FLY FISHING – SCOTLAND, SPEY
Fly fishing trips to one of the most famous salmon river in the world, the Spey in Scotland. Fishmaster will arrange a hosted trip to Spey, Castle Grant and Gordon Castle beats on 9th-16th May 2027. The Fishmaster group has two great fishing beats available every day, Castle Grant 3 on the middle Spey and Upper Brae/ Middle Brae/ Lower Brae/ Castle water on the lower Spey. We arrange a rotational fly fishing trip for a Fishmaster group of 10 people so that we can fish in all beats during the week. We fly fish the Castle Grant 3 beat with 4 rods and the Upper Brae/ Middle Brae/ Lower Brae/ Castle water beat with 6 rods. The host will be Jouni Rauha.
SPEY
The Spey is located in the north-east of Scotland and it is the second longest and the fastest flowing river in Scotland. It is very famous and one of Scotland’s big four salmon rivers. The Spey is well known for its early run salmon and there is good spring fishing season from March until the end of May. The Spey is a very beautiful river which suits excellently for fly fishing. The fishing on the river Spey is catch and release only.
FLY FISHING – CASTLE GRANT
Our fly fishing group will fish the Castle Grant Beat 3 on middle Spey, about 7 km downstream from Grantown on Spey. Set amid scenery of Speyside, the fly fishing available at Castle Grant Beat 3 rank among the finest in Scotland. The beat 3 is one mile (1,6 km) of double bank fishing. The river averages about 50 yards in width and the pools vary from 5 feet to 10 feet in depth. There are 5 great pools and comfortable fishing hut with toilet and cooking facilities. With such number of pools, the Castle Grant Beat 3 offers great variety of fishing and is excellent fly water including fast runs and a deep holding pool. Fishers are accompanied on the river by full time ghillie and the beat is booked exclusively for our fishing group.
FLY FISHING – GORDON CASTLE
The fishing group uses the private Gordon Castle fishing beats on the lower Spey River upstream from the town of Fochabers. There are four fishing beats at Gordon Castle: Upper Brae, Middle Brae, Lower Brae and Castle water. The beats are some of the finest fishing beats on the Spey River, each of which is approximately 3 kilometres long and covers both sides of the river. We use one of the four fishing beats each day and the areas are rotated so that during the week we can fish all four beats of Gordon Castle. Only fly fishing is allowed on our trip. Each beat of Gordon Castle contains 5-6 named pools, which are very nice and easy to fish with a fly. The Gordon Castle areas are fished by 6 people per beat. In the middle of the beat, on the riverbank, there is a nice fishing hut where you can rest and eat. We have our own local fishing guide, a ghillie, at each beat.
FLY FISHING TACKLE
For fly fishing for salmon on Spey we recommend 12-15 ‘ feet double handed rods for lines #8-11 and suitable fly reels with good quality disc brakes. Floating, sink tip or intermediate shooting heads are most used fly lines but please bring also medium sinking fly line or shooting head for possible high water conditions.
FLIES
Good fly patterns for Spey are: Black Sheep, Dee Sheep, Black & Yellow, Willie Gunn, Munro Killer, Thunder & Lightning, Allys Shrimp, Garry and Cascade.
ACCOMODATION
Accomodation for guests will be in a large charming Scottish Achnagonalin House, close to Grantown on Spey and 6 km from the Castle Grant beat 3. This house offers a high standard accomodation for the fishermen; 9 bedrooms, a nice kitchen, 3 bathrooms, a dining room and a nice sitting room. We will cook the meals together in accomodation or dine at local pub or restaurant.
TRAVEL ARRANGEMENTS
Fishing trips to the Spey, Castle Grant are always hosted trips. Anglers will take a flight to Aberdeen. At the airport they will meet host Jouni Rauha and continue to the Spey with rental cars, it is about 1 hour 30 minutes drive to the destination.
- Trip dates: 9.-16.5.2027
- Price: 1980 eur/person
- Trip length: 6 fishing days/7 nights
- Group size: 1 host + 9 persons
- Bookings: open rods
- Fishing trip includes: Fly fishing, Guiding, Accomodation
- Fishing trip does not include: Flights to Aberdeen, Meals and Drinks (150-200 £/angler), Gratuities for ghillie (180-240 £/angler), Rental car
- Species: Salmon, Seatrout, Brown Trout
- Season: 11.2 – 30.9
