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Overview

Cargill is one of the best known and one of the most productive beats on the Tay. The beat is subdivided into two double bank beats, Upper and Lower, which anglers fish on alternate days. Cargill alternates with Ballathie. 

In 2024 Cargill anglers will fish 

The Upper Beat on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday

The Lower Beat on  Monday, Wednesday and Friday

Week 1 to week 11 there will be one Ghillie on the beat. 

Week 12 onwards you will be accompanied by two Ghillies. 

There are two boats and a well appointed fishing hut on each beat with heating, hot and cold running water, cooking facilities and WC. 

Fly Fishing Tuition. Salmon fishing packages are available for those wishing to try salmon fishing, to the more experienced angler wanting technical help and intensive tuition through a full programme of learning to Speycast and how to fish for salmon with double handed rods.

The character of the Cargill starts on the upper beat with the Bridge Stream, this is ideal for fly fishing, a long stream which can be fished in almost any height of water. As there is deep water close in this stretch is easy to fish. Moving down the beat the water flattens out and flows over what might be best described as a shelf of sandstone rock which runs for nearly half a mile. This is highly deceptive though because under the apparently placid surface strong tongues of flow have worn deep holes in to the ledges of rock producing some of the most attractive lies for salmon on the Tay. Especially in lower water conditions salmon pack into this water and can be quite easily fished for by spinning or fly. Pools with such evocative names as the Pot Shot, Rumbling Stone, Cobble Croy, Clocksden and the Cradle have produced some of the greatest catches on the Tay.

If the water is low good catches can be made at all times of the year. 

Cargill adopts the Tay District Salmon Fishery Board Conservation Measures and anglers are reminded to follow these at all times. 

For a comprehensive list of places to stay whilst in the Perthshire visit Where to Stay section on FishTay


Banks
Double
Max rods/permits
6
Ghillies
2
5 year average
311

Catches

Atlantic salmon

Last 7 days: 1 (Largest: 6lbs)
'19 '20 '21 '22 '23 Avg '24
Jan 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Feb 1 0 0 0 0 0.2 1
Mar 8 2 9 2 2 4.6 5
Apr 23 0 16 10 4 10.6 2
May 14 1 3 3 8 5.8 0
Jun 13 45 15 29 24 25.2 0
Jul 25 47 19 51 50 38.4 0
Aug 45 55 74 63 56 58.6 0
Sep 52 62 74 165 116 93.8 0
Oct 54 68 100 102 45 73.8 0
Nov 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Dec 0 0 0 0 0 0 0
Total 235 280 310 425 305 311 8

Reviews

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Before this day I had only been ver caught one salmon and with the help of myself and my brothers ghillie we both managed to catch 3 salmon between us and both even managed to beat our pb could not be happier with the way the whole day went will be back there asap loved every minute of the experience

StephenC
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