Fishing boats .........

.... moored on Carron Valley Reservoir.

The 1,000-acre Strathcarron Reservoir, completed in 1939 is one of the most scenic trout fisheries in central Scotland. Situated high in the Campsie Fells twenty minutes from Stirling and half an hour from Glasgow, this scenic loch offers fly fishing for wild trout and for stocked trout.

Thriving on the rich feeding of the newly flooded strath and with easy access to its many excellent spawning and nursery streams, the "wild brownies" of Strathcarron Reservoir are numerous.

The Carron River rises in the Campsie Fells before flowing into the Carron Valley Reservoir. It passes by Denny, Larbert and Falkirk, and the villages of Carron and Carronshore before flowing into the Firth of Forth near Grangemouth.

The river is referred to in the Scots song "Lads O' the Fair":

For ye can see them a', the lads o' the fair
Lads frae the Forth an' the Carron Water
Workin' lads an' lads wi' gear
Lads that'll sell ye the provost's dochter
Sogers back frae the German Wars
Peddlers up frae the Border

I drove to Carron Reservoir, camera in hand, to find I had forgotten my SD Card!*!** This was taken with my Blackberry and doesn't do the beautiful scenery justice.