Enjoyable Spey trip

Well, a couple of days on the river Spey near Boat of Garten for myself and River-green director Ian Walls. We were fishing our favourite piece of water, the beautiful kinchurdy beat for salmon. I was by myself for the Thursday and arrived to a low river in blazing sunshine, not the best recipe for a successful trip. However I did see a fish in the morning that gave some hope. Despite plenty of effort only the browns were interested in a stripped sunray shadow. As evening fell and we enjoyed a riverside BBQ, we started to see a good number of sea trout moving in the main kinchurdy pool, very unusual for this time of year. Given it was a lovely warm evening I decided to have a quick throw in the last of the light with a fairly large tube fly on a fast intermediate line. Fish continued to move into dark and amazingly I actually had a decent offer and one more half hearted one, but neither would stick. This might mean the sea trout have fed well this year if they are here in such numbers already.

Above is the famous kinchurdy pool. Anyway next day myself and Ian were joined by a few other rods so found ourselves experimenting in some of the faster runs hoping for a fish, but no luck in the morning. In the afternoon and fishing a stripped sunray shadow across the famous "stones" Ian managed some interest from a few fish which chased his fly but didn't stick, and we called it a day eventually around tea time. All in all an enjoyable if fishless trip, and we can't wait to get back up there for some serious sea trout fishing first week in July.

Ian fishes the famous "stones"