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Firth of Forth Fishing Report 6th August - 11th August This week has proved a lot harder to get the fish to engage than previous weeks, though there seemed to be a good head of fish in the system. 4 fish were reported to us with the largest being around 6LB. .... read moreTuesday
14th Aug
Towy Rain continues to fall in our area and conditions are perfect for sewin and obviously salmon. Local member Steve Manning caught a splendid Salmon on Sunday. The fish weighed in at 9lb 7oz, and took half an hour to land and was successfully .... read moreTuesday
14th Aug
Tay The Tay, Perthshire is now in August for salmon fishing with encouraging results in recent weeks due some rain and cooler weather conditions in our current outstanding summer. The hot weather had been making life extremely difficult with water .... read moreMonday
13th Aug
Findhorn Lethen Week ending 5th August At the end of the previous week large numbers of fish were reported in the Association water waiting to run. The rain on Saturday lead to a 5" rise early Sunday morning which provided some hope for the week ahead, .... read moreMonday
13th Aug
Dee We toiled with low water conditions yet again. Nonetheless, the river produced eighty-four salmon and grilse. We would probably have doubled that with a decent water level. Where is that spate I have been obsessing about for months? I am nearly out .... read moreMonday
13th Aug
Hebrides .... read moreMonday
13th Aug
Spey Catches, Gordon Castle finished with close to forty for the week, a mixture of grilse but with a smattering of salmon. Beat 5 had a 17lb fish on Saturday. Delfur were again into double figures, including two "first fish" Neil Boathwick .... read moreMonday
13th Aug
Nith Friars Carse Report - was up on the beat last week just as the river was starting to fall back after the small lift so expectations were high. A few anglers were out and fish were seen down in Policemans, Island, Marsdens, House Pool & clearly .... read moreFriday
10th Aug
Beauly .... read moreWednesday
8th Aug
Ness With a consistent water level coming off Loch Ness, the river is bucking the trend by a, fishing and b, producing fish. As the majority of rivers are so low on water, they have become almost too low to fish. The river and beats offer a great .... read moreTuesday
7th Aug
Tyne The EA reported 7,966 upstream counts for the month of July. Recent catches on the main river have improved over the last week with a little bit of fresh water and lots of fish seen on the main river. On some days better catches were made with .... read moreTuesday
7th Aug
Tweed River Tweed River Report Week Ending 4th August Finally a slight change in the conditions and a couple of small lifts along with some cloud cover seems to have made a bit of difference and some nice fresh fish entered the river. Some good .... read moreSunday
5th Aug
Annan July can only be described as woeful from an angler's point of view. There was no rainfall from the last week of June until July 27th. Low water and high temperatures are not conducive to productive fishing and most anglers took the opportunity to .... read moreFriday
3rd Aug
Kyle of Sutherland After almost 3 months of next to no rain, above average temperatures, almost dangerous water temperatures to river life. IT FINALLY RAINED!!!! Fish has been bouncing around many river mouths, ebbing in and out on tides and this is not only for .... read moreWednesday
1st Aug
Border Esk After almost 3 months of next to no rain, above average temperatures, almost dangerous water temperatures to river life. IT FINALLY RAINED!!!! Fish has been bouncing around many river mouths, ebbing in and out on tides and this is not only for .... read moreWednesday
1st Aug
Banff and Buchan After almost 3 months of next to no rain, above average temperatures, almost dangerous water temperatures to river life. IT FINALLY RAINED!!!! Fish has been bouncing around many river mouths, ebbing in and out on tides and this is not only for .... read moreWednesday
1st Aug
Argyll After almost 3 months of next to no rain, above average temperatures, almost dangerous water temperatures to river life. IT FINALLY RAINED!!!! Fish has been bouncing around many river mouths, ebbing in and out on tides and this is not only for .... read moreWednesday
1st Aug
Cumbria River Eden 2018. April. It has been a strange month weather-wise so far, it has been a quite cool and wet period. The hatches of dark olive have been sporadic all throughout April, lasting just minutes each time. The grannom have started the .... read moreSunday
29th Jul
Yorkshire With an on going drought fishing is becoming difficult on many of the Yorkshire rivers. Trout fishing remains Ok in parts and the general cooling will help all fish species. Salmon fishing is not worth the effort at present and the fish will be .... read moreThursday
12th Jul
Esks With the same weather pattern holding, the rivers are at an all time low. Salmon that were struggling at Gannochy managed to move though under the lift that comes last week, and with it came a few catches on the beats. Sadly it was not long .... read moreWednesday
27th Jun
Lochaber Water Height – 5in-1ft 9 Water Temp – 50-58F This was more like the spring fishing we have come to expect from the Lochy over the last few years. A total of 13 fish landed and another 8 lost and all but one were double figure salmon with an .... read moreMonday
25th Jun
Galloway Very little rain throughout May and June resulted in very low water flows and poor conditions for salmon fishing. Finally some rain towards the end of last week added some welcome fresh water to the rivers and burns and a small flood occurred. On .... read moreTuesday
19th Jun