This graph intrigued me when I produced it Spey salmon and grilse catches compared to all Scotland Conveniently the Spey rod catch is approximately 10% of the Scottish catch; as you can see the Spey catch on the left axis extends to 12,000, compared to 120,000 for the Scotland catch. Generally the Spey catches more than 10% of the Scottish catch but during the period five year period from 2010 to 2014 to went negative i.e. dropped below 10%. The Spey seemed to miss out on a good period of catches; this was the era when the Tweed made its…

Source: Spey Fishery Board – Spey juvenile stocks