Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 26th April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 26th April 2014.

Another good week for the Tay.
The river Tay in Perthshire Scotland continued to catch spring salmon last week as water levels eased further and in superb spring weather. Catches were maintained as the river dropped steadily and the weather improved however the catches were spoiled at the end of the week with heavy rain and a rising river on Saturday. A strong run of spring salmon continued on the river and there was the continued sign of some more bigger multi sea winter fish with more mid twenty pounds salmon landed. There were again good catches from around Stanley upwards but there were continued signs of fish spreading up river as catches improved in the middle and Upper River giving renewed optimism for the coming week. The catches were heartening and also better than last year for the time so hopefully it is a sign of another great spring for the river as the weather improves.
This past week saw water levels ease most of the week due to better weather and improved conditions and over 110 spring salmon were registered from the river with others caught as well but not registered.

Beat catches reported
(week ending 26th April)
SALMON & GRILSE: Fishponds 1, Catholes Stanley 1, Stobhall 8, Taymount 11, Ballathie 5, Cargill 5, Islamouth 18, Upper Islamouth and Meikleour 7, Kercock 6, Murthly 1 5, Glendelvine 3, Murthly 2 7, Newtyle 11, Dunkeld House 5, Dalmarnock 1, Lower Kinnaird 4, Farleyer Upper 2, Coupar Grange 1, Portnacraig Pitlochry 10.
Total: 111 Largest: Lower Kinnaird 24lbs
SEA TROUT: Fishponds 1.
Total: 1 Largest: Fishponds 2lbs

Lower Tay.
The lower river from Islamouth to just above Stanley again fished well all week. All these beats are registering a higher catch than last year, which is very encouraging for the river. The Stanley beats and area below continued to struggle with higher water temperatures as fish can run a longer distance to get above the Catholes Weir.

The Catholes beat produced a lovely 9 pounds sea liced salmon for Peter Forster fishing from the bank in the Black Stones. Fishponds also had success. Stobhall and Taymount continued their good season so far with fish on most days.

On Taymount Phil Walkers party enjoyed a good week catching mainly on Fly. Successful rods included Alistair Sheach with 3 in a morning from Stank End, Mark Emms with fish up to 15 pounds on the fly and a 16.5 pounds beauty

shared with Alistair Sheach and Rupert Guy landing a 14 pounds beauty from the boat in Upper Eels Brig. Ballathie and Cargill had reasonable weeks but ideally would want the river to drop further. Cargill was visited by Paul Worsteling from Ifish Australia and was successful landing a 15 pounds spring salmon.

Neil French was also fishing on the beat last week and enjoyed a good bit of success landing fish up to 13 pounds on the fly. The Islamouth beat enjoyed a tremendous week catching 18 spring salmon that included 9 fish off the beat on Thursday to a regular party. Successful anglers included

Allan and Jim Ferrie,

Neil Tong, John McElroy and

Rodger Moore.

The Meikleour beats had success as well during the week on most days with Andrew McWhirter and Mark Sutherland landing a fish a piece.

Middle Tay.
The catches further upstream have continued to improve this past week as conditions have eased and the water temperature has climbed up a bit. Over the weeks to come this will inevitably improve further as the salmon run freely up the river with water levels easing. Kercock are now having better success with more fish being seen and caught with the water dropping. Anglers catching on the beat included Mark Sabido,

Brian Taylor with 2 fish up to 15 pounds, Adrian Parry and Andy Kerr. Glendelvine and the Murthly beats continue to do well with Ian Scrutons party enjoying success at the start of the week on Murthly and

Jamie White landing a superb 22 pounds fish on Glendelvine. Newtyle started to fare much better last week catching several salmon with Allan Rennie getting the week underway with an 18 pounds cracker, a supremely delighted

Ron Fraser catching 6 beauties on the fly during the week, Paul Worsteling having more success on the river with fish up to 14 pounds and David Fraser with a 12 pounds fish on a Toby.

Dunkeld House also had a good week with a few fish. Richard Hutchinson landed a superb 18 pounds fish, Peter Sproston enjoyed a superb day landing 3 salmon up to 17 pounds and Ian Pollock caught a 14 pounds fish from the Rock Pool.

On Dalmarnock Andrew Cowan caught an 11 pounds fish on a Vision. Dalguise did not enjoy any success last week but that will be short lived as fish run the river. The Kinnaird beats enjoyed limited success last week but watch this space in weeks to come!

Upper Tay.
This area is starting to see fish with Farleyer beats picking up odd fish last week.

Tummel.
It has just been a matter of time before the Tummel featured in the catches and that is certainly the case now with a few fish appearing at the Pitlochry Dam and 10 fish were caught last week. Successful anglers included Iain McLaren with fish up to 12 pounds on the fly,

Steven Watt landing several fish during the week up to 19 pounds, Callum Imray with a fish weighing 18 pounds, George Renwick catching on fly, Calum McRoberts with a vision and Roger Collins landing a 12 pounder on the Fly. Further downstream the Clubs Sawmill Stream beat is producing as well to club members with Duncan Webster and Gordon Hanslip doing well. The beats below have been catching as well but they do not register their fish on fishpal unfortunately to see the true picture.

Isla & Ericht.
Salmon are now freely running the Isla with rising water temperatures and nosing up into the Ericht. Coupar Grange had 1 fish for their week.

The Ericht is also seeing fish running now and Adam Reynolds enjoyed success with a 6 pounds fish with the help of Dougie Morison.

The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.
• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to:-
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

The Spring Salmon fishing has been excellent so far despite the big water levels with some notable catches, let us hope this is a taste of what is to come and the weather continues to settles down further to maintain it all.

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 the reports.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 28th April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 28th April 2014.

The Salmon fishing season is now at the end of April on the mighty Tay in Perthshire, Scotland and we are getting better water conditions apart from some unsettled weather at the end of last week giving us great spring fishing with a continued good spring salmon run in reasonable numbers which is now spreading throughout the river as temperatures rise. The weather was settled for most of last week making life better as river levels receded making the pursuit of that magical spring salmon a bit easier and good catches were achieved in reasonable numbers with some larger multi sea winter spring salmon caught as well.

Currently the river is falling back after the rise on Friday (approx 4’ on the Ballathie gauge). Lower river levels below 4 feet in the coming days should enable the river to produce more top quality spring fishing and as the river levels ease the fish will run further and the catches will continue to spread. The weather is be reasonably settled over the next few days, which should benefit the river and give a great chance of producing some more sport and some early "Bars of Silver" if you are prepared to brave the elements.

The weather is looking more settled for the coming week with only a small chance of rain and reasonable temperatures that should continue to settle the river back to a more manageable fishing height for everyone. The milder weather will certainly continue to give us more settled water levels and encourage salmon to run the river. The water temperature is creeping up to around 48 degrees Fahrenheit or 9 degrees Celsius. These are now normal temperatures for the time of year and the conditions have seen salmon running throughout the system with milder weather which has resulted in fish being caught well up the system, the milder weather and increased river levels will continue to encourage spring salmon to run. Hopefully there might be a chance of a fresh fish anywhere in the river.

As to methods, in settled conditions fishing by any method will have to be slow and deep with large lures to catch the elusive Tay Springer. Harling is also a favoured method at this time of year but be warned wrap up well or it will not be a pleasant experience.

Finally you are reminded that the Tay's policy for January - May 2014 is that all spring salmon should be released, i.e. the Tay has adopted a policy of 100% catch and release for spring salmon. Spring salmon are a scarce and precious resource. Please help preserve both them and the long term future of your sport by following the recommendations.

The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.

• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to: -
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

When releasing salmon please try to keep the fish in the water as much as possible to give them every chance to recover prior to release. Releasing fish from boats in the river is not recommended. Guidance on good Catch and Release practice.

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 the reports.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 19th April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 19th April 2014.

Good catches continue as water levels ease in superb Easter weather.
The river Tay in Perthshire Scotland continued to catch spring salmon last week as water levels eased further and in superb spring weather. Catches were maintained as the river dropped steadily and the weather improved. A strong run of spring salmon continued on the river and there was the continued sign of some more bigger multi sea winter fish with more mid twenty pounds salmon landed. There were again good catches from around Stanley upwards but there were continued signs of fish spreading up river as catches improved in the middle and Upper River giving renewed optimism for the coming week. The catches were heartening and also better than last year for the time so hopefully it is a sign of another great spring for the river as the weather relents.
This past week saw water levels ease most of the week due to better weather and improved conditions and over 120 spring salmon were registered from the river with others caught as well but not registered.

Beat catches reported
(week ending 19th April)
SALMON & GRILSE: Upper Redgorton 1, Fishponds 2, Catholes Stanley 1, Upper Scone 1, Pitlochrie 1, Stobhall 6, Taymount 7, Ballathie 4, Cargill 3, Islamouth 14, Upper Islamouth and Meikleour 9, Kercock 3, Murthly 1 11, Glendelvine 6, Murthly 2 15, Newtyle 2, Dunkeld House 5, Dalguise 3, Lower Kinnaird 3, Upper Kinnaird 2, Findynate 1, Farleyer Upper 4, Coupar Grange 5, Portnacraig Pitlochry 13.
Total: 122 Largest: Murthly 1 30lbs
SEA TROUT: Lower Redgorton 5, Dalguise 1.
Total: 6 Largest: Dalguise 5lbs

Lower Tay.
The lower river from Islamouth to just above Stanley again fished well all week. All these beats are registering a higher catch than last year, which is very encouraging for the river. The Stanley beats seem to be struggling now with higher water temperatures as fish can run a longer distance to get above the Catholes Weir. The Catholes beat produced a lovely 7 pounds sea liced salmon for Kimmo Koskela visiting from Finland, caught fly fishing from the boat in the Catholes Stream. There were some other salmon caught at Stanley and below last week, which was encouraging as most of the beats in that area has had a very lean spring due to excessive high water and some unwelcome visitors. Sea Trout started to appear as well with Lower Redgorton catching 5 in one day.

Rob Jones caught a lovely fresh 11 pounds salmon on Upper Redgorton on his first trip to the Tay. On the same area of the river

Fishponds also had success with Ian Beveridge catching a superb 17 pounds springer. Stobhall and Taymount continued their good season so far with fish on most days. On Taymount Ken Lister enjoyed a good week with 3 fish and

David Jarvis caught a cracking 18.5 pounds spring salmon on the fly from the boat after a titanic struggle. Ballathie and Cargill also caught on most days as fish run freely up river.

On Cargill Adrian Jackson jnr caught his first ever salmon weighing 16 pounds from the boat. Islamouth and Meikleour had good weeks with several salmon successfully landed.

The Meikleour fishing’s had some great sport during the week with fish up to 19 pounds.


Middle Tay.
The catches further upstream have continued to improve this past week as conditions have eased and the water temperature has climbed up a bit. Over the weeks to come this will inevitably improve further as the salmon run freely up the river with water levels easing. Kercock are now having better success with more fish being seen and the water dropping.

Jamie Newell caught his first ever salmon then proceeded to catch his second last Wednesday and

Jackie Taylor caught a 15 pounds fish. The Murthly and Glendelvine beats had superb weeks catching several salmon including fish of 25 and 30 pounds in weight. Hopefully this will continue over the coming weeks and better last years good catches. Further up river on Newtyle,

Belgium angler Leen Verhoeven caught her first Scottish salmon under the proud eyes of her father as they enjoyed a weeks fishing on the Tay on different beats and Elliot Bryant was successful with the fly landing a 12 pounds fish on a Tummel Monkey from the Steps pool. The Dunkeld house beat had a good week with fish on most days and some cracking fish up to 20 pounds in weight. Successful anglers included Richard Hutchinson with an 18 pounds fish from the Cathedral Stream, Gerald Ferguson with a 20 pounds fish from the boat in the Ivy Tree and

Jimmy Lapsey with a 17 pounder from the Rock pool caught on a Vision. Dalguise reported odd fish with Kenny Tragham catching a 7 pounds fish from the boat in the Bridge Stream, and then 2 fish were caught on Saturday, one by Robert McFarlane on the fly from the Island Run and the other landed by Andy Kerr on a Toby in the Otterstone. A 5 pounds early sea trout was also reported from the beat caught on the fly. The Kinnaird beats have also been producing fish on a regular basis with the fly being successful on the lower beat and

Calvin Laidlaw amongst anglers landing good fish from the Upper beat.


Upper Tay.
This area is starting to see fish with Farleyer beats and Findynate catching last week.

Tummel.
It has just been a matter of time before the Tummel featured in the catches and that is certainly the case now with a few fish appearing at the Pitlochry Dam and 13 fish were caught last week. Successful anglers included Richard Bond and Ian Mclaren catching fish up to 16 pounds on Monday both on the fly, visiting angler

Andy Mantle caught a superb 20 pounds fish on the fly, Dave Stewart and Steven Watt were both successful with the fly on Wednesday and then local angler Calum McRoberts had a red letter day on Friday catching 5 fish including a superb 24 pounds beauty all on Visions. Visiting anglers Thomas Andrew and Dean McGowan caught a fish each on the fly on Saturday completed the week. The beats below have been catching as well but they do not register their fish on fishpal unfortunately to see the true picture.

Isla.
Salmon are now freely running the Isla with rising water temperatures and nosing up into the Ericht. Coupar Grange had 5 fish for their week.


The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.
• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to:-
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

The Spring Salmon fishing has been excellent so far despite the big water levels with some notable catches, let us hope this is a taste of what is to come and the weather continues to settles down further to maintain it all.

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 the reports.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 21st April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 21st April 2014.

The Salmon fishing season is now in mid April on the mighty Tay in Perthshire, Scotland and we are getting better water conditions and superb spring weather over the past week giving us great spring fishing with a continued good spring salmon run in reasonable numbers which is now spreading throughout the river as temperatures rise. The weather was more settled last week making life better as river levels receded making the pursuit of that magical spring salmon a bit easier and good catches were achieved in reasonable numbers with some larger multi sea winter spring salmon caught as well.

Currently the river is falling back steadily (approx under 3’ on the Ballathie gauge). Lower river levels below 3 feet in the coming days should enable the river to produce more top quality spring fishing and as the river levels ease the fish will run further and the catches will continue to spread. The weather is be reasonably settled over the next few days, which should benefit the river and give a great chance of producing some more sport and some early "Bars of Silver" if you are prepared to brave the elements.

The weather is looking more settled for the start of the coming week with some rain later and reasonable temperatures that should continue to settle the river back to a more manageable fishing height for everyone. The milder weather will certainly continue to give us more settled water levels and encourage salmon to run the river. The water temperature is creeping up to around 47 degrees Fahrenheit or 8 degrees Celsius. These are higher temperatures than last year and the conditions have seen salmon running throughout the system with milder weather which has resulted in fish being caught well up the system, the milder weather and increased river levels will continue to encourage spring salmon to run. Hopefully there might be a chance of a fresh fish anywhere in the river. There will still be a few kelts about on many beats despite all the high water.
As to methods, in settled conditions fishing by any method will have to be slow and deep with large lures to catch the elusive Tay Springer. Harling is also a favoured method at this time of year but be warned wrap up well or it will not be a pleasant experience.

Finally you are reminded that the Tay's policy for January - May 2014 is that all spring salmon should be released, i.e. the Tay has adopted a policy of 100% catch and release for spring salmon. Spring salmon are a scarce and precious resource. Please help preserve both them and the long term future of your sport by following the recommendations.

The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.

• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to: -
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

When releasing salmon please try to keep the fish in the water as much as possible to give them every chance to recover prior to release. Releasing fish from boats in the river is not recommended. Guidance on good Catch and Release practice.

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 the reports.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Spring Salmon Fly Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Spring Salmon Fly Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire April 2014.

The Tay in Perthshire, Scotland is having its best week of the Salmon fishing season so far with over 100 spring salmon registered to date and more to come. The river temperature is rising steadily now and fly fishing is becoming a better option as we enter the upper 40's in Fahrenheit meaning floating lines and sink tips are the tactics.

This was Finnish visitor Kimmo Koskela playing a good spring salmon on the Catholes at Stanley on the fly.


A superb sea liced 7 pounds fish was successfully landed prior to release.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Spring Salmon fishing on the Tay, Perthshire April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Spring Salmon fishing on the Tay, Perthshire April 2014.

The current salmon fishing week has got off to a superb start with 30 plus spring salmon registered on Monday including a 25 pounds fish from Murthly. Hopefully we are now heading for the best week of the year so far as temperatures rise and fish run freely up the system.

This was Peter Backhouse and Ken Fenton with a 12 pounds spring salmon caught in Pitlochrie pool at Stanley.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 12th April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire, Scotland Salmon Fishing Report for week ending 12th April 2014.

Good catches continue as water levels ease further.
The river Tay in Perthshire Scotland continued to catch spring salmon last week as water levels eased further. Catches were maintained as the river dropped steadily and the weather improved. A strong run of spring salmon continued on the river and there was the continued sign of some more bigger multi sea winter fish with more mid twenty pounds salmon landed. There were again good catches from around Stanley upwards but there were continued signs of fish spreading up river as catches improved in the middle and Upper River giving renewed optimism for the coming week. The catches were heartening and also better than last year for the time so hopefully it is a sign of another great spring for the river as the weather relents.
This past week saw water levels ease most of the week due to better weather and improved conditions and over 110 spring salmon were registered from the river with others caught as well but not registered.

Beat catches reported
(week ending 12th April)
SALMON & GRILSE: Catholes Stanley 1, Upper Scone 1, Catholes Campsie 1, Stobhall 10, Taymount 8, Ballathie 4, Cargill 13, Islamouth 10, Upper Islamouth and Meikleour 6, Kercock 4, Murthly 1 3, Glendelvine 5, Murthly 2 7, Newtyle 1, Dunkeld House 5, Dalguise 2, Lower Kinnaird 2, Upper Kinnaird 3, Findynate 3, Farleyer Upper 4, Farleyer Lower 1, Keithick Mains 7, Coupar Grange 7, Portnacraig Pitlochry 3.
Total: 111 Largest: Cargill & Islamouth 22lbs

Lower Tay.
The lower river from Islamouth to just above Stanley again fished well all week. All these beats are registering a higher catch than last year, which is very encouraging for the river. The Stanley beats seem to be struggling now with higher water temperatures as fish can run a longer distance to get above the Catholes Weir. The Catholes beat had 2 fish for the week caught by Martin Moyers and John Dewar from just below the weir and Upper Scone landed a fish from Horsey caught by George Patterson in the boat. Stobhall and Taymount had good weeks landing nearly 20 spring fish between them. Cargill also had a good week landing several salmon up to 20 odd pounds.

Successful anglers included David Saunders with a 12 pounder from the boat, Ben Frost with his first Tay spring salmon, Roy Frost with a superb 20 pounds sea licer, 15 year old Craig Mason landing 2 in a day and Andrew Stephen landing a 22 pounds beauty on Friday. The Islamouth and Meikleour beats have been catching consistently as well. The Meikleour beats caught fish up to 18 pounds on the home stretch. Down on Islamouth 10 springers were landed in the week with

Berny Morritt landing a superb 22 pounds fish and

Paul Dolman catching a 17 pounds fish from the Green bank on a Vision.

Middle Tay.
The catches further upstream have continued to improve this past week as conditions have eased and the water temperature has climbed up a bit. Over the weeks to come this will inevitably improve further as the salmon run freely up the river with water levels easing. Kercock are now having better success with more fish being seen and the water dropping. Simon Duprey caught an 11 pounds fish and Robert McFarlane caught 2 up to 12 pounds from the beat. The Murthly and Glendelvine beats continue to fish well with improving conditions. Dunkeld House had a reasonable week with James Anderson catching a couple up to 15 pounds, Calum McRoberts caught an 8 pounds fish and

Saturday regulars Robert Harvey and Willie Cunning caught fish up to 16 pounds. Dalguise had a better week with 2 fish landed and 4 lost. Drew Laing caught a 10 pounds fish on the fly from the Otterstone and Larry Dunkley landed a 10 pounds fish on a Toby at the tail of the Otterstone. The Kinnaird beats also landed fish during the week.

Upper Tay.
This area is starting to see fish with Farleyer beats and Findynate catching. Bolfracks have also been catching odd fish with Perth angler Peter Backhouse catching a superb 23 pounds springer from the beat last week.

Tummel.
It has just been a matter of time before the Tummel featured in the catches but it kicked off a week ago with a few fish appearing at the Pitlochry Dam and more fish were caught last week. Successful anglers included Duncan Webster with a 14 pounds fish which was also caught at Dunkeld earlier in the season as it had been tagged, Paul McCarthy with a 16 pounds beauty caught on a Blair Spoon and

Kenny Horne with a 15 pounds fish on a spinner from Port-na-Craig. The beats below have been catching as well but they do not register their fish on fishpal unfortunately to see the true picture.

Isla.
Salmon are now freely running the Isla with rising water temperatures and nosing up into the Ericht. Coupar Grange and Keithick Mains both had 7 fish for their week.

The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.
• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to:-
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

The Spring Salmon fishing has been excellent so far despite the big water levels with some notable catches, let us hope this is a taste of what is to come and the weather continues to settles down further to maintain it all.

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 the reports.

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Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 14th April 2014.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 14th April 2014.

The Salmon fishing season is now in mid April on the mighty Tay in Perthshire, Scotland and we are at last getting better water conditions over the past week giving us great spring fishing with a continued good spring salmon run in reasonable numbers which is now spreading throughout the river as temperatures rise. The weather was more settled last week making life better as river levels receded making the pursuit of that magical spring salmon a bit easier and good catches were achieved in reasonable numbers with some larger multi sea winter spring salmon caught as well.

Dunkeld
Currently the river is falling back steadily (approx 4’ on the Ballathie gauge). Lower river levels below 4 feet in the coming days should enable the river to produce more top quality spring fishing and as the river levels ease the fish will run further and the catches will continue to spread. The weather is be reasonably settled over the next few days, which should benefit the river and give a great chance of producing some more sport and some early "Bars of Silver" if you are prepared to brave the elements.

The weather is looking more settled this coming week with some rain and reasonable temperatures that should continue to settle the river back to a more manageable fishing height for everyone. The milder weather will certainly continue to give us more water and encourage salmon to run the river. The water temperature is creeping up to around 45 degrees Fahrenheit or 7 degrees Celsius. These are higher temperatures than last year and the conditions have seen salmon running throughout the system with milder weather which has resulted in fish being caught well up the system, the milder weather and increased river levels will continue to encourage spring salmon to run. Hopefully there might be a chance of a fresh fish anywhere in the river. There will still be a few kelts about on many beats despite all the high water.

Caputh Bridge
As to methods, in settled conditions fishing by any method will have to be slow and deep with large lures to catch the elusive Tay Springer. Harling is also a favoured method at this time of year but be warned wrap up well or it will not be a pleasant experience.

Tummel
Finally you are reminded that the Tay's policy for January - May 2014 is that all spring salmon should be released, i.e. the Tay has adopted a policy of 100% catch and release for spring salmon. Spring salmon are a scarce and precious resource. Please help preserve both them and the long term future of your sport by following the recommendations.

The Tay Ghillies Association has launched a FISH OF THE MONTH AWARD to encourage good catch and release practice on the Tay. Each month the winner will receive 2 personalised crystal Whisky glasses engraved with details of the catch and they will automatically be entered into the fish of the year competition for a Stylish Crystal Engraved Decanter.

• Catch a good Tay Salmon
• Weigh it carefully and photograph it with as little handling as possible.
• Verify with Ghillie
• Safely return the fish with a minimum of handling
• TGA Committee decision is final
Send entries with a photo and verification details to: -
Mike Hay, Sec of Tay Ghillies Assoc.
Mobile: 07762 464407
Email: tayhayurg@gmail.com

When releasing salmon please try to keep the fish in the water as much as possible to give them every chance to recover prior to release. Releasing fish from boats in the river is not recommended. Guidance on good Catch and Release practice.

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 the reports.

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