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River/areaStarting extractLast updated
Cumbria River Eden April 2018. 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 last .... read moreFriday
22nd Jun
Annan Pleased to report that we have received a significant rise in water which should help to clear the system out and encourage the first good run of salmon from the estuary. Middle and lower river beats should be fishable by Friday, although Hoddom and .... read moreWednesday
20th 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
Tay The Tay, Perthshire is now well into June for salmon fishing with disappointing results in recent weeks and now with a far warmer forecast and even some rain. Expectation is still optimistic on the river for 2018 after a string of better weeks .... read moreTuesday
19th Jun
Findhorn Sun 17th June Altyre River levels remained very low for the start of the week with very few fish seen running through the lower river beats and therefore fishing was slow going everywhere! However, we finally saw some rain falling over the river .... read moreMonday
18th Jun
Dee We had a bit of a break with conditions last week and enjoyed an upturn in catches. A small rise in water levels and much better cloud cover helped matters greatly. I am still keen on a proper spate, but there are different views among the ghillies .... read moreMonday
18th Jun
Lochaber Water height – 0in – 2ft + water temp – 58C I am currently travelling back from a hard trip to Norway so I will make this quite brief. In short, the Lochy is back on form. The rains finally came, the river rose and the salmon were .... read moreMonday
18th Jun
Spey Catches. Catches have picked up a little, not before time! Fochabers Angling Association, Andrew Milne wrote, Last week was a good week on the association water considering the conditions. Monday 11th, visitor Ronnie Fraser had a 10lb .... read moreSunday
17th Jun
Tweed River Tweed River Report Week Ending 16th June Another week with quite unsettled water conditions with a small rise on Wednesday night into Thursday making the river dirty and this kept a black tinge to the river for the rest of the week. .... read moreSunday
17th Jun
Tyne A lift of water from both the South and North Tynes in early June, (both very coloured initially), saw a run of fish enter the river and another smaller lift on the 11th saw another smaller run but levels have been low in general and tough .... read moreFriday
15th Jun
Border Esk With a lift in water at the weekend, and more anglers have been out in the evenings, the seatrout catches have slowly started to pick up. I am hearing that there are good numbers of seatrout in the river from Langholm downstream and some good 4-6lb .... read moreTuesday
12th Jun
Esks NORTH AND SOUTH ESK REPORTS FOR THE WEEK COMMENCING 21-5-18 Both rivers started the week with very low flow levels which went even lower as the week progressed. Also as the week progressed, the weather went from sunny and slightly overcast to .... read moreTuesday
5th Jun
Nith 30th May - Friars Carse Beat. Latest info i have from the beat is that there are a good number of sea trout in the system with John Cameron again doing well he had four last night to 3 lbs dropped 6 more. Salmon have been showing in the Island .... read moreThursday
31st May
Hebrides The first Spring salmon of the 2018 Outer Hebrides season was recorded on Friday, May 4th. Paul Hopper, fishing a size 6 Tosh hooked and released a 9lb sea-liced fish in the Kelt Pool on the Grimersta River. Paul also hooked a second salmon in .... read moreFriday
11th May
Bann A season report will follow once 2018 season gets under .... read moreFriday
27th Apr
Beauly Lower Beauly A slow start to the season. The first and only salmon to date was caught by a member of the Holt party on 12 April; a 15 pounder. Sea trout catches were good for the first two weeks (14 to the Syndicate rods to date), though .... read moreMonday
23rd Apr
Yorkshire Opening Week!!!! Wow what a week to say the river has only been fishable for half of it! Philip Ellis ( Yorkshire Salmon Guide ) caught the first fish of the season, then the second, then the third!!!! 12lbs 17lbs and 9lbs. All fresh as paint! .... read moreFriday
13th Apr
Towy Weather has bee n changeable but a good weekend forecast. Some nice brown trout to 2lb caught on the lower water and some reports of early run salmon lower down the Towy. Sunny weather predicted for next week. Make a change from this cold, wet and .... read moreThursday
12th Apr
Firth of Forth Fishing Report 16 February - 11th April We are now into the 10th full week of the season and we have some fish in the book! There has been 7 fish from the Teith and the 1st fish from the Forth was caught on 3rd April. There is now some sea trout .... read moreWednesday
11th Apr
Iceland Reports will start shortly Tight lines, Jon .... read moreThursday
5th Apr