Baby salmon caught in river, Highlands, Scotland
Alladale Wilderness Reserve, Scotland’s largest eco-tourism. This is a 23,000 acre wilderness - 36 square miles covering five glens, 10 hill lochs and two river systems. Scotland has over six thousand lochs (lakes), ranging from small hill lochs offering wild brown trout fishing to some of the largest freshwater bodies in the UK with fishing for salmon, sea trout, artic char, ferrox trout, brown trout, grayling, pike, perch and chubb. There are also very few places in Scotland where you are not within easy reach of one of the hundreds of rainbow trout stillwater fisheries. There are more than a hundred quality salmon and trout rivers ranging from small spate rivers to world famous names such as the rivers Tay, Spey, Dee and the Tweed. Once the alevins have absorbed their yolk sacs, the tiny fish learn to swim and to fend for themselves. They are called salmon fry. They hide under stones where they
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