(River Tay weekly report week ending 31st August 2024) We have now moved into September, which can potentially be a productive month on many of Scotland's salmon rivers, including the mighty Tay. Looking around us, the landscape is changing. The leaves on the trees...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 24th August 2024) We are moving towards the end of August with the traditional summer salmon fishing season in Scotland drawing to a close. It has been an excellent summer season on the Tay this year with anglers enjoying good...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 17th August 2024) It was a lively start to last week, with thunderstorms impacting much of Scotland on Monday morning. These produced heavy rain but were short lived. This led to a lift in water at the beginning of last week. There...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 10th August 2024) We have moved into August and are well into the summer salmon fishing season on the River Tay. So far this summer, the Tay system has produced decent numbers of fish week after week, even when river levels have...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 3rd August 2024) We have now moved into August and are well into the second half of the Scottish summer. It has certainly felt summer like in recent days, with temperatures widely in the early twenties, especially during the first...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 27th July 2024) We are now moving towards the end of July and the River Tay continues to produce the goods. It is not only that decent numbers of fish have been caught in recent weeks but also that the quality of fish being caught...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 20th July 2024) We are now moving towards the end of July. Over the past few days, it has felt more like summer as temperatures have risen to more seasonable norms. The mercury hit the low twenties across some parts of Perthshire...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 13th July 2024) It was another week of unseasonably cool temperatures for mid-July. There was also a spell of heavy rain on Tuesday as a low pressure system drifted up from the south, leading to a slight lift in water. Despite the...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 6th July 2024) We are now moving towards the middle of July. Thankfully, summer has been on holiday so far this year, making fishing conditions much more favourable for anglers. June remained quite cool, with temperatures well...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 29th June 2024) We move into July next week and are now in the height of the Scottish summer. July is a special time of year to be out on the river. If there is decent water and weather conditions are favourable, fishing can often...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 22nd June 2024) The summer solstice has now come and gone and we are currently in the midst of the Scottish summer with July almost upon us. However it would be fair to say that we have not seen much of a summer so far in Scotland...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 15th June 2024) We have now moved into mid-June but it seems like nobody told the weather that! Last week, we saw more unseasonably cool weather with a northerly wind dominating, especially at the beginning of the week. This led to...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 8th June 2024) We are now moving towards mid-June and hopefully, in the days and weeks ahead, the summer run on the River Tay will begin to gain momentum. There have already been a few grilse and larger summer salmon caught from...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 1st June 2024) We have now moved into June, which marks the beginning of the summer salmon fishing season across Scotland. Grilse and summer salmon will hopefully start running our rivers in increasing numbers in the next few...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 25th May 2024) We are moving towards the end of May, which marks the end of the spring salmon fishing season across Scotland. This, of course, does not mean that fresh springers cannot still be caught. Early June can often be a...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 18th May 2024) There are now only two weeks of the spring season remaining as we are into mid-May. Last week, thankfully, temperatures dropped a little compared to those of the previous weekend when warm southerly winds led to the...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 11th May 2024) We are now moving into mid-May, and the signs of spring are all around us to see. It is getting gradually warmer and river levels are beginning to drop. It certainly felt spring like across Perthshire towards the...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 4th May 2024) We have now moved into mid-May, which is a prime spring month on many Scottish rivers. Before our eyes, the seasons are changing as we move deeper into spring. With the days getting longer, it is only a matter of...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 27th April 2024) We are now moving towards the end of April, which is traditionally a prime time for spring salmon fishing on many of Scotland’s rivers. Usually, spring catches build from early March and peak over the next few...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 20th April 2023) We have now moved into mid-April and it seems like an age since we had a settled spell of weather. The recent heavy rain and strong winds have been relentless over the past two months, leading to very unsettled...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 13th April 2024) We are now moving into the middle of April and as each day passes, more hard fighting spring salmon should be running the Tay system. Over the next few weeks, we should be coming into the prime spring period on the...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 6th April 2024) We moved into April last week and the Scottish weather continued similarly to previous weeks, with low pressure systems racing in from the Atlantic, bringing periods of heavy rain and strong winds. On Friday...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 30th March 2024) We are now moving into April and are entering what should be the prime spring period on the Tay system for many beats, especially on the middle river. In the next few weeks, the number of fish heading up the main...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 23rd March 2024) We are now moving towards the end of March and as each day passes, hopefully, more hard fighting spring salmon will be running the Tay system. Over the next few weeks, we should be entering the prime spring period...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 16th March 2024) We have now moved into the middle of March and are well into the spring salmon fishing season on the Tay. Hopefully, as each week goes by, more pods of fresh spring salmon will enter the Tay system, ensuring...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 9th March 2024) We are now moving towards the middle of March and as each day passes there should be more hard fighting spring salmon running the Tay system. Over the next few weeks, we should be coming up to the prime spring...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 2nd March 2024) We have now moved into March and this is often when many anglers decide to pick up a rod for the first time in the new season. In March, the days get notably longer and the weather improves. Usually, more fresh fish...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 24th February 2024) Some fine fish have been caught from the Tay system in recent weeks, with the quality of salmon being landed second to none, which has been great to see. Last week was no different, with some cracking springers...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 3rd February 2024) We moved into February last week and are now thankfully into the final month of winter. So far, it has been a relatively mild winter, apart from three weeks in January when it was bitterly cold. However, as we...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 27th January 2024) It was the second full week of the season on the River Tay last week and the weather was quite unsettled. Two named storms hit Scotland and led to the river rising significantly, and this put pay to any...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 20th January 2024) A new season again dawned on the mighty River Tay as anglers made their first casts of the year last Monday. Mr Paul Whitehouse opened the river at Meikleour and the official opening ceremony was well attended....
(River Tay weekly report week ending 14th October 2023) The River Tay finally closed its banks to anglers on Saturday. The weather was typically autumnal fare last week for mid-October with some blustery showers and temperatures also fluctuated. After a reasonably...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 7th October 2023) We are now moving towards the end of the salmon fishing season on the Tay system. Last week was the penultimate week of the fishing season and it was another week of unsettled water with multiple lifts in water...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 30th September 2023) We move into October next week and are now into the twilight of the 2023 Tay salmon fishing season. It was another week of unsettled weather and water levels last week. There was heavy rain last Sunday and this...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 23rd September 2023) We have now moved into the middle of September and there are only three weeks of the Tay salmon fishing season remaining. It would be fair to say that it has been a tough season on many rivers across Scotland...
Tactics for the River Tay during the autumn period (September and October) (River Tay weekly report week ending 16th September 2023) We moved deeper in autumn last week and the signs were there for all to see. The weather had a distinctly autumnal feel to proceedings...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 9th September 2023) We have now moved into September and the first month of autumn. However, the weather was far from autumnal last week with high pressure influencing our weather. There were long sunny spells coupled with light...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 2nd September 2023) We have now moved into September and this can potentially be a productive month on many of Scotland's salmon rivers including the mighty Tay. Looking around us, the landscape is changing. The leaves on the trees...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 26th August 2023) We are now moving towards the end of August with the traditional summer salmon fishing season in Scotland drawing to a close. In years gone by, September and October have been prime months on the River Tay and...
(River Tay weekly report week ending 19th August 2023) The vast majority of the Scottish public will have been disappointed with the weather on offer during the summer months especially in July and during the first half of August but the anglers amongst us have been...