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.

Job Vacancy: Director of the Spey Fishery Board

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This exciting opportunity has arisen on one of Scotland’s most famous rivers. The Spey Fishery Board (SFB) is the Statutory Body responsible for the conservation, protection and enhancement of Atlantic salmon and sea trout fisheries throughout the River Spey and its 3,000 km2 catchment.

The SFB are looking for an ambitious, innovative and driven individual who has the ability to take the Spey Fishery Board to the next level as its new Director. In so doing, they will have the passion to help save our iconic Atlantic salmon.

We are looking for a natural leader to join our team. They will be a skilled and constructive communicator, able to devise and implement strategy and engender confidence within their team and the plethora of organisations with which the Board engages.

Based in North-East Scotland, the SFB’s Director will report to the Board’s Chairman and will have responsibility for the executive implementation and representation of all the Board’s wide-ranging strategies and activities. A full job description can be found here and below.

Applications, including a covering letter explaining how the applicant fulfils the job requirements, together with a curriculum vitae, should be submitted to the current Director, Roger Knight, at [email protected] by Tuesday 19th March 2024. Interviews will be held in April, with short-listed candidates invited to a second interview.

Please find out more about this role by viewing the Job Description below:

Job Description

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