Fluctuations and not Cycles. Massive Decline in salmon Runs across Scotland in 2018! When did it [the decline] begin? OK, I've heard so...

I've just came across this from 1994 in my computer. Lack of Juveniles Dear Sir, As numbers of salmon and grilse returning to UK Rivers...

The end for the “Business” of salmon fishing in Scotland as we know it. Or is it?? The graph above shows he impact of Smolt releasing on...

How Tackle and fewer Salmon has changed fishing.

10 years in organising and hosting fishing holidays, running fly casting and fishing courses and being connected to what is the world's...

I had a lovely day in the company of Ian Neale www.speycaster.net on one of the beats he manages on the River Findhorn yesterday. I have...

What makes a good fishing holiday? Plenty of fish? Good company? Nice beat? Relaxation? Good service? So, given the numbers of fish we...

What, After Catch and Release? A recent e mail sent to me by an American client in reply to a film I posted in a recent blog -...

The middle week of March is often “Ghillies Week” on Tulchan, so the week is given by the estate to the Ghillies to invite their friends...

A lovely day with friends on the river yesterday and a conversation with a certain estate factor yesterday, reinforced to me the need for...

It looks like, after nearly 40 years of harping on about the river not producing enough juveniles, new research on the River Dee has...

For ease of reading, my answers to Tony's questions to the last post - Lost at Sea, are in red. A REPLY TO IAN GORDON after viewing the...

A recent comment left on one of my film clips on You Tube interested me greatly as to what exactly it is people are looking for when...

I saw this film and thought it had some very good points. Orri Vigfússon - Government and scientists refuse to believe, by killing too...

Matching your double handed or Spey rod with the correct line. The late 1990s saw a massive leap forward with regard fly line design,...

The correlation between weather and food in the ocean and the effect on Atlantic Salmon.

For many years I wrote the Trout and Salmon monthly report for the Spey and have just came across some old ones. Over the next weeks I'll...

Who would be a Ghillie?! How many people can put their hand on heart and say they look forward to Monday? Who can honestly say “My day...

Why I take my clients abroad to fish for salmon.

2017 season comes to an end on the Spey. They say the older you get, the quicker time seems to pass! Not that I’m too old yet, but my...