UK Fly Fishers 

 The river Allan is managed by the Allan Water Angling Association

The Association offers around 15miles of brown trout, sea trout, and salmon fishing much of which is double bank fishing.  Both daily and full annual membership permits are readily available. Full annual members may fish all the waters controlled by the Association

For angling purposes the river can best be considered in three parts. The more sedate waters  between Greenloaning and Ashfield,   the much more broken water from that point downstream to Dunblane, and the section through Bridge of Allan to the tidal waters. There is a wide variety of fishing available from the long slow pools of the upper river for the dry fly fisherman to  the faster streams of the lower river for the wet fly exponent. The Association offers around 15miles of brown trout, sea trout, and salmon fishing much of which is double bank fishing.  Both daily and full annual membership permits are readily available. Full annual members may fish all the waters controlled by the Association

The upper section at Greenloaning is right bank fishing only and is reserved for full annual members only.  The remainder of this upper section from Muckle Burn  downstream to the pumphouse streams at Ashfield is available to both full members and daily permit holders. This beat is primarily double bank fishing and offers a mixture of deep pools and gravel runs. The only named Salmon pool on this beat is Johnstones Hole downstream of Kinbuck and is seldom without a good fish to be seen. The river drops only 14 feet over the section and is much more meandering and sedate. It is also in this beat that migratory fish lie after negotiating Ashfield dam and there is the opportunity for sea trout and salmon for most of the year with salmon becoming more prolific as the season wears on. It is excellent dry fly water throughout its length yielding trout up to 3 pounds. Parking is limited and reaching the furthest  out parts of this beat is by foot only and is a fairly long walk. Walking however is fairly easy even for more elderly anglers.  

Fishing begins in the Ashfield to Dunblane section about 300 m downstream of Ashfield dam. The water from here until the river reaches a tidal section at Bridge of Allan is much more broken falling over a number of sandstone shelves and ledges forming distinct pools. There are a number of the named pools of which hold salmon and sea trout when water conditions are right. Keepers pool and Hawks Craig at Ashfield are always favourites and further downstream by Barbush Hole, Tumblers pool, Water Cut and Landslide pools all provide very attractive fishing.  The terrain is varied but for those willing to walk some distance there are good pools all the way down to Dunblane.  Access   is for the most part by foot only and   care needs to be taken on the narrow footpaths and steep banks and fishing can sometimes be challenging, but very worthwhile.