Loch Awe is twenty-five miles long and holds everything from small sparkling wild brown trout to ferox the size of a medium sheep, which may sound improbable until you've seen one come up on a dead bait in forty feet of water. It is Argyll's inland sea, held in a fold of high country and ruled by the Atlantic weather that rolls in off Mull and Lismore — a loch that can be flat calm and diamond-clear at breakfast and rolling white by lunchtime, which is the kind of thing the regulars find amusing and visitors find sobering. Fishing is boat work in the main — drifting the bays and island runs for wild brown trout through spring and early summer, trolling the deep water for the ferox that make Awe famous, and picking off the occasional sea trout on the lower reaches near the Awe Barrage. Pike are a genuine fly quarry here for anyone with the tackle and the inclination. The Loch Awe Improvement Association is the fishing authority and boats are available through local hotels and marinas. A proper day on Awe is the kind that stays with you for a year.
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