Reports

This week so far

See each day's largest fish and individual beat catches on our Latest catches page which is updated each time a ghillie uses our automatic telephone reporting system.

Last week

Last updated: Monday 19th July

Once again the start of the week was fine with an unexpected rise of water last Monday morning, and this set the pattern for the rest of the week with the river level rising and falling.

Thankfully none of the rises were enough to affect the fishing and a good week was had by most beats.

On the beats that report on FishSpey - and I wish more would do so - Craigellachie reported 33 salmon largest of those at 14lbs and 2 sea trout, Abernethy AA reported one salmon and 11 sea trout, including one reported at 5lbsĀ and Kinchurdy had five salmon and 2 sea troutĀ 

I would really like to hear of your angling successes and share these with our readers, so please write to me with your news and pictures to info@fishspey.co.uk

Tight lines.



Beat catches reported
(week ending 28th August)
SALMON & GRILSE: Craigellachie 15.
Total: 15 Largest: Craigellachie 17lbs
SEA TROUT: Craigellachie 1, Kinchurdy 1.
Total: 2 Largest: Craigellachie & Kinchurdy 3lbs
TROUT: None reported


River Spey



River Spey



River Spey

This lump of ice, estimated to be 60 x 20 yards took an hour to break off on Saturday 27th February 2010. Evidently it was quite a spectacular sight as it hit the stream below Pol Ma Cree - fortunately no-one was fishing below!



Catch & release policy

Salmon
  • Each angler must return the 1st, 3rd, 5th, etc, fish caught.
  • All hen salmon and hen grilse must be released.
  • Throughout the season all stale or gravid fish must be released.
  • Escaped farmed salmon must be retained.
Sea trout
  • Finnock: Release all fish of 16oz/35 cm/14" or less.
  • Sea trout: Release all fish of 3lb/50 cm/20" or more.
  • Bag limit: One sea trout of takeable size per calendar day.
  • Anglers are also encouraged to release their first fish and take the second of takeable size.
  • Unseasonable fish: Realease all unseasonable fish.

Season review

A review will be added in due course.