RIVER EARN

The River Earn runs from Loch Earn Eastwards across Scotland to the North Sea at The Firth of Tay. It has Brown Trout, Sea Trout, Salmon, Rainbow Trout and Grayling.
The Haugh beat at Aberuthven, where we fish can be found on OS Map 58 1:50,000 series.

• The Haugh:-
  This stretch of the river is at Aberuthven, on the A9 between Dunblane and Perth. The beat is one bank of approximately 1¹/²km, it starts at the top with a deep run down the side of what would be an island in high water into a long shallow pool to a weir. From here down the river is a series of long slow runs with small places of fast water between them. In the right height of water the stretch can be waded, with chest waders, for most of its length.
  Fly fishing, Spinning and worming are allowed but prawn and shrimp are banned.
  The best times to fish? Brown Trout in the summer months , Grayling all year, Salmon in the Autumn, sea trout from May onwards. Personally I find the fly to be the most successful, and most satisfying, method for all species.
  

  E-mail received from George Sutherland Oct 2002.
  

  As a regular fisher on the river earn for more than 20yrs the last 2yrs have been very poor for trout and grayling fishing im not sure about salmon fishing as im not in that heavily priced bracket yet,I hope this year for grayling goes back to normal because when it does its a good a river as any and better than most this year i had 2 brown trout around 5lb in AUG and as usual loads of small fish all year
  yours geordie

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