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Salmon fishing: tactics, rivers, beats and seasons for Atlantic salmon across the UK and beyond

Atlantic salmon is the fish that gets into your blood and never leaves. The wait for a take that may never come, the weight of a fish finally felt, the river that drew you back season after season – nothing in freshwater fishing compares.

Trout & Salmon’s salmon pages cover the full breadth of the sport. At home, that means spring fishing on the Tay, Tweed, Spey and Dee, summer grilse on spate rivers in Wales and Ireland, and the beat knowledge that separates productive days from blank ones. Further afield, we cover Norway’s Gaula, Namsen and Alta – rivers where 40-pound fish are a genuine possibility – Iceland’s legendary waters, and Atlantic salmon rivers in Canada. Fly selection, Spey casting, reading water and travelling to fish: it’s all here.

The fish are fewer than they once were. Every day on the water matters more because of it.