Opening Ceremony 2025
Tuesday 11 February, 9am
Come along and watch the Spey begin its new fishing season

As recently announced in the local media, we want to remind all our friends in the local Aberlour and nearby community to come and visit our opening ceremony for 2025. 

We will begin as usual at the Penny Bridge, Alice Littler Park, Aberlour starting at 9am

Richard Anderson will be our Piper for the ceremony and Reverend Donald Walker will give the blessing. We thank them for their support.

Our Guest of Honour this year is John Anderson, who will ‘open’ the river. John, a long-serving ghillie at Tulchan Estate, recently retired after 42 years of service. We wish John every happiness in his retirement. 

Car parking is available and please remember, if you are bringing young children, to supervise them at all times near to the River and within the car parking and surrounding area.

To help celebrate the start of the new salmon fishing season, drams of the new 11yo Aberlour Scottish Oak FInish from the 2024 Distillery Reserve Collection, will be served by the Aberlour Distillery Team.

Hot drinks supplied by the Aberlour Hotel will be offered during the opening ceremony, along with samples of Walkers shortbread.

The Spey Fishery Board is grateful to Aberlour Distillery, Walkers Shortbread and the Aberlour Hotel for their continued generous sponsorship of this event.

About us

The River Spey

Welcome to the River Spey. We are a two organisations who share the same overarching mission: to help wildlife flourish and businesses thrive throughout Speyside. 

The Spey Fishery Board and our charitable organisation, The Spey Foundation work alongside many organisations and businesses throughout the 3000 km2 Spey catchment to improve the natural environment and ensure that our landscape is enhanced and protected for wildlife and future generations.

Find out more about us below.  

The Spey Fishery Board

Our mission is to protect, enhance and conserve Atlantic Salmon and Sea Trout stocks on the River Spey.

The Spey Foundation

The Spey Foundation undertakes research on a range of topics and provide scientific evidence to the Board and Catchment Initiative which they use to base management decisions on. It also runs and supports education projects throughout Speyside.

Our partners and supporters

We work with and are supported by a wide range of organisations and businesses throughout Speyside and the world, to increase our impact.  Below are a small number of the many organisations who help make our work possible. 

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