Fishing Reports: 2013

To paraphrase school reports of former years “could have been better”, and judging by reports from other rivers “could have been a lot worse.   The Spey Fishery Board has reported catches of Salmon and…

Well that is it, all over, finished, I do not think there will be many who are sorry to see the end of 2013. The river stubbornly remained low from mid-summer through to the end.…

I am sorry this week's report is late but Word press seemed to have some issues and I could not gain access to the web site. Let me begin by congratulating Euan and Tracy Reid…

Another week of low water, the river rose a few inches on Saturday morning but soon settled back. It has started to rain today and some of the showers have been heavy, some of the…

Another week of little water on Speyside but I see the river has kicked up a little last night and is now around the plus one-inch level. The forecast for the coming week is a…

Well September has arrived so I am in the last month of reporting this year, by the time this time of year arrives I feel as if I am repeating myself most weeks, and you…

For those who have not read the works of John Ashley Cooper the Queen of Scottish rivers is the Lochy, I was asked today how I got on the Dee! Strangely the Spey and the…

It has been a showery week on Speyside, but the river has stubbornly remained low. The weather people keep promising lots of rain but I have yet to see any quantities, sometimes the showers have…

Another week of low water, the heavy showers during the week had little effect on the water levels but caused a little turbidity on Wednesday evening below the Fiddich. The forecast for the coming week…

Sorry for the delay in putting up the weekly report but for some reason I was unable to log in last night the mysteries of the world wide web.  Well last Sunday’s torrential downpour did…