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River/area	Starting extract	Last updated
Don	July 19th River Update It's been a mixed bag of weather over the past few weeks but despite some heavy showers falling over the catchment river levels remain at summer lows. In contrast fishing conditions over the past few days has been testing .... read more	Wednesday 19th Jul
Tyne	The Tyne is enjoying another good early run of fish this year and rods have been catching some quality Summer salmon and sea trout. There was a record June count by the EA at Riding Mill and rises in water over the past fortnight have encouraged .... read more	Tuesday 18th Jul
Findhorn	Ian Neale reports from Altyre Estate for week ending July 15th as follows : River levels were running at a reasonable fishing height for the start of the week. On Monday morning, Leslie Tyson managed to hook and release a lovely sea liced grilse .... read more	Monday 17th Jul
Dee	We enjoyed another good week on the river with some lovely fish being caught. There are some grilse being caught, but we are still waiting for them to appear in larger numbers. There is a drop of rain in the forecast, so will be looking to see what .... read more	Monday 17th Jul
Hebrides	Due to work commitments and annual leave this report covers W/B June 19 - W/E July 15: The W/E June 24 saw the Garynahine River being lightly fished, however 7 grilse were recorded but fish were regularly following flies and taking short. B. .... read more	Monday 17th Jul
Tweed	River Tweed River Report Week Ending 15th July The week began with the river settling in with the levels holding steady for a couple of days then after a 1.5” rise on Tuesday night the river dropped rather quickly, with 3 inches coming off it .... read more	Monday 17th Jul
Spey	Catches, things are a little quiet but this is not unexpected and the grilse runs are in decline. Gordon Castle finished with 45 for the week. There was a Pacific Pink salmon caught from the Association water. Thanks to Ian tenant and his team for .... read more	Sunday 16th Jul
Cumbria	A six foot rise to start July, there were a few fish caught above Carlisle as the water dropped up to fourteen pounds, this was then followed by a three foot coloured rise on the 5th. A fairly dry forecast for the next few days should let the water .... read more	Saturday 15th Jul
Towy	17/5/2017 At last some rain! The Towy has risen and is running coloured and fast. Weather forecast for the next five days.Fairly dry and bright until Sunday with intermittent showers which should keep the river lively. Rain again on Monday. .... read more	Thursday 13th Jul
Tay	Salmon fishing on the Tay in Perthshire has seen out June with improving conditions for fishing in milder weather and settling lower water levels until recently as more water has arrived plus catches are improving after a slow start to the season .... read more	Tuesday 11th Jul
Nith	9th July - Friars Carse Hotel beat. Just spoken to my son Mat who spent all day yesterday and last night fishing the beat and he tells me there were plenty of trout and grayling showing and the odd salmon crashed out but no takers until he fished at .... read more	Sunday 9th Jul
Border Esk	To be frank, the river is is the best order for many years. After the lift on Tuesday the river is holding good numbers of seatrout and also a very good chance of a salmon. With the river and forecast settled for the next few days, it is .... read more	Friday 7th Jul
Beauly	Lower Beauly Conditions so far this year have been challenging. There were several weeks of very low water during late May and early June that made fishing fairly difficult. Despite this the number of fish caught to date is fairly even with the .... read more	Monday 26th Jun
Ayrshire	We finally got some proper rain overnight on the 5th of June after an extremely dry April and May. With river levels well up on the 6th of June it wasn't going to be long before we were hearing of fish being landed. The Stinchar reported their .... read more	Friday 23rd Jun
Annan	Last week (commencing 12th June) saw the river fall back nicely after considerable flooding the previous week. The middle river was sitting at just over two feet on the Monday morning so spinning was the best way to cover the water. Newbie and .... read more	Monday 19th Jun
Esks	6th June and I am just back in from the banks of the South Esk and the river is in a small spate. Many of the best beats have not seen a line cast in eight weeks and the word of a fish taken was something of a miracle. Well our wait is surely .... read more	Wednesday 7th Jun
Ness	May has been a very very hot and dry month. The rivers Morrison and Garry has not had any real water since Feb/March and as a result have not really been fishing well. Fish have been picked up by anglers local to these rivers when the conditions .... read more	Monday 5th Jun
Lochaber	Water height – 2-4in Water temp – 54-57F Overheads = cloud with some sun and occasional rain showers It's fair to say the rain never came to much within the Lochy catchment. Some heavy showers added an inch or 2 to the levels, but this .... read more	Sunday 4th Jun
Galloway	After a very dry initial two weeks in May, we finally had some heavy rain on Monday 15th which brought river levels up to over 4 ft on the Cree and 5 ft on the Bladnoch. This paid dividends for getting smolts on the move, being the first .... read more	Wednesday 31st May