Milder conditions help heighten expectations

Spring salmon fishing on the Tay in Perthshire is well under way.

The river is falling off to give excellent conditions for fishing in slightly colder weather, and settling water levels last week, plus catches, are improving.

Expectation is high on the river for 2016 after successful springs in 2015, 2014 and 2013 and hopefully settled weather will continue with an improving run this month to give everyone a chance of landing a spring “bar of silver”.

Spring salmon were landed throughout last week with better weather and catches spreading with the higher river temperatures.

It was the best week of the season so far with 116 fish landed.

The majority of the salmon have been caught in the lower river – understandable given the cold conditions – but that is now changing with warmer water allowing fish to run further and improve results further up the river, including odd fish from Loch Tay as they start to spread in the system.