Salmon Fishing Scotland Pheasant Hunting in Highland Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Pheasant Hunting in Highland Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

Video of driven Pheasant shooting at Logiealmond, Perthshire, Scotland. This is the flush point of the Logie drive on the Logiealmond Pheasant shoot.


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Salmon Fishing Scotland Pheasant Hunting in Highland Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Pheasant Hunting in Highland Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

These pictures were taken on a late autumn day in glorious sunshine on the Logiealmond shoot in Perthshire, Scotland.

First drive of the day. The Long bank driving Pheasants over the banks of the river Almond.

The flush point of the Long bank.

The view of Perthshire from the Chapelhill hall looking over to Fife on a clear day.

A game crop at the start of the Drumharrow drive that can last for an hour and a half.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn on the river Tay November 2009.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn on the river Tay November 2009.

A glorious day of late autumn sunshine on the river Tay in Perthshire, Scotland.

After a heavy frost the harr lifts up off the river on the lower Tay just below Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland. If you click on the picture you can enlarge it and see a balloon flying over Benchil.

The upper beat at Taymount or Stobhall looking up past Willies Stone towards Ballathie and Cargill.

Finford Head on the lower Taymount or Stobhall beat of the Tay.

Looking up the Red rocks on the lower Taymount and Stobhall beats just above Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn in Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn in Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

These are some pictures i took the other day showing Perthshire, Scotland in Autumn coulors.

This is the bottom Taymount or Stobhall beat just above Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland on the Tay at Tams Corner in late afternoon sunshine.

Stobhall Castle from the Taymount bank of the river Tay.

Linn Pool as the sun goes down just above Burnmouth at Stanley.

Last light at Stanley Mills at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

Horsey pool on the Tay on the Pitlochrie beat as the sun goes down on a frosty evening.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumnwatch Salmon at the Almondbank Hatchery.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumnwatch Salmon at the Almondbank Hatchery.

Recently there was coverage of the Almondbank Hatchery on the BBC Autumnwatch program and in case you missed this is the link to it. There is footage of the government hatchery on salmon research and salmon in the Almond, Perthshire, Scotland.

A hen salmon being stripped in the government research hatchery.

Salmon in the hatchery.

The salmon eggs being fertilized.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Spawning Atlantic Salmon in Scotland.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Spawning Atlantic Salmon in Scotland.

Tonight the Autumnwatch team cover spawning salmon on the Tay area and visit the Almondbank hatchery. The program is on BBC 2 at 8.30pm. If you miss it I will post a link to it on the blog later.
I have lifted this of the Autumnwatch web site for your interest.

This autumn Simon King visits the River Tay in Scotland to investigate the lives of the spawning Atlantic salmon.



More about Atlantic Salmon.
The Atlantic salmon is a muscular fish with silvery colouration and black spots. They have a small fatty dorsal fin and a tail fin and can be up to about 150cm long and weigh over 20kg, although this is rare. The mouth extends to below the eye or beyond. In males during the breeding season the lower jaw develops a hook shape for fighting. Adults also take on a reddish colour around this time.

Atlantic salmon are anadromous which means that they migrate from the sea to fresh water to spawn. The juveniles feed on aquatic insects and invertebrates in freshwater. When they migrate to the sea they start to feed on crustaceans and fish.

Salmon eggs are fertilised externally by the males. The female will dig a pit in the gravel (known as a redd) on the riverbed in which she deposits up to 900 eggs. A male will immediately follow and fertilise them before she covers them over using her tail. About 90-95% of the salmon will die after their first spawning but some are known to spawn several times, returning to the ocean to feed between spawnings.

The salmon are thought to spawn during conditions of appropriate temperature and daylight and so spawning varies in time between rivers. Most spawning occurs between November and December but some larger rivers have been known to host spawning salmon from October through to February.

Around 50% of Atlantic salmon populations in the UK are at risk due to a lack of pristine river systems, migration obstacles such as dams, fishing and climate changes affecting their biology.


Where & when to see them

* Atlantic salmon visit British rivers to spawn between autumn and winter.
* They are found only in the most pristine rivers. In the UK they are seen most prominently in Ireland and Scotland.
* The salmon tend to return to the rivers in which they were born to spawn.



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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn on the Tay at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn on the Tay at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland November 2009.

The leaves are disappearing off the trees now with weather changing. I managed to capture these photos in last light the other night.

The view up towards Stanley Mills on the Tay at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

Looking over the Horsey pool on the Pitlochrie beat at Stanley.

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