Sunday, October 18, 2015

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 15th October 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 15th October 2015.

The autumn salmon fishing season on the Tay in Perthshire has finally ended with settled water levels recently due to better weather and a bit of water over the last couple of weeks which gave us by and large settled river conditions and catches have been reasonable. Heavy rain and a small spate last week saw an improvement in catches and a bit more water in the river, which helped sport for the last 4 days. We have had an excellent late spring period with the river equaling last years catches so far and improving on the 5 year average. The current trend continued in June but slowed up for a few weeks but now there has been reasonable catches week on week as we see the autumn fishing end in settled conditions. The autumn period needs consistent rain to keep levels up and keep fish running however that did not happen from September and catches were suppressed.
Summer and autumn salmon were landed last week in good numbers due to excellent conditions and some good weather after a mini spate the pervious week. We recorded another reasonable catch despite difficult conditions in settled autumnal conditions. There was some outstanding autumn sunshine and it was warm making life hard going. Fish were landed daily from all over as river levels fell steadily and the quality of the salmon caught remained outstanding with fish caught in the late teens and mid twenties. Grilse are still running in numbers with more caught and in excellent condition, which is strange for the time of year, but could this be more evidence of the run changing slowly to spring dominance in the future? There is all ready great expectation for the coming spring in 2016.

Beat catches reported(week ending 17th October)
SALMON & GRILSE: Almondmouth 10, Waulkmill 24, Lower Redgorton 15, Luncarty 2, Upper Redgorton 6, Fishponds 9, Stanley Pitlochrie Benchil 1, Upper Scone 8, Stobhall 12, Taymount 15, Ballathie 10, Cargill 14, Islamouth 13, Meikleour and Upper Islamouth 11, Kercock 27, Glendelvine 5, Murthly 2 5, Newtyle 7, Dunkeld House 9, Dalmarnock 9, Dalguise 1, Lower Kinnaird 2, Upper Kinnaird 3, Findynate 1, Farleyer Upper 5, Farleyer Lower 5, Lower Aberuthven 1, Ericht Fishing 4, Loch Faskally 2, Ruan Ruarie 1.
Total: 237 Largest: Murthly 2 29lbs
SEA TROUT: Lower Redgorton 1, Upper Redgorton 1, Meikleour and Upper Islamouth 1, Lower Kinnaird 1, Upper Kinnaird 14, Lower Aberuthven 4, Lochlane and Laggan 1.
Total: 23 Largest: Lower Redgorton & Lower Aberuthven 3lbs

The Lower Tay continued to have good catches in the last few days. Almondmouth had a quieter time with 10 fish proving the fish were not running in numbers maybe due to the low water levels. It was quiet on the Stormont Angling Club water as well. Lower Redgorton and Waulkmill had a very good end with nearly 40 fish between them. Upper Redgorton and Fishponds also did reasonably well with 15. On Upper Redgorton the Dunnet party had some sport with Bill and Sandra Robbins catching and Bob Morrison caught a good fish on a Copper Kynoch from the boat. On Luncarty Tim Greenfields party enjoyed success on the last day with Terry Lynch and Kenny Scott both landing 7 pounds late run silver fish. Upper Scone also had reasonable sport with Gary Perks catching on spinner and fly.
Jonathan Sturt caught a sea liced 6 pounds fish from the Little shot on Benchil with Stanley Fishings. Taymount and Stobhall faired well in the last few days with 27 between them. The lower water over the last few weeks have boosted catches on Ballathie and Cargill.
On Cargill Ian Jardine, Steve Curnow and Neil French enjoyed sport on fly and spinner. The Muir Homes party also enjoyed success on the beat. Islamouth had reasonable sport over the last few days completing another good season for the beat with the majority of their fish caught on fly. Upper Islamouth and Meikleour had reasonable sport over the last few days with fish on all the final days. Malcolm Anderson, Neil Thomas and Ian Bissett all caught landing fish up to 21 pounds with a few others lost.

The Middle river was also producing sport despite the low water conditions. Kercock had a great end of the season with 27 fish landed in the last four days taking their season tally to 249.
Good fish were landed including a 24 pounds monster for Sandy Datta with Darren Kaye and
Ken Mackie also having success. The Murthly and Glendelvine beats had fish as well with a 29 pounds fish reported from Murthly 2 and 5 were caught on Glendelvine on Wednesday.
Newtyle signed off well taking their season count over 250. Angus Jordan, Neil Scrimgeour, John Stamp, Rodger Worth and Farquhar Murray all caught good fish up to 15 pounds on fly and spinner.
Dunkeld House also signed off on a high with 5 on the last day. David Ritchie caught a cracking fresh 13 pounds fish proving fish were still running the river. Jimmy Lapsley, Robert Harvey, Mark Cockburn and Gordon Pollock landed fish up to 18 pounds gained further success. Dalmarnock had a reasonable final flurry with 9 fish. Dalguise and the Kinnaird beats had odd fish as well.

The Tummel is continuing to produce odd fish as fish make their way up to Pitlochry dam and through it with the counter is now showing over 5500. Dave Wilson caught a fish at Ruan Ruarie and reported seeing several others, which is encouraging for the future. 2 were also reported from Loch Faskally.

The Upper areas are seeing fish on their beats. Eleven salmon were reported from the Farleyer and Findynate beats as they run up to Loch Tay.

On Loch Tay fish are running and must be staring to go up the Dochart but nothing was reported last week.

The Isla is seeing salmon run and caught however no fish were registered.

The Ericht is also seeing fish run but need bigger water now with 4 reported.

The Earn were also seeing salmon and Sea Trout run with 1 fish recorded this week from Lower Aberuthven. Sport has picked up at the bottom of the river as well with some good fresh fish landed.

The Salmon fishing season has now ended and expectation remained high throughout the year. Late spring catches were tremendous and June continued to encourage everyone after fish were caught in the system in continuing better numbers. Recent rain and some fresh water encouraged more salmon to run the river and catches were reasonable for the autumn. A few more spates were required but you cannot have it perfect all the time! Attentions now start to focus on the spring of 2016.

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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Thursday, October 15, 2015

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Salmon Fishing on Tay, Perthshire October 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Autumn Salmon Fishing on Tay, Perthshire October 2015.

The salmon fishing season has finally reached the last day of the 2015 season and conditions are far from ideal but still everyone is having some form of success with over 150 fish recorded for the first three days of the week.
The autumn scenery has been superb with some late autumn sunshine.
The leaves are turning slowly and are still mostly on the trees of Perthshire.
Jonathan Sturt plays a lively salmon in the Little Shot on Benchil just below Stanley.
A lovely 6 pounds fresh grilse in October.
The autumn sun will finally fade on another salmon fishing season tonight and then our attentions will quickly turn to spring in January!

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Sunday, October 11, 2015

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 10th October 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 10th October 2015.

The autumn salmon fishing on the Tay in Perthshire is nearing the end of the season and it has been improving steadily after an excellent spring period with varying conditions for fishing, settled water levels recently due to better weather and a bit of water over the last couple of weeks has given us by and large settled river conditions and catches have been consistently good. The heavy rain and small spate last week saw an improvement in catches and a bit more water in the river, which should now take us through the last 4 days. We have had an excellent late spring period with the river equaling last years catches so far and improving on the 5 year average. The current trend continued in June but slowed up for a few weeks but now there has been reasonable catches week on week as we see the autumn fishing end on Thursday in settled conditions. Recent rains have given the river a bit of fresh water and this has triggered off an improvement in the run combined with settled conditions. The spring period ended some time ago but steady conditions have spread fish throughout the system in the last few months, this may be the catalyst for even better catches which hopefully will continue over the next few weeks as we go deeper into autumn. This past month has been consistent with the river holding a good stock of fish especially in the middle areas and a lot of fish are now drifting back down to the lower river in big numbers. We now are seeing a developing autumn run of salmon and late grilse. Expectation remains high on the river for 2015 after consistent catches recently and hopefully favourable conditions over the last few days will give everyone a chance of landing a Tay “Bar of Silver”.
Summer and autumn salmon were landed last week in better numbers due to excellent conditions and some good weather after a mini spate. We recorded another reasonable catch despite difficult conditions and hopefully that will bring even more success this coming week in settled autumnal conditions. There was some outstanding autumn sunshine and it was warm making life hard going. Fish were landed daily from all over as river levels fell steadily and the quality of the salmon caught remained outstanding with fish caught in the late teens and mid twenties. Grilse are running in better numbers with more caught and in excellent condition, which is strange for the time of year, but could this be more evidence of the run changing slowly to a spring dominance in the future? On the nature front the Sand Martins, Swallows and Ospreys have gone, Kingfishers dart past, and the first Geese are arriving. It is a magical time of year with all the autumn colours as well. It is true what they say, “ a salmon is a bonus!”

Beat catches reported(week ending 10th October)
SALMON & GRILSE: Almondmouth 31, Waulkmill 12, Lower Redgorton 13, Luncarty 1, Upper Redgorton 7, Fishponds 10, Stanley Pitlochrie Benchil 7, Catholes Stanley 2, Upper Scone 6, Stobhall 38, Taymount 25, Ballathie 15, Cargill 30, Islamouth 19, Meikleour and Upper Islamouth 4, Kercock 10, Murthly 2 12, Newtyle 10, Dalguise 1, Lower Kinnaird 16, Upper Kinnaird 5, Findynate 2, Farleyer Upper 5, Farleyer Lower 2, Lower Aberuthven 6, Lochlane and Laggan 3, Ericht Fishing 6.
Total: 298 Largest: Almondmouth 25lbs
SEA TROUT: Waulkmill 3, Lower Redgorton 3, Fishponds 3, Taymount 2, Cargill 4, Lower Kinnaird 2, Lower Aberuthven 2.
Total: 19 Largest: Cargill 4lbs

Salmon have been caught throughout the system this past week in steadily improving numbers and conditions at times making it ideal as fish run and fish are continuing to spread throughout the river. Bigger and fresh water may have encouraged more to run recently. The mandatory government catch and release restrictions have ended however the river would ask everyone to observe the TDSB recommendations to preserve what we have for future years. Return rates are at an all time low from the sea and wild salmon are a precious resource to the Tay and all rivers in Scotland. Handling of fresh salmon in particular is a big issue now if we are serious about successful release to enable as many salmon as possible to survive to spawn. 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 and is bad practice. Further information on the policy and good release practice. If an area of the river starts to kill salmon to excess the mandatory policy will ultimately increase beyond the spring and maybe for the whole season that would not be a popular concept for our fragile rural economy. Thank you for all who preserve the recommendations and shame on the few who cannot, their shortsighted outlook will bring everyone down and cost jobs throughout Scotland’s river systems.

The Lower Tay below Stanley were seeing more fish recorded again this past week, also the beats just above the Stanley area were doing well as fish continue to race up the system and older fish drop back towards the Almond, Shochie and Ordie system. This part of the river is holding a lot of fish currently. Almondmouth are catching more fish, as it is a barometer at this time of year of fish running the river. They caught 31 including a 25 pounds beauty and fish are being caught on the Stormont Angling club water as well encouraging everyone. Lower Redgorton, Waulkmill, Upper Redgorton and Fishponds also registered fish in reasonable numbers despite hard conditions with over 40 caught between them in the week with more fish running and showing.
At Upper Redgorton Paul Coggins landed a 16 pounds salmon from the Craigs on a Vision. On Luncarty Jim Crossland caught a 5 pounds grilse then David Sutton caught his first ever salmon on Catholes in the Black Stones. Peter Butterfield also caught a fresh grilse on the Catholes. Upper Scone and Stanley had to work hard for fish in the week as the water quickly dropped away. German visitor Andreas Grass caught a lovely fresh grilse from Kirkie on the fly and
Charles Savage landed a 13 pounds fish from Horsey on a Rapala.
Barry Gris caught on fly and spinner from Benchil and Pitlochrie.
Gordon LaFortune from Switzerland caught a good fish fly fishing from the boat in the Long Shot on Benchil. Stobhall and Taymount had good weeks with over 60 fish between them. Ray Bailies party had a good week on Stobhall including a double figure day. John Coughlan, Roy Alderslade, David Dodds, Ray Bailie, Jim Ferrie and Simon Furniss all had success. On Taymount John Pendleton, Dave Parkes, Tony Riccard and Mike Roberts all caught fish. Ballathie and Cargill are doing much better now with consistent catches.
Cargill caught 31 fish in the week with Andy Yeandale, Mike Rowlands,
Neil French and Christian Lasielle all catching on fly. Islamouth had a much better week with 19. Upper Islamouth and Meikleour had a quieter week with the water dropping away again which included Barry Odger catching a grilse on the fly from the Boxwood Bush.

The Middle river is fishing reasonably well with consistent catches with a settled river improving prospects. Kercock had another reasonable week with 10 fish and no shortage of fish on the beat taking their season total to over 200. Murthly and Glendelvine had a quieter week with around 15 fish. Ian Scrutons party enjoyed success on Murthly 1.
Newtyle had a similar week with 10 fish which included Jon Jagger catching a fine 17 pounds fish from the Boil, he also landed an 8 pounds fish from the right bank of the Boil in the evening, both fish on the fly. Nolan Wall caught a 12 pounds fish from the tail of the Cotter also on the fly. Other successes came from Peter Noble and Peter Dunkerley landing grilse up to 5 pounds. Dunkeld House and Dalmarnock had quiet weeks. Dalguise had a fish and the Kinnaird beats did well at the end of the week with over 10 fish coming from both beats.

The Tummel is continuing to produce odd fish as fish make their way up to Pitlochry dam and through it with the counter is now showing over 5365.

The Upper areas are seeing fish on their beats. Nine salmon were reported from the Farleyer and Findynate beats as they run up to Loch Tay. Andreas Grass had fish on the fly from Farleyer including a beauty weighing approximately 20 pounds.

On Loch Tay fish are running and must be staring to go up the Dochart but nothing was reported last week.

The Isla is seeing salmon run and caught however no fish were registered.

The Ericht is also seeing fish run but need bigger water now with 6 reported.

The Earn were also seeing salmon and Sea Trout run with 6 fish recorded this week from Lower Aberuthven including one at 22 pounds. Sport has picked up at the bottom of the river as well with some good fresh fish landed.

The Salmon fishing season is now nearing the end and expectation remains high after great catches recently and poor overall catches last year. Late spring catches have been tremendous and June continued to encourage everyone after fish were caught in the system in continuing better numbers. Recent rain and fresh water is encouraging more salmon to run the river and catches are on the up with lots of resident fish in many beats so let us hope with improving conditions the upturn will continue. Tight lines!

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 12th October 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Prospects for the Tay, Perthshire, Scotland week commencing 12th October 2015.

The Salmon fishing season is now nearing the end on the mighty Tay in Perthshire, Scotland as we enter the last few days with settled autumnal weather by and large for the last couple of weeks despite a small spate last week. The rain last week gave us a small spate and improved sport. There has been plenty fresh water prior to the settled period for us in the pursuit of that magical salmon with some occasional warmer conditions.
The weather is to be settled over the coming week with little or no rain, but hopefully this will not deter the chances of producing good sport and some "Bars of Silver" if you are prepared to have a go. Catches improved last week in settled conditions after the spate with quality salmon caught and as we go deeper into Autumn hopefully conditions will remain favourable and there will be a further improvement in the run to give even more success.
Currently the river is settled and falling back to summer levels again (below 1’6 on the Ballathie gauge). A bit of rain and colder conditions now would help to hopefully encourage more salmon to run and make the old ones more responsive.
The weather is to be settled for the week with high pressure dominating again. We have been seeing summer conditions prevail recently with low water but could desperately need a change with heavy rain to liven things up for the rest of the season but unfortunately that is not going to happen. The tremendous spring run is long gone and warmer conditions have enabled spring salmon to run hard up the river and spread rapidly but the arrival of summer and autumn fish is improving slowly and maintaining sport after recent rains.
Currently there is also a falling back of older fish in the lower river and everyone is reporting good numbers in their beats. The dramatic rise in river levels last week triggered off much better sport and there was an improvement in catches and hopefully that will continue for the last few days.
Expectation remains very high. The general forecast will settle river levels and hopefully maintain sport and make reasonable autumn fishing conditions. The water temperature is around 52 degrees Fahrenheit or 11 degrees Celsius but may fall and help as well to make the fish far more aggressive. These are typical temperatures for this time of year.
As to methods, in settled conditions fishing by any method should enable you to catch the elusive Tay Salmon. The water temperature has warmed up enabling floating lines to come out with the addition of a sink tip being a favoured tactic and using normal dressed flies. It is still worth a go with sinking lines as well depending on water heights and stripping a Sun Ray Shadow is always worth a go. When spinning, Tay favourites include Toby Salmos, weighted and floating devons, flying C’s and Visons or Rapalas. Harling is also a favoured method at this time of year on many beats.
Finally you are reminded that the Tay's policy from June to the end of 2015 Season is that
• All hen fish of any size and all cock fish over 10 pounds should be released.
• All coloured and gravid fish to be released.
• No more than one clean fish weighing, where possible, less than 10 pounds should be retained per angler per day.
• Anglers should not use worms in September or October in any part of the district.
Please help preserve both them and the long term future of your sport by following the recommendations. It is vital the river system follows these guide lines to ensure the draconian new Scottish Government Statutory Conservation Regulation rules do not get extended in seasons to come.

The Tay Ghillies Association are continuing their popular 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. Full details of this initiative.
Return rates are at an all time low from the sea and wild salmon are a precious resource to the Tay and all rivers in Scotland. Handling of fresh salmon in particular is a big issue now if we are serious about successful release to enable as many salmon as possible to survive to spawn.
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 and is bad practice. Further information on the policy and good release practice. If an area of the river starts to kill salmon to excess the mandatory policy will ultimately increase beyond the spring and maybe for the whole season that would not be a popular concept for our fragile rural economy. Thank you for all who preserve the recommendations and shame on the few who cannot, their shortsighted outlook will bring everyone down and cost jobs throughout Scotland’s river systems.
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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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Salmon Fishing Scotland October Salmon Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland October Salmon Fishing on the Tay, Perthshire 2015.

Rain was desperately needed to spice up the Autumn salmon fishing on the Tay, Perthshire after a prolonged period of very low water and stale fish in the pools. This picture shows the dark rain clouds gathering.
A six to seven foot spate was granted so let us hope the sport picks up in earnest over the last few days of our season.
Charles Savage with a 13 pounds salmon caught in Horsey on the Pitlochrie beat at Stanley prior to the water going up.
The increase in water levels have made salmon run so let us hope sport picks up and gives us a good end to the season.

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Sunday, October 4, 2015

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 3rd October 2015.

Salmon Fishing Scotland Tay, Perthshire Salmon Fishing Report for W/E 3rd October 2015.

The autumn salmon fishing on the Tay in Perthshire is nearing the end of the season and it has been improving steadily after an excellent spring period with varying conditions for fishing, settled water levels recently due to better weather and a bit of water over the last couple of weeks has given us by and large settled river conditions and catches have been consistently good. The forecast of heavy rain this week and the prospect of a big spate could really kick off sport for the last 11 days of the season. We have had an excellent late spring period with the river equaling last years catches so far and improving on the 5 year average. The current trend continued in June but slowed up for a few weeks but now there are good signs of improvement week on week as we see autumn arrive if we get settled conditions. Recent rains have given the river plenty of fresh water and this has triggered off an improvement in the run combined with settled conditions. The spring period ended some time ago but steady conditions have spread fish throughout the system in the last few months, this may be the catalyst for even better catches which hopefully will continue over the next few weeks as we go deeper into autumn. This past month has been consistent with the river holding a good stock of fish especially in the middle areas and a lot of fish are now drifting back down to the lower river in big numbers. We now are seeing a developing autumn run of salmon and grilse and with a big spate required sport should improve further. Expectation remains high on the river for 2015 after consistent catches recently and hopefully favourable conditions may trigger off improving runs as we go into Autumn to give everyone a chance of landing a Tay “Bar of Silver”.
Summer and autumn salmon were landed last week in reasonable numbers due to excellent conditions and some good weather. We recorded another reasonable catch despite difficult conditions and hopefully that will bring even more success this coming week with rain forecast. There was some outstanding autumn sunshine and it was warm making life hard going. Fish were landed daily from all over as river levels fell steadily and the quality of the salmon caught remained outstanding with fish caught in the late teens. Grilse are running in better numbers with more caught and in excellent condition, which is strange for the time of year, but could this be more evidence of the run changing slowly to a spring dominance in the future? On the nature front the Sand Martins, Swallows and Ospreys have gone, Kingfishers dart past, and the first Geese are arriving. It is a magical time of year with all the autumn colours as well. It is true what they say, “ a salmon is a bonus!”
Beat catches reported(week ending 3rd October)
SALMON & GRILSE: Almondmouth 37, Waulkmill 10, Lower Redgorton 15, Luncarty 3, Upper Redgorton 2, Fishponds 2, Stanley Pitlochrie Benchil 9, Upper Scone 6, Stobhall 3, Taymount 11, Ballathie 17, Cargill 11, Islamouth 4, Meikleour and Upper Islamouth 9, Kercock 12, Glendelvine 2, Murthly 2 6, Newtyle 6, Dunkeld House 6, Dalmarnock 7, Dalguise 3, Lower Kinnaird 3, Upper Kinnaird 2, Findynate 2, Farleyer Upper 1, Ericht Fishing 2.
Total: 191 Largest: Almondmouth & Ballathie & Dunkeld House 18lbs
SEA TROUT: Waulkmill 1, Lower Redgorton 1, Murthly 2 1.
Total: 3 Largest: Murthly 2 3lbs

Salmon have been caught throughout the system this past week in steadily improving numbers and conditions at times making it ideal as fish run and fish are continuing to spread throughout the river. Bigger and fresh water may have encouraged more to run recently. The mandatory government catch and release restrictions have ended however the river would ask everyone to observe the TDSB recommendations to preserve what we have for future years. Return rates are at an all time low from the sea and wild salmon are a precious resource to the Tay and all rivers in Scotland. Handling of fresh salmon in particular is a big issue now if we are serious about successful release to enable as many salmon as possible to survive to spawn. 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 and is bad practice. Further information on the policy and good release practice. If an area of the river starts to kill salmon to excess the mandatory policy will ultimately increase beyond the spring and maybe for the whole season that would not be a popular concept for our fragile rural economy. Thank you for all who preserve the recommendations and shame on the few who cannot, their shortsighted outlook will bring everyone down and cost jobs throughout Scotland’s river systems.
The Lower Tay below Stanley were seeing more fish recorded again this past week, also the beats just above the Stanley area were doing well as fish continue to race up the system and older fish drop back towards the Almond, Shochie and Ordie system. This part of the river is holding a lot of fish currently. Almondmouth are catching more fish, as it is a barometer at this time of year of fish running the river. They caught 37 and fish are being caught on the Stormont Angling club water as well encouraging everyone. Lower Redgorton, Waulkmill, Upper Redgorton and Fishponds also registered fish in reasonable numbers despite hard conditions with over 30 caught between them in the week with more fish running and showing. Lower Redgorton had a reasonable week with James McKay and Francois Stoven catching a few fish. Waulkmill also worked away with Arnot McWhinnie, Brian Williams, John Stewart and Brian Gordon. On Luncarty Richard Oliver and Kenny Scott caught on the spinner. Sandra Robbins and Roddy McKay caught on fly at Upper Redgorton. At Stanley Upper Scone and Stanley Fishings had to work hard for their fish during the week.
Peter Varney started the week off well with a 13 pounds fish on the fly from the Long Shot at Benchil.
Mick Behan, Ros Downes and Jeremy Foster all caught as well from both beats. David Brown finished the week with a lovely sea liced fish from the Plain Water on a red Devon. Stobhall and Taymount found life hard going despite the later having 6 on Tuesday. Ballathie and Cargill had better weeks with some good teenage fish and Ballathie having 2 days of 5 fish. It was a week of hard fishing at Cargill bringing some success for their anglers. Linda Frost and Ian Muir caught on the fly. Ron Davison had a nice silver 8 pounds fish and Robert King landed a fresh 7 pounds fish from the Sands.
The biggest fish of the week was a 15 pounds fish landed by Ian Jefferson on a Toby. Islamouth had a quiet week and Upper Isalmouth and Meikleour faired a bit better with 9 fish.
The week stared well with Donald Gow catching two small grilse on the fly. This was quickly followed with a 6 pounds fish for Mr. John Campbell from the House Pool.
Malcolm Anderson added to the total with a fifth fish. This fish was from the Tunnel Hole and weighed 12 pounds. Later in the week Eric Marszol and Mr Chalmers caught on spinners up to 6 pounds.

The Middle river is fishing reasonably well with consistent catches with a settled river improving prospects.
Kercock had another reasonable week with 12 fish and no shortage of fish on the beat taking their season total to over 200. Murthly and Glendelvine had a quieter week with 5 fish.
Newtyle had a similar week with 6 fish which include 5 on Tuesday. David Cronshaw caught a 12 pounds fish on the fly from the Boil.
Young Cameron Henderson caught his first ever Salmon, a clean Grilse on a Salmo from the boat.
78 year old Bill Holden was successful with the fly from the Boil.
Jamie Simpson landed fish from the Boil and Fiddlers, both on the fly up to 14 pounds. Dunkeld had a better week with a few fish despite very bright conditions.
Richard Goodwin caught 3 fish on fly up to 12 pounds. Kevin McLeod and Bill Walker caught further fish again on fly up to 18 pounds.
Dalmarnock carried on their good recent run with another successful week. Alan Watson was one of the successful rods during the week. Dalguise and the Kinnaird beats also caught a few fish.

The Tummel is continuing to produce odd fish as fish make their way up to Pitlochry dam and through it with the counter is now showing over 5365.

The Upper areas are seeing fish on their beats. Three salmon were reported from the Farleyer and Findynate beats as they run up to Loch Tay.

On Loch Tay fish are running and must be staring to go up the Dochart but nothing was reported last week.

The Isla is seeing salmon run and caught however no fish were registered.

The Ericht is also seeing fish run but need bigger water now with 2 reported.

The Earn were also seeing salmon and Sea Trout run however no fish were recorded this week. Sport has picked up at the bottom of the river as well.

The Salmon fishing season is now well into Autumn and expectation remains high after great catches recently and poor overall catches last year. Late spring catches have been tremendous and June continued to encourage everyone after fish were caught in the system in continuing better numbers. Rain is now forecast and fresh water on the way will hopefully encourage more salmon to run the river and catches will sore with lots of resident fish in many beats so let us hope with improving conditions the river will have a great last few days of the season. Tight lines!

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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