Trout and Salmon Spey Report 2003
For many years I wrote the Trout and Salmon monthly report for the Spey and have just came across some old ones. Over the next weeks I'll...
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Ian Gordon
- Oct 13, 2017
- 12 min
Who Are Salmon Fishermen/women?
Who would be a Ghillie?! How many people can put their hand on heart and say they look forward to Monday? Who can honestly say “My day...
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Ian Gordon
- Oct 6, 2017
- 5 min
Why go to Norway, Iceland or Russia to catch salmon?
Why I take my clients abroad to fish for salmon.
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Ian Gordon
- Sep 29, 2017
- 2 min
Final week of 2017 on the Spey
2017 season comes to an end on the Spey. They say the older you get, the quicker time seems to pass! Not that I’m too old yet, but my...
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Ian Gordon
- Sep 12, 2017
- 3 min
River Spey - The truth and reality.
The good old days “I remember when we used to caught 20 before lunch”, “aye and 15 of them were over 20lbs”. All my fishing life I...
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Ian Gordon
- Sep 6, 2017
- 4 min
Spring Salmon, an Obsession
Ian Tennant (head Ghillie on the Brae Water) and I were discussing how the river had now become a spring river, with little or no grilse....
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Ian Gordon
- Sep 3, 2017
- 7 min
Sandy's big fish and Loch Maree!
This was the biggest fish I've ever seen on the end of any salmon rod..
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Ian Gordon
- Aug 24, 2017
- 4 min
Pink Salmon - My own take!
Pink Salmon – Much discussion has taken place over the past few months regarding the appearance of a certain strain of Pacific Salmon...
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Ian Gordon
- Jun 30, 2017
- 9 min
Thank God For My Double Handed Rod!
Single or double? As with many people, my fly fishing began with an old 9 foot glass fibre single handed trout rod aged 8, however, the...
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Ian Gordon
- Mar 19, 2017
- 5 min
Get out There and Fish !! The fish are Here!!
13th – 18th March 2017 The second week of March turned out to be quite a nice weeks fishing for those fishing on beats fished by, and...
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Ian Gordon
- Mar 13, 2017
- 4 min
Seasons on the Spey: Early Spring 2017
A Report on Early Salmon fishing on the Spey River during Spring 2017
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Ian Gordon
- Feb 20, 2017
- 2 min
Global Warming - My God, We're all Doomed!
The Washington Post The Arctic ocean is warming up, icebergs are growing scarcer and in some places the seals are finding the water...
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Ian Gordon
- Feb 10, 2017
- 4 min
A question of Trust!
I had an interesting and engaging conversation this morning with, Sarah Bayley Slater [Executive Director of the Atlantic Salmon Trust]...
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Ian Gordon
- Jan 26, 2017
- 6 min
Big Salmon on the Alta
Fishing for salmon on Alta. The most prolific river for big Atlantic Salmon.
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Ian Gordon
- Jan 26, 2017
- 5 min
The Worlds Best Salmon Fishery!?
Ryabaga on the Ponoi River The best salmon fisheries I know have one thing in common, and that is, they remain relatively undisturbed by...
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Ian Gordon
- Jan 26, 2017
- 2 min
One of the top Shooting Head Flylines
Having used the Greys Multi tip Shooting Head Salmon Flyline throughout 2016, including for some very big fish on the Alta river and in...
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Ian Gordon
- Jan 26, 2017
- 4 min
Problems with Salmon Farming
What are the problems with salmon farming? Should the public know the truth? Will they care about the truth?
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