I took a break from salmon fishing in 2012 and the difference from then to now is frightening something definitely needs to be done about it. Great to see you out on the river again though. Well done on getting two this season Ive only had sea trout so far.
Thanks Toby, hopefully see a few fish soon. The next three months is all that we've got for catching fresh fish these days. I'll be trying to put some hours in from June onwards.
Yes agree with everything you say about the state of salmon fishing, how did you know about the Grimersta? Take a look at the Ness, unbelievable. Thanks for your videos👍👍
@@scottishoutdoorlife Worst season ever on Grimersta!Worst season ever on the lower Ness!!! Club water and Ness Castle, forget Dochfour it's a fish trap.
Thanks for the video, Ian. Always nice to be out and about, whether it is on the river, on the hill or through the woods. I agree that there is lots that can be done on virtually every river and also that the great unknown is what's going on at sea. Hatcheries have to help. The more fish in the river that can migrate, the more chance of some coming back. Little is being said about the impact of fish farms at the moment, very little about the number of seals.
Thanks Colin it was nice to get out again. Agreed, the seals have a huge part to play, we just need to be doing everything we can at the moment to give them a helping hand. Hatcheries are key to supplement the populations until some of the mitigating factors are reduced.
@@scottishoutdoorlife There seems to be either a reluctance for "government" (in whatever form) to get involved other than to say that conservation and clean rivers are good but not to get too involved. They are actively against hatcheries, which is a bit daft to me, against culling (unless it is deer and they want them eliminated) as everything will find its "natural balance" in the wild. Which we know it won't because of 101 factors we have no control over elsewhere. So, we need to control what we can control to give the fish and everything else in the river, the chance to catch up with the pace of change in an industrialised world.
Think we were fishing the Redgorton bank on same day of it was you wading down below the Gellyburn? 17 May. Thanks to our ghillie Stewart for giving us good tips for The Bleachings (when he wasn’t painting the bothy) that helped one of us hook a fish… although it came off after a short fight. 😫
Hi I fished the Saturday night for a couple of hours. Good to hear you hooked one. That's the place to get them certainly at that height. There and the girnal. You had a great height for it. 👍
Nice one Iain. Agree with most of your thoughts. Perfect storm for our fish. Is there wide enough will for change? I Hope so but….. not holding my breath. Same score as you - for a lot of effort Good vid thanks
@@scottishoutdoorlife absolutely Iain - especially when it costs money. Or stops others who are making lots of money (salmon farms, scientists, RSPB, re-wilders, trawlers etc etc)
Great to be out on the water, the sound of the river, a blackbird singing his heart out, doesn’t get better , apart from catching 🐟,tight lines next trip.
Had a week on the Earn in mid April. Not great conditions, but what was worrying is that in an entire week i never saw a fish... Not even a trout, plenty of flies hatching and the river looked great, but to not see anything was a fair bit concerning. A couple of guys were talking about a huge amount of seals off the coast and estuaries, but that doesn't explain the trout. Im hoping i was just unlucky
There are more cormorants and gooseanders recorded on the Earn than on the Tay now proportionately to the size of the River. This won't be helping at all and would in part explain the low fish numbers in general on the river. What beat were you fishing?
@@scottishoutdoorlife I own a 3 rod week on Lochlane and Laggan, I cannot fault the upkeep and management of the stretch. The River fell and fell over the week so not ideal, but, you are correct everything I have heard is that it has been dead all over this spring. I'm hopefully going to get back up in autumn, hopefully a fish or two have got in the river by then.
Fingers crossed. There's a lot of work about to begin on the Earn. I'm involved in it and exciting times ahead. Can't say too much at the moment but a new Facebook page will start in the coming weeks to keep everyone informed.
Hi Ian I agree 100% with what you are saying about the plight of or beloved salmon and sea trout. Every river should have its own hatchery and keep it in operation until a recovery of the population is seen. Once that has been achieved the hatchery could be mothballed until it is required again. I fish the Dee and it is exactly the same situation there, not catching fish but worse still not seeing any fish. Most anglers and especially ghillies are very disappointed with the situation
Everyone constantly says that hatcheries don't work yet time and time again we're seeing rivers stop their hatcheries and fall off a cliff. Couldn't agree more there is a place for a hatchery if the River can't sustain itself.
Ian, as all you said at start of video would be correct, but also sea temperature rises has serious consequences on migratory fish, the EMOC system is shifting in the northern hemisphere, and we can expect really bad years ahead. If we stand any chance of saving the species, hatcheries are a must on all rivers. Well proven on the river corrib in Galway but still has its challenges with the sea temperatures. As like the Scottish rivers the Irish Rivers are a mirror image with little or no spring run. We have had a message from the Irish Fisheries Board to be vigilant on reporting any pink salmon we catch, as their numbers have increased over the years, this is also connected to the changing sea currents. love the Videos by the way, especially when im resting, and let you do the wading.....Cheers.
Thanks for watching and the comments. It should be plain to everyone we need to supplement the stocks at least for bow until we can mitigate what's happening at sea if we want the salmon to still return in any numbers at all.
.Whether it's a combination of feeding, disease or other issues salmon are in low numbers everywhere. But then I heard that the Grimersta in lewis had the best year in decades last year. I'm even thinking of going back to wild brownies because I haven't caught a salmon in seven years. Not that I have alot of time to fish for them.
You shouldn't need a lot of tome, you should have confidence to go out and at least stand a chance of getting one. They did have a good year bit I bet its back to normal this year
Just finished a conference in Germany on the lack of returning Salmon in the River Rhine. We restock 2 million eggs, Alvin s and smoults every year and have been doing so for the last 20 yrs. In France. Switzerland. Belgium. Returners 280!!!
@@scottishoutdoorlife Many causes as I mentioned but we still dont not know how many smolts actually reach the sea. We are genetically fingerprinting all the broodstock the hatcheries are using so we can see when fish return where they come from. I hope Scottish hatcheries are doing the same so you can get a handle on the causes soon. Time as they say is running out.!! tight lines
Jesus Ian by good to see ya back on the water by over here we are catch and release only what about your side of the pond.Our numbers were good last year we'll see what this year brings we have a hatchery on our island as well .We talk about numbers all the time here and whats goin on everywhere else in the world the governments involved here along with alot of associations.Right now were hearing no big runs coming in were goin for our first trip next week so we'll find out .Also we are fly and fly rod only for salmon here no spin gear plus one fly only on the line just to let ya know.
Thanks for the input. I think we run at about 90% catch and release, some of the rivers are mandatory and some not. Hopefully you prove them wrong and get a few this year.
Good to see you out and about looked like a nice day to be on the water . It’s a simple answer to what has happened to our fisheries ,Humans . We’ve done just about everything we can to destroy what we have . We’ve overfished everything, we have contributed to global warming we continue to Pollute or oceans , rivers and ground with toxic chemicals and people just don’t care it’s always someone else’s problem . Half the governments don’t believe there is a problem the other half do so we are at a stalemate. We will continue to debate these issues until there is nothing left . I’m 74 years old and these issues have been going on my entire life , as much as we fisherman, hunters and outdoors people try to make ourselves heard no one is listening. I hate to say it but I do not see anything changing until there is no more food or drinkable water left in the world then people will ask what happened ? Heading out for a couple of days to do some fishing:-) Thanks for sharing
Spot on mate all the rivers are needing a little help or the future of salmon fishing is looking dim but unfortunately our government is only interested in banning things and planting trees
I must say im fully for re stocking but with the individual rivets particular dna. Throw numbers at it for now and study to see what the biggest issues are but throw a stocking programme at and for each individual river and burn. Go for numbers for now and work the issues out as we go
@@scottishoutdoorlife i saw plenty on the dee but caught the square route of heehaw lol but it was great to be there and nicol paton is the man. The ayr has one or two good pools overfished to hell, locals hated on me as a new member, saw 2 caught none. Wont waste my cash and time there any more. Perhaps the nith, doon etc next season with visits to the dee and esks all early summer to autumn. Its expensive but you do have a chance and nobody hates on you for daring to fish where yheyve fished since fish were invented- by them! Probably at a meeting with an apron on and a funny handshake lol its unreal. The next club down stream takes 500 deposit before you can buy a permit precisely to keep those guys from joining! Therefor i walked away lol crazy days.
Up here in Argyll the Awe is on dire straights. 2 fish so far all season I believe. This should be prime time. Used to have a hatchery years ago which got taken away because the fishery board decided that nature would find a way and interfering could genetically make the hatchery fish weaker. They’re just going to let it die on it’s arse. They seem to be more interested in smolt tagging, rather than a proactive and coherent approach. It’s very sad.
Only been salmon fishing for about 11 years and last year was my best to date this maybe due the lack of commercial fishing at sea during covid and angling pressures or maybe I'm getting slightly better at it haha, but I know one thing for sure commercial fishing at sea around the whole world is causing a major problem for every species of fish but as for the salmon they are taking away the feeding for them and even the species near the top of the food chain are struggling dolphins seals etc are feeding on bigger prey such as salmon so I think the knock-on effect of all that combined it's just too much for them of course the lack of feeding for them is a problem combined with the climate change I would say they are just about done unfortunately. I agree with everything you said some thing needs to be done now not when it's to late..! Tight lines 🎣 ( hopefully)
Hi David thanks for the comments. I'd agree over fishing is definitely one of the root causes. Bot sure what we can do about that on unfortunately. We'll need to figure something out. The only thing I can see is get our rivers to a near perfect position for them then supplement the stocks to an extent that we have a reasonable return.
@@scottishoutdoorlife, well all we can do is continue to try and do our bit for them and hope that the wild dose it's thing but us humans are 💯 the ones to blame on all the wildlife problems as the wild was fine before us lol.
Nice your back on the water, Very concerning all over, that itself should mean why all over??? Factory ships picking them up? If so surely they’d have to say what salmon are being caught…. Something has to happen…. Doesn’t take to many bad seasons to end things
Your right on the plight of salmon but the amount of predators in the river systems now is more than there has ever been you would never see a cormerant or gooseander in a river now they common place place and devastate rivers
You're right Neil so many and taking between 10-20 salmonids a day depending on what report you read its a massive number of fish, super efficient hunters.
I was on tulchan mid April for two days,we saw one fish,the ghillie said there was approximately 1250 rods on the river over six days and there was 11 fish caught,8 of which were off the same beat over two days,I also watched a bakers life video on the Tay,he saw one fish over three days,if folks in government don’t do something real quick there won’t be a salmon left in 15-20 years.The first thing I would do is get those silly rivers trusts to fuck,I’ve always said if the rivers were full of fish those clowns are out there cushy jobs messing about planting trees and filling in bankings for sand martins while telling everyone who will listen hatchery’s don’t work and mess with the wild fish genetics.If we don’t supplement the runs of wild fish with hatchery fish in the next few years then they won’t need to worry about genetics cause there won’t be any salmon left on the redds,,blast the saw bills,cull the seals,open hatchery’s on all the rivers get some fish back in the rivers then Chuck money at trees and bankings..salmon are hardy and Mother Nature is a wonderful thing just look at the Tyne/north Tyne they were barren of fish due to pollution but that cleaned up the river put a brilliant hat on the river and I can vouch that at certain times of the year it is stuffed with salmon
I agree we have to do something but it'll take a united front between all the rivers, the government are so against stocking and I'm not sure why, it has its place. Every river is suffering its time they realised trees and restoration short term won't be enough, the rivers need supplemented with atock
I see today the government have turned down an application to cull some seals on Spey bay,the statistics said there’s approximately 900,000 salmon return to Scotland and there’s 150,000 seals!!!! That shows how much the government care,there only interested in the cash they make from that shite they sell and call smoked salmon,the fish farms need to go onshore as well
Seal numbers are definitely out of control. You're right they're blinded by the income generated. What do seals bring to the economy, nothing. Apart from culling them would jeopardise there trade agreements
They need to start the hatchery back up there. I remember when I first fished the Dee each beat with a burn had egg boxes they had to keep an eye on and that ensured there was even a small number of fish going into every possible spawning habitat.
110 percent iain unfortunately with these invasive birds like gooseander protected by the rspb because they hate us fishermen as we kill everything when they are so blind to see the massive decline in our native birds like kingfishers herons dippers ect who knows the damage they do to the salmon they say one gooseander eats 10 parr a day but if you watch them they never stop diving and they dont often come up blank like us poor anglers do all the more these days all the best for the season anyway bud
Totally agree I did see one report that said 19 salmonids a day on a streamy river. The numbers are staggering and little wonder there's no fish left. They are super efficient hunters.
@@scottishoutdoorlife exactly iain this is the problem the so called experts cant even tell us an exact or close to figure of the damage these birds do hopefully we can get the 12 gadges out and save our rivers from these invasive birds
Nice video and great description of the pools Iain
Hats off with your views on salmon and rivers in general,hopefully it gets the ball rolling
Thanks Stuart we can only try 👍
I took a break from salmon fishing in 2012 and the difference from then to now is frightening something definitely needs to be done about it. Great to see you out on the river again though. Well done on getting two this season Ive only had sea trout so far.
Thanks Toby, hopefully see a few fish soon. The next three months is all that we've got for catching fresh fish these days. I'll be trying to put some hours in from June onwards.
Yes agree with everything you say about the state of salmon fishing, how did you know about the Grimersta? Take a look at the Ness, unbelievable.
Thanks for your videos👍👍
Hi thanks for watching. Just from what I read on line. Not sure what you mean by the Ness?
@@scottishoutdoorlife
Worst season ever on Grimersta!Worst season ever on the lower Ness!!! Club water and Ness Castle, forget Dochfour it's
a fish trap.
Ah OK. Worst season everywhere pretty much to be honest, everyone talks about doing things but no-one ever does unfortunately.
Thanks for the video, Ian. Always nice to be out and about, whether it is on the river, on the hill or through the woods.
I agree that there is lots that can be done on virtually every river and also that the great unknown is what's going on at sea. Hatcheries have to help. The more fish in the river that can migrate, the more chance of some coming back.
Little is being said about the impact of fish farms at the moment, very little about the number of seals.
Thanks Colin it was nice to get out again. Agreed, the seals have a huge part to play, we just need to be doing everything we can at the moment to give them a helping hand. Hatcheries are key to supplement the populations until some of the mitigating factors are reduced.
@@scottishoutdoorlife There seems to be either a reluctance for "government" (in whatever form) to get involved other than to say that conservation and clean rivers are good but not to get too involved. They are actively against hatcheries, which is a bit daft to me, against culling (unless it is deer and they want them eliminated) as everything will find its "natural balance" in the wild. Which we know it won't because of 101 factors we have no control over elsewhere. So, we need to control what we can control to give the fish and everything else in the river, the chance to catch up with the pace of change in an industrialised world.
They are blind to what's happening. We need change and quickly.
Enjoyed your video. 👌
Thanks glad you enjoyed it 👍
Think we were fishing the Redgorton bank on same day of it was you wading down below the Gellyburn? 17 May. Thanks to our ghillie Stewart for giving us good tips for The Bleachings (when he wasn’t painting the bothy) that helped one of us hook a fish… although it came off after a short fight. 😫
Hi I fished the Saturday night for a couple of hours. Good to hear you hooked one. That's the place to get them certainly at that height. There and the girnal. You had a great height for it. 👍
reallly nice video
Thanks for watching and the comments. It's certainly hard at the moment. We need to keep plugging away though 👍
Nice one Iain.
Agree with most of your thoughts.
Perfect storm for our fish.
Is there wide enough will for change?
I Hope so but….. not holding my breath.
Same score as you - for a lot of effort
Good vid thanks
Thanks Neil, plenty of people making noises but not enough willing to stick their head up and try to do something
@@scottishoutdoorlife absolutely Iain - especially when it costs money. Or stops others who are making lots of money (salmon farms, scientists, RSPB, re-wilders, trawlers etc etc)
Exactly 💯
Great to be out on the water, the sound of the river, a blackbird singing his heart out, doesn’t get better , apart from catching 🐟,tight lines next trip.
Thanks David 👍
Hi ,Ian do you ever use top water bugs like bombers, deer hair flies for top water fishing in Scotland.
Hi thanks for watching. They do on some of the smaller rivers like the North Esk but not normally on the River Tay.
Nicer to see you on the water than the fields mate
Thanks David, hopefully get out a bit from now on 👍
Been concerned for years . Politicians are not interested mate
They're not but we need to make such a fuss that they listen.
Agree salmon fishing in a dire state now and we still get asked to pay over the odds for it.
Thanks James it's a shadow of its former self that's for sure
Had a week on the Earn in mid April. Not great conditions, but what was worrying is that in an entire week i never saw a fish... Not even a trout, plenty of flies hatching and the river looked great, but to not see anything was a fair bit concerning. A couple of guys were talking about a huge amount of seals off the coast and estuaries, but that doesn't explain the trout. Im hoping i was just unlucky
There are more cormorants and gooseanders recorded on the Earn than on the Tay now proportionately to the size of the River. This won't be helping at all and would in part explain the low fish numbers in general on the river. What beat were you fishing?
@@scottishoutdoorlife I own a 3 rod week on Lochlane and Laggan, I cannot fault the upkeep and management of the stretch. The River fell and fell over the week so not ideal, but, you are correct everything I have heard is that it has been dead all over this spring. I'm hopefully going to get back up in autumn, hopefully a fish or two have got in the river by then.
Fingers crossed. There's a lot of work about to begin on the Earn. I'm involved in it and exciting times ahead. Can't say too much at the moment but a new Facebook page will start in the coming weeks to keep everyone informed.
Hi Ian I agree 100% with what you are saying about the plight of or beloved salmon and sea trout. Every river should have its own hatchery and keep it in operation until a recovery of the population is seen. Once that has been achieved the hatchery could be mothballed until it is required again. I fish the Dee and it is exactly the same situation there, not catching fish but worse still not seeing any fish. Most anglers and especially ghillies are very disappointed with the situation
Everyone constantly says that hatcheries don't work yet time and time again we're seeing rivers stop their hatcheries and fall off a cliff. Couldn't agree more there is a place for a hatchery if the River can't sustain itself.
Fish the river Faughan in Northern Ireland worst year on record talk about shutting it down next year so you’re 100% right things need done!
That's not good. They need help just not enough people willing to do something about it unfortunately. Thanks for watching 👍
Thanks Iain. Great to see you out again.
Thanks for watching again. Great to be out again. 👍
Ian, as all you said at start of video would be correct, but also sea temperature rises has serious consequences on migratory fish, the EMOC system is shifting in the northern hemisphere, and we can expect really bad years ahead. If we stand any chance of saving the species, hatcheries are a must on all rivers. Well proven on the river corrib in Galway but still has its challenges with the sea temperatures. As like the Scottish rivers the Irish Rivers are a mirror image with little or no spring run. We have had a message from the Irish Fisheries Board to be vigilant on reporting any pink salmon we catch, as their numbers have increased over the years, this is also connected to the changing sea currents. love the Videos by the way, especially when im resting, and let you do the wading.....Cheers.
Thanks for watching and the comments. It should be plain to everyone we need to supplement the stocks at least for bow until we can mitigate what's happening at sea if we want the salmon to still return in any numbers at all.
Good luck for the future, let's hope the fishing picks up for you.
Thanks John, here's hoping 🙏
.Whether it's a combination of feeding, disease or other issues salmon are in low numbers everywhere. But then I heard that the Grimersta in lewis had the best year in decades last year. I'm even thinking of going back to wild brownies because I haven't caught a salmon in seven years. Not that I have alot of time to fish for them.
You shouldn't need a lot of tome, you should have confidence to go out and at least stand a chance of getting one. They did have a good year bit I bet its back to normal this year
Just finished a conference in Germany on the lack of returning Salmon in the River Rhine. We restock 2 million eggs, Alvin s and smoults every year and have been doing so for the last 20 yrs. In France. Switzerland. Belgium. Returners 280!!!
Wow that's really poor return, what do they put that down too?
@@scottishoutdoorlife Many causes as I mentioned but we still dont not know how many smolts actually reach the sea. We are genetically fingerprinting all the broodstock the hatcheries are using so we can see when fish return where they come from. I hope Scottish hatcheries are doing the same so you can get a handle on the causes soon. Time as they say is running out.!! tight lines
Jesus Ian by good to see ya back on the water by over here we are catch and release only what about your side of the pond.Our numbers were good last year we'll see what this year brings we have a hatchery on our island as well .We talk about numbers all the time here and whats goin on everywhere else in the world the governments involved here along with alot of associations.Right now were hearing no big runs coming in were goin for our first trip next week so we'll find out .Also we are fly and fly rod only for salmon here no spin gear plus one fly only on the line just to let ya know.
Thanks for the input. I think we run at about 90% catch and release, some of the rivers are mandatory and some not. Hopefully you prove them wrong and get a few this year.
Good to see you out and about looked like a nice day to be on the water . It’s a simple answer to what has happened to our fisheries ,Humans . We’ve done just about everything we can to destroy what we have . We’ve overfished everything, we have contributed to global warming we continue to Pollute or oceans , rivers and ground with toxic chemicals and people just don’t care it’s always someone else’s problem . Half the governments don’t believe there is a problem the other half do so we are at a stalemate. We will continue to debate these issues until there is nothing left . I’m 74 years old and these issues have been going on my entire life , as much as we fisherman, hunters and outdoors people try to make ourselves heard no one is listening. I hate to say it but I do not see anything changing until there is no more food or drinkable water left in the world then people will ask what happened ? Heading out for a couple of days to do some fishing:-) Thanks for sharing
Thanks Mike, you hit the nail on the head. We have ruined it ourselves but we need to try and reverse some of the damage if we can.
Good luck with the fishing 👍
Very few Salmon in Ireland also
It's been a poor season everywhere. We'll see what happens when we get some water 💧
Spot on mate all the rivers are needing a little help or the future of salmon fishing is looking dim but unfortunately our government is only interested in banning things and planting trees
Definitely David they need to look at supplementing the rivers as the can't reproduce enough themselves. It's not rocket science. Thanks for watching
River irvine last year saw one caught none
It's definitely harder work atm but there's still some fish to be caught. Hopefully you get one or two this season 🙏
@@scottishoutdoorlife I might do, I've bought a permit for the ayr instead lol. Also doing days on the esks and dee
You'll bump into one or two for sure then. Good luck for the rest of the season 👍
I must say im fully for re stocking but with the individual rivets particular dna. Throw numbers at it for now and study to see what the biggest issues are but throw a stocking programme at and for each individual river and burn. Go for numbers for now and work the issues out as we go
@@scottishoutdoorlife i saw plenty on the dee but caught the square route of heehaw lol but it was great to be there and nicol paton is the man. The ayr has one or two good pools overfished to hell, locals hated on me as a new member, saw 2 caught none. Wont waste my cash and time there any more. Perhaps the nith, doon etc next season with visits to the dee and esks all early summer to autumn. Its expensive but you do have a chance and nobody hates on you for daring to fish where yheyve fished since fish were invented- by them! Probably at a meeting with an apron on and a funny handshake lol its unreal. The next club down stream takes 500 deposit before you can buy a permit precisely to keep those guys from joining! Therefor i walked away lol crazy days.
Up here in Argyll the Awe is on dire straights. 2 fish so far all season I believe. This should be prime time. Used to have a hatchery years ago which got taken away because the fishery board decided that nature would find a way and interfering could genetically make the hatchery fish weaker.
They’re just going to let it die on it’s arse. They seem to be more interested in smolt tagging, rather than a proactive and coherent approach. It’s very sad.
Totally agree, all rivers aren't now self sustaining and require help until the issues are eased.
Only been salmon fishing for about 11 years and last year was my best to date this maybe due the lack of commercial fishing at sea during covid and angling pressures or maybe I'm getting slightly better at it haha, but I know one thing for sure commercial fishing at sea around the whole world is causing a major problem for every species of fish but as for the salmon they are taking away the feeding for them and even the species near the top of the food chain are struggling dolphins seals etc are feeding on bigger prey such as salmon so I think the knock-on effect of all that combined it's just too much for them of course the lack of feeding for them is a problem combined with the climate change I would say they are just about done unfortunately.
I agree with everything you said some thing needs to be done now not when it's to late..! Tight lines 🎣 ( hopefully)
Hi David thanks for the comments. I'd agree over fishing is definitely one of the root causes. Bot sure what we can do about that on unfortunately. We'll need to figure something out. The only thing I can see is get our rivers to a near perfect position for them then supplement the stocks to an extent that we have a reasonable return.
@@scottishoutdoorlife do the rivers in Canada ect have the same problem we are having or is thst a complete different thing.?
I think they're having a lack of fish but I'm unsure what their specific issues are. I would suspect problems at sea like us.
@@scottishoutdoorlife, well all we can do is continue to try and do our bit for them and hope that the wild dose it's thing but us humans are 💯 the ones to blame on all the wildlife problems as the wild was fine before us lol.
100%
Tyne in England has a hatchery. Best salmon river in England.
Thanks for watching Richard. Is the hatchery there still operational I was led to believe it had shut down now?
Nice your back on the water, Very concerning all over, that itself should mean why all over???
Factory ships picking them up?
If so surely they’d have to say what salmon are being caught….
Something has to happen…. Doesn’t take to many bad seasons to end things
Very concerning but we need to stand up now and talk about it
Your right on the plight of salmon but the amount of predators in the river systems now is more than there has ever been you would never see a cormerant or gooseander in a river now they common place place and devastate rivers
You're right Neil so many and taking between 10-20 salmonids a day depending on what report you read its a massive number of fish, super efficient hunters.
I was on tulchan mid April for two days,we saw one fish,the ghillie said there was approximately 1250 rods on the river over six days and there was 11 fish caught,8 of which were off the same beat over two days,I also watched a bakers life video on the Tay,he saw one fish over three days,if folks in government don’t do something real quick there won’t be a salmon left in 15-20 years.The first thing I would do is get those silly rivers trusts to fuck,I’ve always said if the rivers were full of fish those clowns are out there cushy jobs messing about planting trees and filling in bankings for sand martins while telling everyone who will listen hatchery’s don’t work and mess with the wild fish genetics.If we don’t supplement the runs of wild fish with hatchery fish in the next few years then they won’t need to worry about genetics cause there won’t be any salmon left on the redds,,blast the saw bills,cull the seals,open hatchery’s on all the rivers get some fish back in the rivers then Chuck money at trees and bankings..salmon are hardy and Mother Nature is a wonderful thing just look at the Tyne/north Tyne they were barren of fish due to pollution but that cleaned up the river put a brilliant hat on the river and I can vouch that at certain times of the year it is stuffed with salmon
I agree we have to do something but it'll take a united front between all the rivers, the government are so against stocking and I'm not sure why, it has its place. Every river is suffering its time they realised trees and restoration short term won't be enough, the rivers need supplemented with atock
I see today the government have turned down an application to cull some seals on Spey bay,the statistics said there’s approximately 900,000 salmon return to Scotland and there’s 150,000 seals!!!! That shows how much the government care,there only interested in the cash they make from that shite they sell and call smoked salmon,the fish farms need to go onshore as well
Seal numbers are definitely out of control. You're right they're blinded by the income generated. What do seals bring to the economy, nothing. Apart from culling them would jeopardise there trade agreements
River towy wales is dead. The amount of algae is unbelievable.
We walked a burn yesterday and discovered raw sewage leaking into it. Something needs to happen and quickly.
River Dee the same re lack of fish. Its more than a worry its a serious decline
They need to start the hatchery back up there. I remember when I first fished the Dee each beat with a burn had egg boxes they had to keep an eye on and that ensured there was even a small number of fish going into every possible spawning habitat.
110 percent iain unfortunately with these invasive birds like gooseander protected by the rspb because they hate us fishermen as we kill everything when they are so blind to see the massive decline in our native birds like kingfishers herons dippers ect who knows the damage they do to the salmon they say one gooseander eats 10 parr a day but if you watch them they never stop diving and they dont often come up blank like us poor anglers do all the more these days all the best for the season anyway bud
Totally agree I did see one report that said 19 salmonids a day on a streamy river. The numbers are staggering and little wonder there's no fish left. They are super efficient hunters.
@@scottishoutdoorlife exactly iain this is the problem the so called experts cant even tell us an exact or close to figure of the damage these birds do hopefully we can get the 12 gadges out and save our rivers from these invasive birds
the fish need help .we need hatcheries before they become completley extinct.
Thanks for watching. I totally agree every river should have one. Carried out properly and if there's no harm to genetics I don't see the issue.