Steady week for salmon fishing despite conditions

Summer salmon and now improving grilse numbers were running and landed throughout the River Tay in Perthshire last week.

It was a steady week despite more turbulent conditions at times, with around 180 fish landed and the biggest one recorded was a 23lb beauty on Upper Redgorton.

More fish from the lower river scattered throughout the beats, encouraging everyone as a summer run starts to develop in earnest.

The beats at Stanley and below are seeing improving sport as the summer run enters the river and now earlier run fish have started to drop back towards their final destinations of Almond, Shochie and Ordie.

The beats just above the tide have started to produce fish on a regular basis with Almondmouth now starting to show good daily catches and amassing 17 last week.

Waulkmill and Lower Redgorton caught 17 between them. Luncarty saw improving sport with Dougie Wangert and Tom Allan both catching on the beat on Monday.

There was a notable day on the Craigs for the Upper Redgorton boys with fish caught at 23, 18 and nine pounds.

Stanley and Upper Scone had quieter weeks with only six between them but angler Sharon Pollock caught her heaviest fish at 21lb from the Plain Water on Benchil.

Richard Sims also caught at Benchil on the fly from the Long Shot. Taymount and Stobhall had steady weeks with Tim Greenfield, Jim Coates and young Andrew Barker all catching later in the week.

The middle river has slowed down with rising river temperatures over recent weeks but the recent rain must help in the weeks to come.

Kercock had a superb week with 16 fish which included 10 on Saturday. Billy McInnes was one of the successful rods. Delvine and Burnbane had one in the week and Glendelvine had a couple.

The upper river was seeing sport with a fish caught on the Farleyer beats and recent fresh water should improve activities in the weeks to come.

Angler Richard Sims had a successful day on the Long Shot.