Salmon Fishing Scotland Last Day Salmon Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Last Day Salmon Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

It was the last Salmon fishing day on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland but unfortunately the conditions were not ideal with a rising water from heavy rain especially in the west from the previous day, never the less every beat was out in force.

Jimmy McGregor plays a salmon on the Horsey pool on the Pitlochrie beat at Stanley from the boat.

A silver 7 pounds fish was landed which was savagely attacked by a seal. The fish was released hopefully to do its work for the future of the river.

Jimmy playing another salmon which came off close to landing.

Gordon McKenzie playing a good salmon in the afternoon which was very strong. After getting the fish under control and close to the bank it fell off. It was a very fresh salmon about 15 pounds but turned out to be the one that got away! Fresh salmon are still running the Tay.

The light fades on another Tay salmon fishing season. A full Tay report for the last three days will be posted tomorrow.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Salmon Fly Fishing on the Tay in Late October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Salmon Fly Fishing on the Tay in Late October 2012.

It was not such a nice autumn day on the Tay in Perthshire, Scotland but autumn salmon were still caught and on the fly which was heartening. There were also reports of runs of fresh salmon running the river with sea liced fish caught up on the middle beats.

Autumn scene at Benchil looking up to Stanley on the lower Tay.

Jimmy McGregor plays a salmon on the fly in the Long Shot at Benchil.

A coloured salmon was successfully landed.

Ally McKinnon with a good salmon caught fly fishing in the Todd Holes on the Benchil beat.

Ed Page with a 29 pounds monster from the famous Glendelvine beat at Murthly where Miss Georgina Ballantine caught her 64 pounds salmon.
Tomorrow is the last day of the 2012 salmon season on the Tay. Tight lines to all.


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Salmon Fishing Scotland Late Autumn Salmon Fishing on the Lower Tay October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Late Autumn Salmon Fishing on the Lower Tay October 2012.

The light is starting to go down on another Tay salmon fishing season and the images are spectacular.

The tail of Horsey on the Pitlochrie beat looking down to Benchil at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

As the light was fading this afternoon the fish became active and started taking. This was Allan Dallas playing a fish from the boat in Horsey.

Not long after he was into another good fish at the tail of the pool.

Last light over the Wash House at Stanley.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Late October Autumn Salmon Fishing on the Tay 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Late October Autumn Salmon Fishing on the Tay 2012.

The river Tay in Perthshire, Scotland has reached its last 3 days of the 2012 season.

Monday morning on the Tay at Stanley.

Ally McKinnon plays a salmon in the Horsey pool of the Pitlochrie beat from the boat.

A small autumn salmon was successfully landed.

Ally with another good salmon caught in Horsey. This time it was a fresh run 10 pounds male salmon.

Allan Dallas with a coloured salmon again from Horsey.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Salmon Fishing Report for the Week ending 27th October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Salmon Fishing Report for the Week ending 27th October 2012.

The catches were reasonable last week but hard earned again after the river fell away with no rainfall but some of the days on the river were spectacular with bright late sunshine giving us some memorable views of autumnal colours and some cracking fresh salmon were also caught. The weather is to remain settled this week for the last 3 days of the season with little or no rain giving us excellent prospects so we can maintain good sport as grilse and top quality salmon continue to run the river. The quality of salmon remained high with fish up to 26 pounds in weight, this was again encouraging and hopefully will continue.

The light is about to fade on another Tay Salmon fishing season on Wednesday.

Conditions were good but everyone had to work hard for success. River levels dropped throughout the week without any hydro influence for a change and excellent catches for the second week of the extension were maintained throughout the beats taking part. It must be mentioned that the Canoe Tay Decent caused mayhem for the river on Saturday but every effort will be made to sort this one for next year by the Tay Board. We all must get on together and the river benefits all types of activities but fishing and 500 craft coming down the river at the same time does not work! The water levels are still falling and fresh salmon continue to run the river, which is heartening.

Fresh fish were running hard through the river still at this late point as sea liced salmon were caught right up as far as the middle stretches. The water temperature has started to fall, which is expected at this time of year but not dramatically. Currently it is around 44 degrees Fahrenheit or 6.5 Celsius. The river will be settled for the start of the week and assuming the river remains settled this should give excellent prospects for sport. The quality was again exceptional with sea liced fish caught and more multi sea winter salmon landed. Salmon continue to be caught from top to bottom in the river with others caught and not registered meaning fish are running through rapidly and progressing upstream which encourages everyone.

The late autumn sunshine is giving us some spectacular scenery as the leaves turn on the trees so do not forget your cameras for those photo opportunities and not forgetting that memorable Tay salmon.

There were 275 salmon reported which was another good week for the river. Large salmon continue to be caught week on week and this week was no exception with several salmon weighing just over 20 pounds. The largest fish of the week was 26 pounds from Upper Redgorton. Salmon were landed throughout the system from the Lower River to the Upper River.

Beat catches reported
(week ending 27th October)
SALMON & GRILSE: Almondmouth 6, Waulkmill 4, Luncarty 1, Upper Redgorton 10, Fishponds 12, Benchil and Pitlochrie 16, Upper Scone 15, Catholes 2, Burnmouth 1, Stobhall 32, Taymount 36, Ballathie 35, Cargill 12, Islamouth 6, Lower and Upper Islamouth 20, Upper Islamouth and Meikleour House 5, Meikleour House 5, Kercock 18, Newtyle 15, Dunkeld House 5, Dalmarnock 8, Dalguise 10, Upper Aberuthven 1.
Total: 275 Largest: Upper Redgorton 26lbs
SEA TROUT: Taymount 2, Lower Aberuthven 8.
Total: 10 Largest: Lower Aberuthven 3lbs

On the Lower River 208 salmon were landed. All the lower beats are having reasonable success but having to work extremely hard using all sorts of methods to gain catches and this has been pretty much the case since September. The very lower beats have not been catching as many fish as earlier in the month due to the river coming up but are still producing catches.

The Fishponds and Upper Redgorton had good weeks catching a good few salmon that were by and large fresh run. Upper Redgorton yet again had the largest fish of the week, which weighed in at 26 pounds on Monday. Not content with that they promptly landed a 24 pounds fish the next day. Upper Scone and Stanley also had reasonable weeks landing just over 30 fish for the week. Fresh fish were caught on these beats as well. Stanley welcomed Ghillies from fellow big four rivers the Dee and Spey with Mark Melville having success on the fly. Interestingly on Friday it was a size 10 fly that proved effective despite river temperatures dropping away. On Saturday on Benchil

Terry Lynch landed his first ever salmon on the fly weighing 21 pounds from the long shot. Not a bad start for Terry, the spinning kit will be second choice now! On the Catholes regular visitors Bob Hunter and John Lessels landed salmon on Thursday. Stobhall and Taymount had excellent weeks again landing several fresh salmon. Ballathie had an excellent week with the lower water suiting them. Islamouth continued its excellent season and must have been one of the most productive beats on any river in Scotland.

The Middle River registered 56. This was another good week with all the beats reporting success. Kercock did well throughout the week landing several salmon of which fresh salmon featured heavily.

Jim Dickson and Mark Thomson were amongst the successful rods landing some cracking salmon. Newtyle had a reasonable week and landed sea liced salmon as well.

Successful rods included Jon Wood landing a cracking fish fly fishing the Boil, Malcolm Anderson, Calum McRoberts, Peter Dobson, Andy Kerr and Brandon Bryant.

Further upstream Dalmarnock also landed a few fish with fish up to 18 pounds.

The Upper River produced 10 salmon all from Dalguise, which was a good week.

The Earn registered 1 from the Aberuthven beats. Fresh fish are also running the Earn.

The Tay Conservation Dinner was held at the Dunkeld Hilton Hotel on Saturday 20th October with a good turn out raising valuable revenue for the Tay Board Hatchery. Over £20,000 was raised on the night and thank you all very much for taking part. Long Service awards went to Bill Sutherland of Baldarroch, John Tait of Upper Redgorton and Jimmy Last of the Waulkmill beat.

Celebrate a Tay salmon with a Dalmore Tay Dram and contribute to the future of this mighty river. Dalmore distillery have created a unique expression of their single malt whisky and a generous donation from each bottle sold will be gifted to the Tay Foundation to support their work to protect and improve the river.

Many thanks for all the pictures everyone is sending of salmon and thanks to all who have sent me their individual fishing experiences on the river. I would be most grateful if you would continue to do the same by emailing robert.salmonfishing@googlemail.com to be included in this report.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Salmon Fishing Prospects for week commencing 29th October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Salmon Fishing Prospects for week commencing 29th October 2012.

The river has settled back down to a low level after no rain and much colder weather this past week. Catches remained at a reasonable level despite less water making it an excellent week by and large on most beats however everyone continues to work hard to gain results. The extension period has now just 3 days to go and fresh fish have been reported on most beats right up into the middle river. Good water levels and a good forecast for the coming week continue to give us excellent prospects. The salmon run is steady. Hopefully we will see a good last few days of the October extension period and good sport if we get settled conditions.

Late October on a glorious day on the river.

The weather is to remain settled with little rain forecast for the river over the coming days, this should give us excellent prospects for sport on the river. There might be a chance of a fresh fish anywhere in the river to give us even more success. Grilse and Multi sea winter salmon continue to be caught, which is very encouraging and with the settled conditions it should be a good finally for the river. The prospect of a large salmon is a real possibility with big fish continuing to be caught every week.

A fish hooked on the fly on Horsey at Stanley.

As to methods, in settled conditions and river temperatures cooling fishing by any method will be varied to catch the elusive Tay salmon. Currently the river temperature is around 44 degrees Fahrenheit or 6.5 Celsius. Fly fishing with an intermediate line and a sink tip or with a sunk line and smallish tubes with resident fish now in the pools and varied tactics can produce results. Spinning from the bank with Devons and Tobies are a good bet. An all red devon is a good bet at this time of year.

The light is about to fade on another season on the Tay on Wednesday this coming week.

All salmon are to be released during the Extension period from Tuesday 16th until Wednesday 31st October.

To help you follow our guidelines I have included these helpful pointers

How to SAFELY Release a Salmon

A fresh salmon caught recently in the extension period.
“The best method of releasing a salmon is to leave it in the water
and touch nothing but the hook with fingers or pliers. When taking a picture, lift the fish from the water with wet hands, quickly take the picture and return it immediately back to the water.
“Whatever the method, care combined with speed, will give the fish the best chance of survival.”

A fish being carefully unhooked in the net and in the river.

Currently salmon are taking longer to recover so please give them time before releasing. Releasing fish from boats in the river is not recommended. Keep the fish in the water as much as possible and reduce handling to give them every chance to recover prior to release.

If you have any news or pictures of catches or experiences on the Tay and you would like to share them please email me on robert.salmonfishing@googlemail.com to be included in this report.

Tight lines.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Salmon Fly Fishing In Late October on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Salmon Fly Fishing In Late October on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland 2012.

Last day of the current week and it was very cold. We were out early as were many other beats to get some fishing in prior to the Canoe Tay Descent event.

A very cold start on Benchil on the lower Tay just below Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

Terry Lynch was soon into a good fish fly fishing from the boat in the Long Shot.

After a monumental battle Terry landed his first ever salmon fly fishing. It was an impressive 21 pounds which was quickly released. Cracker, well done Terry.

Billy Davidson plays a lively salmon from the boat in the Long Shot on the fly.

A fresh run 9 pounds salmon was landed and released.
Just after this the Canoe Tay Descent took effect and we adjourned for Lunch. The eveny went through Benchil from 12am to 2.30pm. Most on the canoeists were well behaved and took instruction from ghillies on the beats but there was an element that completely ruined it for all by ploughing through the pools making life very difficult. No fish were caught in the afternoon, I wonder why? !!!! This must be sorted for next year.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Late October Salmon Fly Fishing on the lower Tay 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Late October Salmon Fly Fishing on the lower Tay 2012.

It was a very cold late October day on the river today and we had a determined party on fishermen.

Mark Melville from the Delfur beat on the Spey was soon into a fish fly fishing from the bank in Horsey on the lower Tay Pitlochrie beat at Stanley, Perthshire, Scotland.

Mark landed the fish and carefully returned it.

Tim Greenfield plays a salmon from the boat in Horsey.

The fish was landed successfully and released. Both salmon that were caught on the beat took size 10 flies which is very small for this time of year. On the beat below they had one salmon and it took a 3 inch Kynoch! You can never work these fish out!

The light fades on the Wash House on a very cold night.


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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Extension on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Extension on the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

We are now in the last few days of the Tay salmon fishing season.

Autumn scene from the river.

Terry Lynch plays a salmon from the boat in the Long Shot on the lower Tay Benchil beat.

A 16 pounds autumn salmon prior to release.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland October Extension Salmon Fishing on the Tay 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland October Extension Salmon Fishing on the Tay 2012.

It was another fairly good day on the Tay in Perthshire, Scotland but getting much colder.

The afternoon light fading on the autumn colours at Benchil on the lower river below Stanley.

Craig Bunton with a 14 pounds autumn salmon caught in the Todd Holes form the boat on Benchil.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumnal Scenes from Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumnal Scenes from Perthshire, Scotland October 2012.

Perthshire, Scotland on the river Tay at its Autumnal best.

A simply stunning autumn scene of the river Tay from Stanley.

Tim Greenfield with a late fresh run Salmon caught in the famous Pitlochrie pool at Stanley.

The light fades on another autumn day on the river.

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