Ferox Trout

[lgf]

this is a quote from another site

"A ferox trout is is a trout which has turned cannibal. Juvenile trout live on insects and grubs, but when a brown trout reaches about 12" in length it can change diets. At that size it can catch and eat other fish up to half its own length. Such a sizeable meal is rich in protein and may require less effort to obtain. As a result trout which discover this food source soon pack on the weight. Growth curves which may have been gentle can now explode. Not very many trout take this option, perhaps due to a lack of prey fish. Some lochs such as Rannoch are famous for their ferox, these lochs often have good heads of charr and perch as a food source. Loch Tay has given up ferox to 16lb in recent years."

i looked for this after a friend returned from a weekend fishing trip to Loch Arkaig last year and returned with the ugliest looking...teen weight broonie any of us had ever seen...we had heard of Ferox but this was the first we heard of caught..(if it was a ferox) by anyone...all the tales are usually "i heard of a guy"...or ..."there's a big ol' fish in there"

any of you guys actually caught or seen one..?

[neilson]

seen them caught on the telly but never seen one caught live,ive heard the best way tae catch them is in a boat fished very deep with dead bait

[Jock]

Now heard that some guys are using full trout trawled dead bait for the capture of these chappies. But do you want to sit on a boat all day trawling a dead fish up and down a loch all day then putting it back in? Here, they like a Char or 2, no that is a Char no a Cha Michael, so don't be cutting up Cha the next time you go fishing.
Never caught a ferox mate. But they are better looking than Kasta and you have more chance of smoking a ferox than getting a smoke of kasta.