Loch of Craiglush is a 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 ...

, located around north-east of Dunkeld in

Perth and Kinross Perth and Kinross ( sco, Pairth an Kinross; gd, Peairt agus Ceann Rois) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland and a Lieutenancy Area. It borders onto the Aberdeenshire, Angus, Argyll and Bute, Clackmannanshire, Dundee, Fife, Highland and S ...

, Scotland. The loch is a designated

Site of Special Scientific Interest A Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI) in Great Britain or an Area of Special Scientific Interest (ASSI) in the Isle of Man and Northern Ireland is a conservation designation denoting a protected area in the United Kingdom and Isle of ...

(SSSI), as well as forming part of a Special Area of Conservation.

Fishing

Loch of Craiglush, Loch of the Lowes, Loch of Butterstone, Loch of Clunie, Loch of Drumellie, Loch Rae, Fingask Loch,

Loch White ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spel ...

and

Loch Black ''Loch'' () is the Scottish Gaelic, Scots and Irish word for a lake or sea inlet. It is cognate with the Manx lough, Cornish logh, and one of the Welsh words for lake, llwch. In English English and Hiberno-English, the anglicised spel ...

and the

Stormont Loch Stormont Loch is a small irregular lowland freshwater loch, that is partially in-filled. It located in a nature reserve owned by the Scottish Wildlife Trust, on a north-east to south-west orientation and is 2 miles southeast of Blairgowrie in ...

form a series of lochs all draining into the Lunan Burn, which flows into the River Isla before its junction with the

River Tay The River Tay ( gd, Tatha, ; probably from the conjectured Brythonic ''Tausa'', possibly meaning 'silent one' or 'strong one' or, simply, 'flowing') is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in Great Britain. The Tay originates ...

. All these rivers contain pike and perch and trout are taken in Lochs Craiglush, Lowes and Butterstone.

References

{{reflist, refs= {{citation , year = 1903 , title = Bathymetrical Survey of the Fresh-Water Lochs of Scotland 1897-1909 , publisher = National Library of Scotland , url=http://maps.nls.uk/bathymetric/chart.cfm?id=2088 {{citation , title = Dunkeld - Blairgowrie Lochs , publisher = Joint Nature Conservation Committee , url=http://jncc.defra.gov.uk/protectedsites/sacselection/sac.asp?EUcode=UK0012638 Craiglush Protected areas of Perth and Kinross Sites of Special Scientific Interest in Scotland Special Areas of Conservation in Scotland Tay catchment