In message , Big Brownz
writes

Booked myself into http://www.fisheries.co.uk/whitesprings/index.htm
for four days of "away from work and the bird". Would have liked to
have found somewhere in the highlands, but after a frantic google I've
come to the opinion that coarse/carp fishing aint that popular in the
highlands.

More game fishing, I think. Lots of pike, but not much carp fishing.
There is Loch Ken, which is famous for roach, but it isn't near where
you are going.

History and climate, I'm afraid.

--
Steve Walker