Tulchan B Broom Pool - The Far Side: Atlantic Salmon on the River Spey

A beautiful fresh Spey Springer from Tulchan B's famous Broom Pool.

It’s May here on the Spey. It doesn’t take long and I’m into a salmon in the neck of the Broom pool. Surprisingly it didn’t take in the deeper water where I was expecting but right in the shallows, practically on the dangle. The water can’t be more than maybe a foot deep there. That’s definitely a lesson right there for me on this pool.

For the technical viewers I’ll share my set up. This is a 10 weight 6-piece Atlas travel rod by Scott Mackenzie and my reel today is the Icelandic Einarsson Invictus 10-12. My line is a 10/11 floating Carron Jetstream 65-foot, long belly Spey line, with a 5 ft floating poly leader. This is a perfect line set up for the Spey at this time of the year. The famous Carron Jetstream is a joy to fish with and I would encourage anglers to give one a try. On the point there is 10 feet of 15lb Maxima and I have this size 12 flame thrower on the end.

It’s always a fantastic feeling to land a salmon on the fly. Even better when it is a fresh Springer from the River Spey here in Scotland. It is becoming increasingly hard to find these magnificent creatures here in the traditionally plentiful water of this prime Scottish river. There seems little appetite from the powers in control of the rivers to really make a sustained effort to recover the fish stocks. I worry for the future generations that there will simply be no salmon left and this fine art of fly fishing will be gone forever. Anyway, on a more positive note, this is a fine fish. A prime example of exactly what a Spey salmon should look like. I consider it an honor to have engaged with it and we work it back to full strength and return it to the beautiful river Spey to make its way upstream to where it was born. That is where it will spawn and the next of its generation will begin their incredible lives!



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