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.

Week Commencing 12th April – Sunny days and sealiced springers

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Springtime finally arrived on Speyside and things are hotting up!  With a week of beautiful weather and long sunny days, both air and water temperatures were on there rise – Time for a floating line and a light dressed fly.

Colin Mathieson with 1 of his 2 fish from Rothes – on a floating line and a size 8 cascade.

River heights – 6in – 1ft (+/- 2in)
Water Temps – 39-44F or 4-6C
Air temps – 0-14C

The start of the week was quite slow with only an odd fish caught, but catches picked up over the 2nd half of the week with fresh, sealiced fish making an appearance in the lower beats.

With water temps now heading to the mid 40s, I’d expect some of these sealiced fish to be heading to the upper beats. Abernethy AC has already started catching and I would suspect Grantown Ass may have had a fish or two over the last few days also. However, the lower river was the place to be last week.

Catch Summary
Upper River  – 4 fish reported – Abernethy
Middle River – 9 fish reported – Kinermony (2), Knockando (5), Craigellachie (2)
Lower River – 21 fish reported –  Orton (5), Rothes (7) Arndilly (8), Upper Arndilly (1)
Average size – around 10lb. Biggest fish reported 20lbs

I also heard some more big sea trout were caught.

Here’s a few snaps from the beats.

Looking ahead to this coming week

Weather looks settled and no precipitation forecast. River levels will continue to fall slowly and I would think water temperatures will hover around the mid 40s. It looks like another nice week to be on the river.

With travel restrictions now removed it’s time to get out and about and chase silver again.

Tightlines to all.

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