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Some great action with hard fighting Grilse at Altyre Estate on the River Findhorn on the back of some much needed rainfall in recent weeks.
Video courtesy of David Johnstone : Nairnfly

https://youtu.be/qXCXkA8DmjM?si=Tz0jengiS-Jjg_GD

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After many weeks of low water conditions, we were finally blessed with some decent rainfall recently, over the River Findhorn catchment in North East Scotland. It was encouraging to see some good runs of Summer salmon and Grilse, moving into the river Findhorn system.

Please contact www.speycaster.net for all availability at Altyre Estate on the River Findhorn.

A really enjoyable day of salmon fishing on the River Spey at Speymouth A.A. for our guests, father and son, last Saturday. Ably assisted and guided by David Johnstone (Nairnfly) together with some great video action to boot!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O12xLsRuR8A&t=23s

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As we move through and into the middle of June, our attentions now start to focus on the arrival of the Summer run Salmon and Grilse, moving into the River Findhorn in North East Scotland.

The weather conditions have been a little more unsettled in recent days and there have been some hefty showers and longer spells of rain falling over the River Findhorn catchment, giving river levels a much needed lift!

Over the forthcoming week, there are also some significant high tides and so given some decent water conditions, fresh salmon and grilse will be keen to move in from Findhorn Bay moving into the the lower Findhorn and upstream.

We still have fishing opportunities available for 2 - 4 rods, going through the Summer months on the River Findhorn at Altyre Estate and The Upper Home Beat at Darnaway.

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River levels started at a respectable 8" on the Forres gauge for W/C April 20th and my two guests enjoyed a great 3 days of spring salmon fishing at Altyre Estate, Lower Beat on the River Findhorn with fish up to around 13 lbs caught and released.

Unfortunately, weather conditions changed rapidly, with high pressure in charge and the onset of our first mini heat wave of the season arriving on Thursday! River levels started falling away and the overhead bright sunshine just killed the prospects of catching fish, for the last three days of the week!

Please do contact us as always at www.speycaster.net for further information and availability going through the rest of the season at either Altyre Estate or Upper Home Beat, Darnaway on the River Findhorn.

The W/C April 13th started off with river levels running at just under 2' on the Forres gauge, River Findhorn. We started seeing some good runs of MSW Spring salmon coming into the Altyre Estate beats, throughout most of the week.
Our guests enjoyed some really great salmon fishing sport, but unfortunately there were rather quite a number of long distance releases, which was a little frustrating!
One of the highlight's of the week was on Monday, with our largest Spring salmon of the season so far, a cracking big fish of over 20 lbs plus, caught from the Soldier's Hole pool on the upper beat. Another big 20 lbs plus fish was hooked and lost on Wednesday morning.

The other highlight was a cracking first ever Spring salmon caught by 13 year old Malte Fischer from Germany, who was back on the River Findhorn fishing with his Dad Jens for their third visit, later in the week. Malte also hooked and lost another bigger fish on the following morning.

As always please do contact : www.speycaster.net for information on all River Findhorn fishing and availability going through the rest of the 2026 salmon fishing season.

For W/C April 5th, our clients have enjoyed another good week of early Spring salmon fishing at Altyre Estate and The Meads of St. John at Darnaway on the River Findhorn.

River levels continued to yo-yo on the back of snow melt water and rainfall up in the River Findhorn catchment for much of the week, with high water conditions for much of the week, finally falling away a little by Friday/Saturday.

Please do contact me for information on fishing costs and availability going through the rest of the salmon fishing season at www.speycaster.net