Monthly Archives: July 2013
Only 8 sites surveyed today, 7 were in same locations as last year with one additional site at Phones. Excluding the Phones results the mean salmon fry count today was 46 per site compared to 45.8 at the same… Continue reading
Well it has been a warm even hot week on Speyside if I had wanted to live in temperatures in the high 20Cs I would have bought a house in Spain. It certainly has not been salmon fishing weather. The… Continue reading
Today we completed some more surveys in sites stocked last year. We did three sites in the Burn of Aldernie (Maggieknockater Burn) the lower of which was below the A95 culvert and accessible to migratory fish. Here the density… Continue reading
Over the last week or two we have completed surveys on the Knockando, Cally, Ringorm, Tommore and Corrie Burns to investigate survival of the fry and 0+ parr stocked in 2012.
Today it was the turn of the Tommore and… Continue reading
I wonder what the Spey report read like in 1936 when Fred Perry was the last British man to win Wimbledon? Rather different from today I would suggest! It has been a difficult week, hot and sunny just about everyday,… Continue reading
HML 150 VICTORIAN PARADE
1863 must rank as the most momentous year in the history of Grantown, when the quality of life for the inhabitants dramatically improved with the opening of not one but two railways. This in itself was… Continue reading