The Oban and Lorn Angling Club was founded in the 1940's but fell away in the fifties. In 1972 the club was reformed by a group of keen anglers to promote fly-fishing links in the Lorn of Argyll with the leases of seven lochs.

Today the club has leases to twenty-four lochs and nine boats on seven lochs with a further access to one side of the River Awe below the weir on the Taynuilt side.

Our lochs vary from small puddles to large waters each having its own features
containing mainly wild Brown Trout though there is a chance of catching an Artic
Char in some of the lochs also escaped Rainbow Trout, Perch and Pike in Loch Awe.
All the wild trout respond to the traditional fly patterns.
Outboards to a maximum of 5hp allowed on most of the lochs.

The membership of the club stands at around 60 to 70 members with a further 13
Irish members who visit every year from Rathdrum, County Wicklow, having a
day's inter club competition which they usually win! Also we have an inter club home and away with Lochgilphead Angling Club.

There is a junior section in the club, usually the young start with the bubble and worm and then on to the bubble and fly being encouraged to take up fly fishing and fly tying with a fun day outing arranged for the very young every year.

Our club house has a meeting room and workshop which is used to repair the
boats in the offseason with a further compound for storing the boats and trailers.
We are always looking for members to help out with the repairs and upkeep of
the club house and boats.

A full turn-out of the membership of the original Oban Angling Club (1949)
for an outing to Loch Ba', Glencoe.
Note the collar and ties and the " screw top".
L to R :- Alec Binnie, Willie Allan, Donald Maule,
Alan Me Killop & John Cameron (Maxton & White )

The Oban and Lorn Angling Club is Affiliated to:
The Federation of Highland Angling Clubs and Associations
Scottish Anglers National Association