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Best arctic char lakes in United Kingdom

499 United Kingdom waters hold arctic char. Ranked below by size and depth-data quality — open any water to see exactly where to fish it: depth contours, scored spots with plain-English reasons, seasonal windows and bait picks. Cold-water beauty that thrives where trout sulk — shallow at ice-out, deep all summer, electric through the ice.

1. Loch Awe — 307 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
2. Loch Ness — 754 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
3. Loch Lomond — 623 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
4. Loch Shin — 162 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
5. Loch Shiel — 420 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
6. Loch Ericht — 512 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
7. Loch Tay — 508 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
8. Loch Maree — 367 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
9. Loch Lochy — 531 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
10. Loch Quoich — 281 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
11. Loch Ken or River Dee — 62 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
12. Loch Arkaig — 359 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
13. Loch Morar — 1017 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
14. Loch Katrine — 495 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
15. Windermere — 210 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
16. Loch Langabhat or Loch Langavat — 98 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
17. Ullswater — 205 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
18. Loch Laggan — 174 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
19. Loch Rannoch — 440 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
20. Fionn Loch or Dubh Loch — 144 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
21. Kielder Water — 171 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
22. Loch Monar — 260 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
23. Loch Laidon — 128 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
24. Loch Fannich — 282 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char
25. Loch Assynt — 282 ft max · Northern Pike, European Perch, Brown Trout, Arctic Char

…plus 474 more United Kingdom waters holding arctic char.

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When to fish arctic char in United Kingdom

• Spring 4–15 ft — The weeks after ice-out are the year's best shallow shot — small spoons along the drop.
• Summer 20–60 ft — Char follow the cold down — vertical jig small spoons and tubes over the deepest basins.
• Fall 8–30 ft — Fall brings them back to gravel shoals in spawning color — the prettiest fish of the year.
• Winter 10–40 ft — A premier ice target — char roam under the ice and hit small jigging spoons hard.

Also in United Kingdom: best northern pike lakes · best european perch lakes · best brown trout lakes

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