An afternoon in the glorious surroundings of the river Awe with Patrick Tillard. By Chris Houston, Creative Content. Also look at: https://flyfishing-blog.com/flyfishing-blog.com/2018/11/10/courses-by-glenda-powell-in-ireland-scotland-for-2019/ https://flyfishing-blog.com/flyfishing-blog.com/2018/10/08/salmon-trout-conservation-scotland-on-the-one-show/ https://flyfishing-blog.com/flyfishing-blog.com/2018/06/01/2018-ladies-salmon-fishing-courses-on-the-tay-in-scotland/
Bookings are coming in for next season for the fishery and I would like to take this opportunity to announce the dates for the courses on the Blackwater and the Tay for the coming season. I am delighted to be teaching these courses again this year and they have been very successful in previous years […]
![A noteworthy scientific paper which confirms impact of sea lice on sea trout has just been published in the prestigious Journal of Fish Biology, entitled “The influence of aquaculture unit proximity on the pattern of Lepeophtheirus salmonis [SEA LICE] infection of anadromous Salmo trutta [SEA TROUT] populations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland”.](https://flyfishing-blog.com/flyfishing-blog.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Lice-300x211.jpg)
A noteworthy scientific paper which confirms impact of sea lice on sea trout has just been published in the prestigious Journal of Fish Biology, entitled “The influence of aquaculture unit proximity on the pattern of Lepeophtheirus salmonis [SEA LICE] infection of anadromous Salmo trutta [SEA TROUT] populations on the Isle of Skye, Scotland”. The lead author is Isabel Moore […]
Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TC Scotland) is today leading a call for an immediate moratorium on any new open cage marine salmon farms in Scotland or any expansion of existing sites. The call is supported by a wide cross section of 27 environmental NGOs and other bodies, demanding that: Until the current failings in […]
At the end of June Glenda Powell will be welcoming six women to the first of two Ladies courses on the Tay. The dates for the second course are from the 2nd – 5th July and there are two places still available. The total cost of the course including accommodation, meals, tuition and fishing for […]
“In Search of the Wild Rise” is a short film in which Corin Smith explains what fly fishing in Scotland is all about. In Search of the Wild Rise from The Wild Rise Company on Vimeo.
Grayling Land is a short film about fishing for grayling on the River Teviot in Scotland. Grayling Land from Speycast Media on Vimeo. Grayling are among the most beautiful and most respected freshwater fishes in the northern hemisphere.
Data reveals astonishingly high sea lice levels, Scottish Government regulation of salmon farms shown to be wholly inadequate. Following the formal decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner (See here) that Scottish Ministers unlawfully tried to withhold information naming fish farms that had breached Scottish Government trigger levels for the numbers of adult female sea lice on […]
The Scottish Information Commissioner has last week published a formal Decision that Scottish Ministers unlawfully tried to withhold information naming fish farms that had breached Scottish Government trigger levels for the numbers of adult female sea lice on farmed salmon. http://www.itspublicknowledge.info/uploadedFiles/Decision142-2017.pdf Late last year and this year, Salmon & Trout Conservation Scotland (S&TC Scotland) made […]
Marine Harvest’s performance on sea lice control in Scotland is drastically worse than any of its other worldwide operations. Newly published data in the 2016 Annual Report from Marine Harvest, the world’s largest salmon farming company, shows that its Scottish salmon farms are very far behind its operations elsewhere in the world in controlling the […]