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Fishing News for Rivers Dee, Findhorn, Spey, and Avon - Season 2010 Latest Report Fishing News Update, August 17th, 2010 I am delighted to report that since my last update, runs of salmon and grilse continue to stream into the River Findhorn and therefore, fishing sport on the fabulous Findhorn continues to show no sign of slowing down. It seems that we have been blessed with continued unsettled weather and periods of heavy rain just keep topping up river levels from week to week and the fish keep coming!
On Thursday, July 29th, I was joined by the Mark Wilton-Steer party, which included his son Ollie, Chris Ponting and Mark Leach travelling up from the South of England. River levels had fallen back somewhat and reading 8" on the Forres gauge and 2" at Shenachie. It was another cloudy overcast day and raining heavily earlier in the day. However, fishing was really much slower and it was quieter on all beats with just a few fish running in Palamore and Roehillock Pools.
By Saturday, July 31st, water levels had fallen again, reading 7" at Forres and 2" on the Shenachie gauge. The weather was feeling a little warmer with a mixture of sunshine and showers. However, there were still good numbers of fish running through and everyone enjoyed some good sport. Mark Wilton-Steer managed to hook a grilse of 3 lbs. from William's Run on a size 8 Cascade. Chris Ponting hooked and landed another 3 lb. grilse from Palamore Pool on a size 8 Purple Cascade. Later on and Mark Leach hooked a cracking fresh grilse of around 5 lbs. from the Scur Pool. Bob McIntyre also hooked and released another grilse of around 4 lbs. from the neck of the Roehillock Pool on a size 8 Cascade fished on a 5' Poly Leader sink tip. As we moved into early August, the River Findhorn continued to fish really well with excellent runs of grilse and some larger summer salmon were starting to show up. On Monday, August 9th, I was back on the Altyre Estate and after a somewhat drier spell river levels were reading just 4" on the Forres gauge and 1" at Shenachie. Therefore, after several weeks of really excellent levels and conditions, we were suddenly in need of rain fall to top up the river levels and encourage more fresh fish to move into the river. We weren't going to have to wait very long though! It was very quiet on all beats and very few fish seen by my guests all day. On Tuesday,
August 10th, the river was rising once again and reading 1' on the Forres
gauge and 6" at Shenachie. It was another cloudy and overcast day,
feeling much cooler than of late. The river was looking in excellent order
on both Upper and Lower Beats and we were seeing another run of fish showing
in Roehillock, Palamore and Roan Pools. On Wednesday, August 11th, river levels were reading 1'1" at Forres and 11" up at the Shenachie gauge and rising! I was feeling a little fearful that we might be going to get a little more water than we had hoped for! However, levels and conditions remained in excellent order for the morning, although the river levels started to rise and sport was good. Colin McDonald hooked and released a sea-liced grilse of around 5 lbs. from Palamore Pool on a size 8 Flame thrower. I.N. hooked another small grilse of around 3 lb. from the tail of Roehillock Pool on size 6 Orjok. A little later on just after lunch and I.N. hooked a really superb summer salmon of around 11 lbs. and dripping with long-tailed sea-lice, once again from the tail of Roehillock Pool and once again on a size 6 Orjok double. By around 3:00 p.m., I could see that the levels were continuing to rise quickly and by late afternoon it was all over. My guests were completely washed off, as the river turned dirty and totally unfishable. On Thursday
August 12th, I was joined by Charles and Hattie Helmore, who were fishing
the Findhorn for their first time. Unfortunately, river levels remained
very high and still looking very dirty, reading 3'3" at Forres and
1'8" at Shenachie and rising!
By Saturday,
August 14th and at last things were settling down and the river was reading
2'9" at Forres and 1'8" at Shenachie and falling. The weather
had also settled down and feeling a little cooler with a North Westerly
breeze. I was also joined by Doug McKendrick from Elgin who had been given
a gift voucher by his wife Helen for a special birthday treat to spend
a day on the river with I.N. and learn the great art of Spey casting.
He had no experience of salmon fishing, having only done some trout fishing
earlier in his life. However, he was a fast learner and soon took to Spey
casting and within an hour I had him casting a manageable line over Palamore
Pool. We met up
with Charles and Hattie who had been fishing below us on the Roan Pool,
but had not caught a fish, despite seeing fish showing in the tail of
the pool. After lunch, I took Hattie down to the Palamore Pool and within
a couple of casts she soon hooked into a fish, which took off and quickly
threw the hooks. Just to let everyone know, Ian and Lady B have moved to a fabulous new location right by the River Findhorn and our contact details are as follows: Bradbush, Darnaway, Forres, Moray IV36 2SU, Scotland Telephone: 01309 641658 ~ Current Availabilities ~ We really have some first class fishing on offer for 2010: On the Findhorn we have availabilities from July through September on Altyre Estate and Glenferness Estate. We have availability on Altyre Estate from September 27th-29th for two rods. On Glenferness Estate, we have availability for two rods September 20th-25th. On the River Dee, we have availability for two rods at Park Estate on August 31st. We also have a fantastic late season opportunity for up to four rods fishing on Crathes from September 30th-October 1st, 2010. Should you be interested in booking up some excellent guided fishing on prime beats of the Rivers Dee (Aberdeenshire), Findhorn, and Spey, please contact Ian@speycaster.net for further information and dates. If you feel like taking the trip of a lifetime, then we have availabilities for catching those magnificent Fall run salmon on one of our annual trips to the Ryabaga Camp on the Ponoi River, Kola Penninsula in August or September, 2010. ~ Fishing Gift Vouchers ~ Are you looking for a gift idea for that special person in your life or for the person who has everything, you may like to take advantage of purchasing a bespoke E-mail Gift Voucher? For your special occasion shopping needs, we can provide a personalised gift voucher for a guided fishing trip with Ian Neale, which can be the perfect solution to meet your needs. It can be for one to three day's speycasting tuition, or towards a fully inclusive fly fishing holiday or break on one of those exclusive private beats on the Rivers Findhorn, Spey, Avon, or the Aberdeenshire Dee. Gift
vouchers can be just the perfect gift for a Husband, Wife, Father, Mother,
Son, Daughter, or other relative, friend or business associate.
A fly fishing gift voucher makes the perfect surprise present and is flexible for a date to be mutually arranged and being valid for anytime throughout the fishing season. When you buy your gift voucher, you can call to book the date yourself or the recipient may call to schedule their own arrangements. Please contact ian@speycaster.net for further information on dates and prices. Please note: Fishing season on the River Dee begins on February 1st and ends October 15th; and the fishing season on the Rivers Findhorn, Spey, and Avon begins on February 11th and ends September 30th. ~
Speycaster
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Fishing News Update, July 23rd, 2010 As we slowly moved through the last couple of weeks of June, the rivers fell away as high pressure took a firm grip over the country and we were thrown into something of a heat wave! Therefore, for many beats fishing on the Rivers Findhorn, Dee and Spey, it was a case of fishing early and late with a variety of tiny flies or hitched tubes to achieve any kind of success. I was fishing up on the Banchor Beat on the river Findhorn with two of my regular clients, Simon Lewin and Paul Humphries from June 24th-26th.
Banchor is always a delightful beat to be fishing and tucked miles away on the Middle Findhorn accommodating two rods. On Thursday, June 24th, the river was reading 0" on the Shenachie gauge and 2" at Forres. It was a cloudy and breezy day with the promise of rain in the air, but unfortunately it came to nothing. The fishing was very slow and very few fish were to be seen. I had heard that despite the low water conditions, that pods of fresh multi-sea winter salmon were still running through from the Sea Pool and moving swiftly upstream through the hours of darkness. Lethen and Glenferness had reported several sea-liced fish being caught on some of their beats just below us at Banchor. So, I was still hopeful that we might see some fish coming through from these beats. By Friday, June 25th, the river was still reading 0" at Shenachie and it was another very warm and overcast day, with very little breeze. However, there seemed to be the slightest improvement in river flow and maybe there had been just a small amount of rain up in the catchment on the previous day. Another improvement was the fact that a run of fish had indeed moved into the beat and we were seeing some really lovely fresh silver salmon showing in the Buck and Grave Pools. Despite all offerings of hitched tubes, Sunray Shadows and smaller conventional flies, these fish were simply not interested! Later on, we moved a little further downstream to the Throat of the Cow Pool, which again was alive with fresh fish showing throughout the neck of the pool, including one of at least 15lbs!
I started Paul in at the very neck of the pool and fishing a shortish line with a small 1" Sunray Shadow fished over the surface and slowly retrieving the fly very square. I was perched up higher above the pool and with a direct view down below me. As Paul moved slowly down and below me, we both saw a large fish come up from the depths and just nudged the fly and then sunk back into the deep pool. We gave the pool a rest for a few minutes and then Paul started again. Within a couple of casts, either the same fish or another came up at the fly, turned with a flash of silver and disappeared once again. Exciting stuff, but a little frustrating not to get a proper take from the fish! After all this excitement and with fish showing quite regularly, it suddenly went dead and we didn't see or move another fish. On Saturday
June 26th, the weather cleared and it became extremely sunny and warm.
With the river falling away and with the brighter conditions, it was very
quiet throughout the beat and the fish that we had seen on the previous
day, seemed to have disappeared and may well have run on up and into the
Drynachan Beats above us. As we moved into early July, I was getting reports of some big numbers of grilse and salmon getting stacked up in Findhorn Bay and with river levels reading 0" on all gauges. We were in desperate need of rainfall to rise the river levels and get these fish moving into the river system. It was also very heartening to see that the summer run of grilse had arrived spot on time this year, but water was really desperately needed now. The weekend of July 4th-5th started to see a change in the weather and we seemed to be losing the high pressure at last and weather forecasters were predicting an unsettled period over the forthcoming weeks. Luckily, the boys at the Met Office had got it right and for the week commencing July 6th, we saw a small rise in river levels on the Findhorn, which allowed the start of this big run to move into the system and up into the Middle Beats. Lethen and Glenferness enjoyed some much improved sport over that week and Lethen were able to report their best week of the season so far with twenty-three fish caught. Little did anyone realise what was coming for the following week commencing July 12th, as river levels continued to rise as the unsettled weather continued to throw more rainfall over the river Findhorn catchment. By Monday
July 12th, the Findhorn was reading a respectable 1'3" on the Forres
gauge and looking in excellent order. The weather remained overcast and
cloudy with further heavy rain falling by the afternoon. I was fishing
on Altyre Estate on the lower river with a party of rods for the week
and it was really heartening to see so many fish showing in all pools,
even though some of these fish seemed to be intent on moving upstream
at quite a pace! By Tuesday
July 13th, the river had fallen back and was reading 6" at Forres
and 7" on the Shenachie gauge, high up in the hills on Cawdor Estate.
The weather remained cloudy, feeling much warmer and the river started
to rise to around 1' by late morning. On July 14th, the river had fallen back to 7" on the Forres gauge and 3" at Shenachie and looking in good order especially on the Upper Beat. I was joined by casting guru and fishing tackle purveyor, Nick Armstead from Gamefish in Edinburgh and Roland Robinson from Advie. Fish were still showing in Soldier's Hole, but they were unable to connect. I.N. hooked and released a sea-liced grilse of around 4 lbs. from the tail of Roehillock on a size 8 Purple Cascade. Throughout the day we saw good runs of fish coming through Roehillock, Roan and Soldier's Hole, but no other fish were hooked. By July 15th
and I should just mention, "St. Swithen's Day", the river was
reading 6" on the Forres gauge and 5" at Shenachie. The weather
was, needless to say, pouring all day! It finally cleared by late afternoon,
but I had a feeling that it would not take too long before the river started
to rise once again. On Friday
16th and the river was reading 2'1" at Forres and 8" at the
Shenachie gauge and falling. However, further heavy rain continued to
pour throughout the morning and it became seriously windy as the day progressed.
The river started to fall away for a little while, but by the evening
was starting to rise yet again. Conditions really looked very good and
I.N. managed to hook a lively fat sea trout of around 3 lbs. from the
tail of Palamore Island on a size 6 Orjok. By Saturday
17th July and the river was reading 2' 3" at Forres and 10"
on the Shenachie gauge, falling away with excellent clarity. It had been a most enjoyable week and every one of my guests had enjoyed some good sport. It had indeed been something of a record on many of the other beats on the Findhorn with good catches being recorded. Looking at the Fish Findhorn catches I see that the six subscribing beats who report their catches reported a total of 193 salmon/grilse for the week, which is truly impressive and indeed, very welcome. So far, it has been yet another very wet week up here in this part of the Highlands with higher river levels for much of the week and therefore, I am hopeful that we should see another good week of Summer sport on all rivers in this part of the World. ~
Speycaster
Photo Albums ~ >>To view images of our growing online photo library which covers the prime beats we fish on the River Findhorn, River Dee, River Spey, River Avon, and Ponoi River, please click here. Fishing News Update, June 15th, 2010 Since my last update, I am delighted to report that the fishing has been picking up pace on the Findhorn and we have seen some good runs of 2MSW Spring salmon moving into the river system. I was fishing up on one of my favourite high water beats, Mini Daltra on Glenferness Estate for a couple of days last week.
After further heavy rain throughout Tuesday night the river was running very high on Wednesday June 9th and reading 2'2" on the Shenachie gauge and looking somewhat on the dirty side. However, by Thursday June 10th the river had fallen back and was reading 10" at Shenachie and 2'1" at Forres and looking in excellent order with perfect clarity. I decided
to head back for the Island Pool on Mini Daltra and waded in at the neck
of the pool. I decided to try a size 6 Orjok double fished on the 5' Poly
leader fast sink tip. As the fly swung round across the stream, I soon
got a solid pull and had hooked a really cracking fresh salmon of around
8 lbs. and still with sea lice on its' head and gill covers. I moved back
into the pool at the same spot and hooked another fish which was slightly
larger and after a good fight and a lot of head shaking, managed to shake
itself off! A short while after and in exactly the same lie, I hooked
a third fish, which was a little coloured and around the 7 lb. mark. This
had been a really great day so far and I was feeling extremely content
with my morning's work! I decided to make a move back downstream and after a few casts back in the Secret Spot without a touch, thought that I should go and try my luck elsewhere before heading off home. I walked back up the top and wondered whether I should go and take a look at the Garden Pool, which is another one of my real favourites in high water. It had been a great day so far and as I stood at the top and looked down the sixty four steps leading to the Garden, wondered if it was going to be worth it, as I had already burned off a few calories! However, it didn't take me long to decide and so I headed on down the steep slope and down towards the pool. By now, the weather had made a dramatic turn around and it had become very bright and sunny and again I was having a few doubts as to whether my luck was going to hold. However, just after starting in at the top of the pool, I saw a large fish show well down the pool and on my side and thought I might just have a chance here after all. I was about three quarters of the way down the pool and sure enough, I got another solid pull from a fish which turned out to be a slightly coloured fish of around 7 lbs. and after a good fight was also quickly returned to the water.
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Speycaster
Photo Albums ~ >>To view images of our growing online photo library which covers the prime beats we fish on the River Findhorn, River Dee, River Spey, River Avon, and Ponoi River, please click here. Fishing News Update, June 2nd, 2010 As we moved into late April, river levels and conditions remained generally very good, with ample supplies of snow melt water keeping the rivers topped up. However, despite the good fishing conditions and river levels, the numbers of Spring salmon moving into the River Findhorn was somewhat disappointing overall.
Later in the evening of Saturday April 17th, Colin MacDonald hooked into a large salmon in the Roan Pool, which after a long hard fight finally threw the hooks right at the net! However, Colin returned on April 19th and was finally rewarded with another fresh cock salmon of around 15 lbs., which was hooked on a 2" Garry Dog tube fly fished on a poly leader fast sink tip line. As we moved
into the week commencing April 26th, river levels held up really well
and as the weather warmed up, the snow melt from the Monadhliath Mountains
continued to seep into the river. For the week
commencing May 3rd, river levels remained fairly steady with a small rise
later in the week after some heavy rain falling on Tuesday, 4th May. As we moved
into the week commencing May 10th, river levels were again fairly steady,
reading 9" on the Forres gauge and 4" on the Shenachie gauge.
By the week commencing May 24th, the river had fallen away and reading 1" on the Shenachie gauge and 5" on the Forres gauge. I was up on the Drynachan water on Cawdor Estate on Tuesday 24th May with Patrick Burns and Neil Cameron. On the way up to the beat, I bumped into Roddy Forbes, who told me that one of the other rods had caught two fish from the Bridge Pool, Daless Beat on the Monday. As we were
on Daless Beat, I decided to take Patrick and Neil to the Bridge Pool
first to see if we could entice a fish here. Meanwhile, on May 27th and fishing further downstream on Altyre, my friend Nick Armstead from Edinburgh entered the Findhorn hall of fame, by catching the smallest salmon of the season from Palamore Pool, or was it a very well grown smolt! Then on Friday May 28th, Roland Robinson hooked and released a cracking fresh sea-liced salmon of around 9 lbs. from the neck of the Roehillock Pool on a size 10 Cascade fished on a full floating line. ~
Speycaster
Photo Albums ~ >>To view images of our growing online photo library which covers the prime beats we fish on the River Findhorn, River Dee, River Spey, River Avon, and Ponoi River, please click here Fishing News Update, April 17th 2010 Since my last update in March, we have experienced just about all kinds of weather and water conditions! It has indeed been very frustrating and many days fishing have been lost due to extreme Winter weather and high water levels. The week commencing March 22nd, I was back on Altyre Estate with some good old fishing friends, Max Fraser, Don Griffin, "Wee" Brian Taylor and Des Dunlop, who were fishing on Altyre for the first three days of the week. River levels on the Monday were really superb and reading 1'11" and rising on the Forres gauge. It was a really good fishing day with settled weather conditions, bright, sunny and quite mild for the time of year. In the afternoon, it was Brian Taylor who got the week off to a good start with a cracking little fish of around 7 lbs. and covered in sea lice. The fish was hooked on a 1 1/2"Sunray Shadow aluminium tube fished deep on a Wet Cel 2 sinking line in the tail of Palamore Island Pool.
By Thursday March 25th, I was joined by other regular clients, Peter Grimwade and Colin Brook, also Franco Sirtori from Italy and Giorgio Soldini from Switzerland who were both fishing the fabulous Findhorn for their first visit.
By Friday, March 26th, the river had fallen away and was reading 1'8" on the Forres gauge and rising. It was another cloudy day with rain showers falling on and off, but very few fish, except a couple in Palamore Island were to be seen all day.
By Monday, March 29th, I was back on Park Estate, South Bank on the River Dee, with Jim Pool who had been booked as a birthday gift voucher surprise by his wife Jo. It was simply a glorious day with bright sunshine, little breeze and the river was looking good at 29" on the Park gauge. This was
Jim's first attempt at Speycasting and salmon fishing and he certainly
took to it very quickly. By the afternoon I had him casting off his left
and right arm with ease. Unfortunately, fishing was very slow and there
was only one fish caught of around 19 lbs. off both banks throughout the
day! Therefore, by Tuesday, March 30th, conditions had indeed deteriorated and we were thrown into the "Perfect Storm" with severely strong north easterly winds blowing into our faces, lashings of rain, sleet and snow and I think one of the coldest days I have ever experienced on any river in this part of the World! Jim braved the elements and despite the ferocity of the gale, did extremely well to hook a well mended kelt in the Greenbanks Pool, just before lunch. It was only a kelt, but this was his first ever Atlantic salmon and he was clearly delighted, indeed; and so was I, especially in those atrocious conditions! I was due to fish myself the following day, Wednesday, March 31st, with a friend of mine from Edinburgh. However, after a lengthy phone call, we both decided that with blizzard warnings in force; that it would be fool hardy to try and brave the weather elements and I decided to head for home! I must say that it was one of the best decisions, as on the following day the weather was just appalling as several feet of snow fell over the North East of Scotland and the Highlands. Nearly all main roads were either closed or blocked on that Wednesday and virtually all traffic came to a stand still until the snow ploughs could clear the roads of drifting snow. The snow continued to fall over the area on April 1st and I gather that some 3-5 feet had fallen in many parts of the Highlands and access to many rivers and beats was impossible for a couple of days until access tracks could be cleared.
On Thursday, April 8th, I was joined by another of my other regular clients, Andrew Shaw from Oxfordshire. The river was still high and reading 3'5"on the Forres gauge, although the clarity was much improved. Andrew managed to move and pull a fish on a Purple Cascade tube fly first time down through Palamore Island Pool, which just came for the fly as he was lifting into the next cast!
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Speycaster
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Fishing News Update, March 19th 2010 First of all, I apologise for the lack of "Fishing News" of late, but sadly there really hasn't been very much to report on, except the weather! As I mentioned in my earlier report in February, we have experienced the Winter of Winters and just when we thought it was safe to go into the water, back it came again with severe ferocity! However,
I was actually getting quite excited and enthusiastic about the prospects
on February 14th, just after the Findhorn season had opened. I was delighted
to receive an email from James Holder late on Saturday afternoon with
his glowing report that he had caught a magnificent fresh Spring salmon
from the Red Craig Pool on the Forres AA water at around 3:30 p.m. He
and his father had been fishing and said that it was a fantastic afternoon
and the weather was quite pleasant on the river. They had noticed several
kelts showing in the Stoney and Newton Pools before moving up to the Red
Craig, where his dad caught a kelt in the Rack on a Snelda. By Monday 16th February and with river levels holding nicely at 1' 11" on the Forres gauge, the weather was really pleasant and with no wind, so I was feeling optimistic of catching a fish on Altyre Estate. I went down to the Roan Pool on the Lower Beat and put up my 15 ft. Bruce and Walker Norway, with an intermediate line and a 5 ft. Poly leader, slow sink tip and a 1" Orjok copper tube fly. On the third cast I got a really great take and the line pulled away and off the reel. I was soon playing a hard fighting fresh cock salmon of around 14 lbs., which took off down the pool and eventually, I was able to beach and release my first salmon of the season. This was the only pull of the day, despite fishing the pool several more times, but I am always delighted to get an early Spring salmon in February; what an absolute pleasure! I heard from Moray Estates that one of their tenants fishing on Darnaway, Meads Beat had also reported another fresh fish of around 10 lbs. and released. So, suddenly within a few days, things were starting to happen on the Findhorn and that's where it all came to a grinding halt, as the weather soon began to return to Winter, once again.
As we moved into the first week of March, the freezing conditions and heavy lying snow made fishing almost impossible once again on most rivers in the Highlands. However, by the end of the week the weather began to feel slightly milder and at last the ice and grue slowly began to melt away and thus, at least it was possible to cast a fly into the river.
River levels fell away over the next few days and no other fish were seen or hooked on any other beats. Then, as the week progressed, the weather changed again and this time we started to see milder conditions prevail. The warm Spring sunshine soon began to melt the overlying snow and river levels began to rise dramatically over the last couple of days of that week, and no other fish were seen or hooked. Finally, the week commencing March 14th has seen the river running at continued higher levels as the warmer weather continues to melt the snow at an alarming rate, therefore, fishing this last week has been impossible. The river levels at Forres have never fallen below the three feet mark all week! It seems hard to believe that just a few weeks ago we were shivering with sub zero conditions with below summer levels; and now we are basking in warm sunshine with higher than normal river levels and fishing is really hopeless.
STOP PRESS . February 9th, 2010
Fishing News Update, February 8th, 2010 After what has now been classified as the coldest December and January on record, a new dawn broke over Deeside in Aberdeenshire on February 1, 2010. The river
was reading 24 inches on the Park gauge with perfect water clarity and
water temperature was just over 32 degrees Fahrenheit. With such perfect
conditions on opening day, we were all feeling optimistic of hooking into
one of those glorious Spring salmon. Unfortunately, despite hooking a
small number of kelts, we were denied the feel or sight of that bar of
silver, which was disappointing and indeed the first opening day blank
for many a year at Park Estate. Looking a little further ahead, we are all excited at the prospects of the new season opening on the rivers Spey and Findhorn on this coming Thursday, February 11th. I am feeling particularly optimistic that 2010 could prove to be one of those classic salmon fishing seasons, as the cyclical turnaround for multi-sea winter salmon is generally four years on our rivers. The 2006 season was particularly one of the best fishing seasons on the River Findhorn within the last ten years. Assuming a successful spawning season followed, we hope for some great sport in 2010. As I mentioned earlier in this update, we have seen some huge amounts of snowfall in this part of the Highlands and indeed, the local ski resorts are boasting their best season over thirty years. Therefore, these accumulations of snow combined with severely cold overnight temperatures high up in the corries of the Grampian, Cairngorm and Monadhliath Mountains will have compacted into solid ice. Assuming we do not get a prolonged mild spell, which at this time of year is unlikely, we should expect a slow release of snow melt from the headwaters high up in these mountain ranges. Therefore, with this plentiful supply of snow and ice, I expect that we should see excellent river levels and conditions over the next few months and our Spring sport could be tremendous. I shall be fishing on Altyre Estate, Findhorn over the forthcoming weeks with regular clients and friends and shall be updating the Fishing News Page with the latest reports of our first Spring salmon of 2010. ~
Speycaster
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