species of game fish?

**jackfishing21** · 01-03-2008, 09:50

i no in coarse and sea theres alot of different species but how many are in game? just wanted to no because id like to target as many game fish on the fly as possible
regards jack

**bigads** · 01-03-2008, 10:52

If its the UK there aren't that many, abroad the list is huge.

You have salmon, sea trout, brown trout and Grayling....if you are lucky some river have Char. Thats the native ones I can think of.

The non native ones I think are just trout like rainbow, brook, blue, golden and tigers.

I'm sure I've missed some but those are the only ones I can think of atm.

**SHARPIE** · 01-03-2008, 19:51

agree with the above although i think there is one more but cant remember which it is. might be classed as coarse but actually game but nae sure

**TommyB** · 11-03-2008, 10:21

Could add Feroc trout to the list too , but those are few and far between.
Loch Awe holds a few, deep deep down there be monsters!

not much chance of getting them on the fly tho, deep trolling seems to be the most common method.

**penn2** · 22-03-2008, 17:25

we also have artic grayling,only found in loch melt on skye.
you could also class shad as one, comes to a few welsh rivers in the west to spawn.
rainbow trout could be included to a point as there are some breading populations of them in some rivers which have been breeding for 10 years or so..

**yorkio** · 23-03-2008, 10:15

Originally Posted by penn2

we also have artic grayling,only found in loch melt on skye.
you could also class shad as one, comes to a few welsh rivers in the west to spawn.
rainbow trout could be included to a point as there are some breading populations of them in some rivers which have been breeding for 10 years or so..

That's Arctic char in Loch Mealt, I think, not grayling. And shad are more like dirty great big herring rather than from the salmon family, which I suppose is how we'd normally define game fish over here.

How about powan and vendace? Not exactly thick on the ground and so rare they're illegal to fish for, but they're certainly British game fish.

**ickypimp** · 23-03-2008, 15:30

Originally Posted by TommyB

Could add Feroc trout to the list too , but those are few and far between.
Loch Awe holds a few, deep deep down there be monsters!

not much chance of getting them on the fly tho, deep trolling seems to be the most common method.

FEROX is brown trout, thet are large, deep living predatory brown trout (picsatatian) but not a seperate species

tiger and lepoard are hybrids

**penn2** · 23-03-2008, 18:33

no its not artic char in loch melt,its artic grayling.went to skye some 6 years ago and on day ticket for this loch from club says there is a population of these in the loch from last ice age.

**Davy Holt** · 23-03-2008, 19:09

Hiya,

I'm tending to agree with Yorkio on this one, I've done quite a bit of searching and cant find any UK reference for Arctic Grayling, there is no record for them Scottish or UK and as you can see from here even our native Grayling is only really found in Running water