Loch Leven is the venue that gave its name to a strain of trout. That alone should tell you something. For over a century this broad Kinross-shire loch was the benchmark — the water against which other stillwaters were measured, the place where international competitions were decided, the hatchery that seeded half the reservoirs in Britain with fish that carried its name. It's a shallow, fertile, wind-blown loch fished almost entirely from boats drifting the loch-style way with teams of wets on the bob. The trout are not huge by modern standards but they fight hard, take with conviction, and there is something quietly affecting about casting a fly over water that has mattered for so long, to so many people. A fish from Loch Leven is a fish with history.
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