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River Spey (Moray) — a popular fishing spot. About 57 km long. Flows into Moray Firth. Nearby towns: Dufftown and Cullen. See when the bite is best: hourly fish activity for the days ahead, computed from the weather, pressure, and season.
Choose a fish to see its hourly forecast, catches and BiteGuide.
The course meanders heavily: the current digs a pool on the outside of every bend and builds a bar on the inside. Those pools under the undercut bank are where pike typically sits. The longest river around: all 9 neighbours are shorter.
Recorded 19 catches here. Most commonly caught: Atlantic salmon, Brown trout. Peak season: April–June.
Partly cloudy: 12–17 °C
Saturday, September 19
Work the cover — snags, weed edges, hole entrances; retrieve the lure with pauses.
River Spey — Saturday, September 19
The bite is moderate — fish feed in short bursts. Pressure is dropping — this usually boosts the bite. Peak 06:00–08:00 and 19:00–21:00.
The computed water temperature is around 13 °C — inside the 4–14 °C comfort range for Atlantic salmon, so baseline activity is high.
Atlantic salmon works the twilight: the peaks are pinned to sunrise and sunset — their times are in the sun-and-moon card above.
Pressure is rising 11 hPa over the day — the bite usually settles down after a rise.
One more input — the moon's feeding windows: within their hours the score sits higher than across the rest of the day. The window times are in the “Solunar feeding periods” card below.
September is an active season for Atlantic salmon here.
These are the same values the bite curve above was computed from. How the forecast works
Partly cloudy · feels like +9°
The day is 5 min shorter than yesterday.
Sunshine hours count direct sun only — cloud cover cuts it, so it is shorter than daylight.
The windows are set by the moon's transit and rise, and the forecast above already accounts for them: within these hours the bite score sits higher than across the rest of the day, while the day's overall level still comes from the catch-calibrated model.
What are solunar periods?BiteGuideFrom anglers’ reports
This is a summary of anglers' reports, not a proven cause of the bite: conditions lining up does not mean they drove it.
vertical axis — number of catches
| Value | Catches | Share |
|---|---|---|
| Atlantic salmon | 18 | 95% |
| Brown trout | 1 | 5% |