Loch Drunkie ( gd, Loch Drongaidh, ) is a small freshwater
loch
''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots language, Scots and Irish language, Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is Cognate, cognate with the Manx language, Manx lough, Cornish language, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh language, Welsh w ...
in the
Trossachs
The Trossachs (; gd, Na TrĂ²iseachan) generally refers to an area of wooded glens, braes, and lochs lying to the east of Ben Lomond in the Stirling council area of Scotland. The name is taken from that of a small woodland glen that lies at the ...
near
Aberfoyle Aberfoyle may refer to:
*Aberfoyle, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland
* Aberfoyle, Stirling, Scotland
* Aberfoyle, Ontario, Canada
* Aberfoyle, Texas, United States
*Aberfoyle, Warwick
Aberfoyle is a heritage-listed detached house at 35 Woo ...
in the
Stirling
Stirling (; sco, Stirlin; gd, Sruighlea ) is a city in central Scotland, northeast of Glasgow and north-west of Edinburgh. The market town, surrounded by rich farmland, grew up connecting the royal citadel, the medieval old town with its me ...
council area {{Unreferenced, date=May 2019, bot=noref (GreenC bot)
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, Scotland.
Geography
This picturesque and irregular Highland loch is shut on all sides by high hills.
Fishing
Since the 19th century, the loch has been well-known for containing a good stock of
pike
Pike, Pikes or The Pike may refer to:
Fish
* Blue pike or blue walleye, an extinct color morph of the yellow walleye ''Sander vitreus''
* Ctenoluciidae, the "pike characins", some species of which are commonly known as pikes
* ''Esox'', genus of ...
and
brown trout
The brown trout (''Salmo trutta'') is a European species of salmonid fish that has been widely introduced into suitable environments globally. It includes purely freshwater populations, referred to as the riverine ecotype, ''Salmo trutta'' morph ...
. The fishing season lasts now from mid-March to the beginning of October.
References
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Lochs of Stirling (council area)
Protected areas of Stirling (council area)
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Trossachs
Freshwater lochs of Scotland