The recent scorching summer weather has made salmon fishing on the Tay in Perthshire, Scotland very difficult with very low water levels and river temperature in excess of 70F or 22C however conditions are changing slowly and catches are gently increasing as salmon start to run the river. The recent first rain and odd cooler day has taken the river temperature back to the mid 60's or late teens C and encouraged salmon to start running.
This is the Skellies on the lower Tay Benchil beat just below Stanley where in low summer conditions sport can be magical and this proved the case for Tim Atkinson from Dumfries today.
On his third cast he hooked a lively salmon spinning an upstream flying c.
A cracking 6 pounds grilse prior to release.
Not long after he hooked a larger fish further up stream and played it for 5 minutes. Unfortunately it came off but it seemed a good sized fish without showing. When fishing at the moment, the streamer parts of the river tend to be more productive rather than the slower pools. Let us hope conditions continue to improve further over the coming days and weeks.
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