit beats on the Carron (with New Kelso 1 and 2), under the River Carron proprietors with active conservation and stocking work. Salmon lies have been enhanced so the river fishes in low water. The estate-linked, sometimes hosted option.

Attadale

One of the Lochcarron permit beats on the lower river near Strathcarron — practical, permit-based access under the River Carron proprietors, with the same conservation/marking regime as the rest of the river.

New Kelso 1

The second Lochcarron New Kelso permit beat — permit-based access under the River Carron proprietors, sharing the river's restoration story and strict conservation regime.

New Kelso 2

Premium estate/hosted salmon water — let weekly with a ghillie. The upper-end, less publicly available option on the system; treat as hold/verify until current lets are confirmed.

Glencalvie and Gruinards

A restoration-and-monitoring honesty module, not a beat. Stocks collapsed in the late 1990s; a long restoration and stocking effort followed, and a 2025 radio-tracking project examines salmon passage at barriers such as Glencalvie Falls and the Glen Beag dam. WildFish reported a 2025 downgrade to Poor (Grade 3) — verify against current Scottish Government grading, but treat as a serious conservation flag.

River Carron (Wester Ross)

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