Tay kelt

Yes, that's all I had to show for six days on the Tay with just two spring salmon among six rods. It was disheartening to see just the odd fish running in such great spring conditions with a falling river and settled conditions.

The six days of casting practice, I suppose, will come in handy for the Dee in a week's time. The Dee figures seem to have picked up a little last week while the Tweed's again were poor.

The opposite banks are fished separately on the Dee so I was surprised to see that the left bank Kincardine beat had 10 fish while the right bank Carlogie beat had nothing. It's the same stretch of water, after all.

There were some great hatches of March browns for the trout fishers and plenty of trout about. That's good news for the World Fly Fishing Championships (trout and grayling)to be held partly on the some of the lower Tay beats in June.