Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Opening Day 2013.

Salmon Fishing Scotland River Tay Opening Day 2013.

The Tay in Perthshire, Scotland opened today with massive press and television coverage at Dunkeld but after the opening ceremony it was down to the serious business of fishing for the Tay Spring Salmon.

The Tay at Dunkeld.

Cat Cubie performs the first cast. The river had a great start registering 15 spring salmon on the first day up to 21 pounds.

Jim Ferrie had a superb day, firstly assisting Cat Cubie for the all important first cast on the river, them looking after his friend Alexis Ward and guiding her on to a memorable 16 pounds opening day spring salmon on the Dunkeld stretch on the famous river Tay.

Gordon Nicol gave himself and Portnacraig Pitlochry Beat a great start to the season with a magnificent deep springer estimated from its length and girth to be about 21 lb. It was caught on a yellow and black tube fly on Pitlochry bank at the Moulin Burn mouth just after noon and carefully released.

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