Salmon Fishing in Scotland

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Scotland is home to some of the finest fishing in the world. If you’re chasing the ‘king of fish’, the Atlantic salmon, then you need to head to Scotland’s big four salmon rivers, the Dee, Spey, Tay and Tweed. The River Dee is a river in Aberdeenshire, Scotland. The Dee is a popular salmon river, having a succession of varied pools, intersected by sharp rapids. The River Dee is one of the best spring salmon river in the world and it is here that many of the salmon fly fishing techniques were first developed. The river rises in the Cairngorms and flows through Strathdee (Deeside) to reach the North Sea at Aberdeen. The River Spey is a river in the northeast of Scotland, the second longest and the fastest-flowing river in Scotland. In 2010 the River Tweed produced more Atlantic salmon than any other river in Britain - 23,000 catches - and now ranks among the top salmon rivers in the world. The River Spey is known for a particular form of fly fishing where the angler uses a double-handed fly rod to throw a 'Spey cast' whereby the fly and the line do not travel behind the fisher (thereby keeping these away from the bushes and trees lining the banks behind him or her). This type of cast was developed on the Spey. The River Tay is the longest river in Scotland and the seventh-longest in the United Kingdom. The Tay is internationally renowned for its Atlantic salmon fishing and is one of the best salmon rivers in the United Kingdom, and western Europe, attracting anglers from all over the world. The largest rod caught salmon in Britain, caught on the Tay by Miss Georgina Ballantine in 1922, weighing 64 lbs, retains the British record. The river system has salmon fisheries on many of its tributaries including the Earn, Isla, Ericht, Tummel, Garry, Dochart, Lyon and Eden. The River Tweed, or Tweed Water, is 97 miles (156 km) long and flows primarily through the Borders region of Scotland, and eastwards from the settlements on opposing banks of Birgham and Carham forms the historic boundary between Scotland and England. It rises on Tweedsmuir at Tweed's Well near where the Clyde, draining northwest, and the Annan draining south also rise. "Annan, Tweed and Clyde rise oot the ae hillside" is a saying from the Border region. It drains the entire Borders region. Its lower reaches are near Berwick-upon-Tweed. The Tweed is one of the great salmon rivers of Britain and the only river in England where an Environment Agency rod licence is not required for angling.

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