Season 2012
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Not Long till 2013 Season Starts.
2013 River Spey Salmon Fishing Season Opens. Speyside, February 2013: At 9 A.M. on Monday the 11th February, the opening ceremony for the…
End of year report (2012)
The 2012 catch for the river was 7,490 salmon and grilse caught, as well as 1,680 sea trout. Spey Fishery Board’s voluntary Catch and Release…
Week Commencing 24th September.
Well TGIF, no not thank God it’s Friday but rather thank God it’s finished at last the 2012 season has come to an end. I do not have the figures…
Week Commencing 17th September
As we enter the last week of the season guess what, the forecast for next week is rain, heavy at the start of the week, pretty much what is has been…
Week Commencing 10th September
Well it is mid September already, just a couple more weeks to go and this season will be over, and writing reports when the river is not at its best…
Week Commencing 3rd September
The start of the week was very windy which did not help casting and Saturday was warm bright and windy which I never like whilst salmon fishing but…
Week Commencing 26th August.
The river remained unsettled last week which although maybe not helping the fishing it at least moved the fish around allowing the middle river beats…
Week Commencing 20th August.
It has been another difficult week the river levels remained unsteady and on Saturday the lower beats were virtually unfishable due to the turbidity.…
Week Commencing 13th August.
It was a difficult week on Speyside, the river was unsteady which puts the fish off the take and there was a pollution incident on Wednesday night…
Week Commencing 6th August.
Heavy rain on Sunday night early Monday Morning above Spey Dam caused the start of the week to be hard going. The river turned to the colour of milky…
Week Commencing July 30th 2012.
The weather forecast for the coming week does not have much rain, shock horror! The start of the week is overcast, with temperatures starting around…
Week Commencing 23rd July 2012
The forecast was not really accurate last week there was some rain but maybe not as much as forecast. The river has fallen to about 6” over…
Week Commencing 16th July 2012
Again another wet week on Speyside Wednesday was particularly wet and the river rose accordingly on Thursday. Next week is more of the same, wet on…
Week Commencing 9th July 2012
Weather forecasting this year is getting easy, it will be wet, the only difficulty is predicting how wet. Last week it was very wet on Tuesday making…
Short report for week Commencing 2nd July 2012.
Sorry for the delay in this week’s report but I have been away at the British Grand Prix, the rain caused a great deal of chaos. The river appears…
Week Commencing 28th June.
It has been another week of the haves and the have nots. The bottom beats continue to fish reasonably well whilst the middle to upper beats seem to…
Week Commencing 18th June 2012
It has been a wet few days and the river is big and coloured, as I write this report it is still raining and the river is sitting at about 5 feet.…
Week Commencing June 11th
The peculiar weather has continued, this last week was not much like the middle of June, temperatures struggled to reach the mid teens and most days…
Week Commencing 4th June 2012
As some of the more observant of you will have noticed the website has changed, not only at the front but also at the back so I hope this report…
Week Commencing 28th May 2012
It has been a difficult week on Speyside. As many of you will have heard or seen on the news early in the week one fish was confirmed with UDN. I…
Week Commencing 21st May 2012
It has been a funny year, and a very funny month, the temperatures for the first two weeks were very much colder than average, this last week very…
Week Commencing 14th May 2012
Looking at the forecast for the coming week May has at last arrived, it is to be hot and sunny all week. Now just to add a cautious note there is…
Week Commencing 7th May 2012
It has been a funny sort of year, the months of May and March seem to have been swapped over, this week we had rain, snow and hail again certainly…
Week Commencing 30th April 2012
It has been another difficult week on Speyside unless you were fishing at the bottom of the river. Weather wise we have had at least three of the…
Week Commencing 23rd April 2012
Well it was a week dominated by the weather, it rained, hailed and snowed. Angling was effectively restricted to Monday, Tuesday and Saturday,…
Week Commencing 16th April 2012
It has been another hard week on Speyside, most beats managed to catch some salmon but it was not an easy week. With the snowless winter I remember a…
Week Commencing 9th April 2012
It has been a difficult week on Speyside, there has been a number of fish caught but it has been hard work, they are not giving themselves up easily.…
Week Commencing 2nd April 2012
Keith Macdonald 1957-2012. Before I start my usual weekly ramblings I would like to take a minute to reflect on the death of Mr Keith Macdonald,…
Week Commencing 26th March 2012
It is a cold start to the week more like Spring on Speyside than the last couple of weeks. There is some heavy rain forecast for tonight with some…
Week Commencing 19th March 2012
The strange spring continues temperatures continue in the high teens for the start of the week, perhaps getting a little cooler towards the end of…
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