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River/area	Starting extract	Last updated
West Coast	River Lochy Report 2013 - This week should have finished with a better result! Whether it was bad luck, the mood of the fish or both, the % of fish hooked to landed was very poor. With the river only lightly fished (2-4 rods at times) over a dozen .... read more	Sunday 19th May
Towy	12lb sewin caught and released on the Lower Towy fish reported to be moving .... read more	Saturday 18th May
Tyne	There have been a number of fresh salmon catches reported from the North and South Tynes with some decent numbers of fish near Hexham. On the Tyne W. Kluge caught a fresh 15 pounder on fly and Danny Holmes landed a 20lb fish both fish coming .... read more	Friday 17th May
Border Esk	W/C 13 May 2013 Good fishing conditions all week. River ran at a nice level with a good number of anglers at various .... read more	Friday 17th May
Bann	This week there is good news and bad news. The good news first. I cannot see in the foreseeable future having any type of hose-pipe ban imposed on us, and the bad news is if you do not know it already, this rain has flooded us out yet again. One .... read more	Thursday 16th May
Hebrides	During Monday, May 6th, Dickon Green landed and returned the first sea trout of the season from the Fhorsa Fishery. The fish was hooked on a small silver stoat's tail in the Bruton Stream.Three local anglers; Robbie Bell, Walter Duncan and .... read more	Wednesday 15th May
Eden	A few salmon bearing sea lice are coming to the fly from the Carlisle area and as far upstream to Lazonby this week. There have been very strong north westerly winds persisting until the 29th; the trout fishing is sporadic with these conditions. The .... read more	Wednesday 15th May
Esks	The rivers are in ideal condition as evidenced by the good catches on some beats . Fresh fish were seen in most beats. Salmon were beginning to show in the middle South Esk beats and we hope there is more to come. Another good week with salmon .... read more	Wednesday 15th May
Dee	The River Dee saw a lot of anglers fishing the length of the catchment looking for the elusive salmon with catches reported from Ardoe to Abergeldie. If you were in the right place at the right time there were some fish to be caught. FishDee beats .... read more	Tuesday 14th May
Tay	The conditions last week were good on the Tay in Perthshire, Scotland with much milder weather and a falling river after heavy rain caused a large spate on the previous Saturday, superb catches were maintained during the week filling everyone with .... read more	Monday 13th May
Spey	Yet another frustrating week in terms of the middle part of the river Spey. Following the previous week of mild weather and prolonged rain, the river level remained relatively high for the first part of last week, however by yesterday, it was an .... read more	Monday 13th May
Tweed	FishTweed saw 45 salmon and 7 sea trout reported to Gillieline for the week. Landed in the area from Tweedhill through to Boleside, Sprouston had the best? of the limited sport with 6 for the week. The four beats of Ladykirk, Sprouston, Upper .... read more	Monday 13th May
Findhorn	After some very good fishing on the lower river from mid April to early may, with some very big fish in the 30 to 40 lb class, things have slowed up a bit this week on the middle and upper river, but a number of fish showing up below the .... read more	Sunday 12th May
Nith	The river settled down after the surge of water and by the end of April Sea Trout had been seen and caught up to the Thornhill area. Dalswinton had 2 Salmon at 8lbs and 18lbs along with Sea Trout to 3lbs. This has been the size of fish landed at .... read more	Thursday 9th May
Annan	The trout fishing over the past few weeks has been very difficult with only sparse hatches on most days and not too many fish rising to them. The hatches have been a little inconsistent for most of the early season now which is partly due to the .... read more	Thursday 9th May
Don	Latest angling report 8th May The river levels fell back and ran clear for the week until last Friday when heavy rain fell over the upper and middle catchment bringing a 4inch rise on Saturday. Now into May the Don is still running at a great .... read more	Wednesday 8th May
Beauly	Lower BeaulyWeek 10 - A quieter week with only 3 fish caught, in part a result of rods not being fully utilised, but also a reflection of the water heights which fluctuated during each day.Week - 11 An encouraging week with 11 salmon .... read more	Tuesday 7th May
Iceland	Trout Anglers Pick Up Where They Left OffThe 2013 season is now well and truly underway as the trout season here in Iceland had a very strong and encouraging start, picking up where it left off last year. In fact early April gave rise to some .... read more	Thursday 2nd May
Argyll	With April now over and the one of the coldest winters for a long time salmon are now appearing in Loch Awe through the fish counter. Hopefully with wet weather this weekend and warmer weather on its way this should start to bring the salmon into .... read more	Thursday 2nd May
Ayrshire	Water levels on the River Ayr were subject to a rise on Thursday which appeared to encourage some fish to move upstream and some fresh fish to enter the system. Early on Friday I received reports from Mauchline that four spring fish had been landed .... read more	Tuesday 30th Apr
Ness	W/E Saturday 20th AprilUp to last Saturday, April 13th low water conditions were still the norm. The River Ness and the Loch were the only fisheries to produce salmon. I do not get notified of all the catches but there must now be 30 off the .... read more	Tuesday 23rd Apr
Galloway	Despite a vast covering of snow that fell across Galloway during the weekend of the 22nd March (producing complete chaos on the roads), river levels failed to rise as had been expected because of a gradual rather than sudden melt that ensued the .... read more	Friday 5th Apr
Tamar	The Tamar salmon season runs from March 1st to October 14th. The trout and sea trout season runs from 15th March to 30th September. Grayling fishing runs from 16th June to 14th March. As always, we would be delighted to hear from any anglers .... read more	Monday 11th Feb