Here's a fabulous action photograph of Jock Monteith loading up a perfect Spey cast for long range salmon fly delivery across the River Tay with his tweed jacket and chest waders on. This shot was captured on the Meetings Pool of the Lower Kinnaird Beat by top Scottish photographer Louise Bellin.

Here's some anglers receiving expert Spey casting tuition at Dunkeld on the River Tay. Learning to use a double handed salmon fly rod is easy when instructed by a professional salmon fishing guide who's fully tuned in to the traditional Scottish Speycast. This was a group lesson that was being given to a team of salmon fishing holiday guests who wanted to learn how to fly fish for salmon. Learning to fly fish for salmon is easy when you have the best salmon fishing guide instructors.

Here's Jock Monteith amidst a Spey casting lesson on the River Tay under the historic Telford Bridge demonstrating perfect D Loop loading with the single Spey cast. The traditional Spey cast is the most effective and satisfying casts. This photo was taken by local Dunkeld photographer Charlie MacDonald. Jock is wearing his Graham of Menteith tartan kilt while demonstrating Spey cast with his 15ft Monteith salmon fly rod.

Here's a group of salmon fishing holiday guests testing out their newly learned Spey casting and riverbank movement techniques on the left bank of the River Tay's Cottar Pool on the Newtyle Beat. This perfect green grassy bank makes a perfect salmon pool for teaching salmon fishing guests.

Learning to use your left non dominant hand with a Scottish Spey cast opens up a much bigger tactical range for your salmon fishing approach. This salmon fishing tour angler was learning how to do this from his professional salmon fly fishing instructor on the Oak Tree Pool near Meikleour on the River Tay.

Dunkeld Spey Casting

By Jock Monteith 4th July 2018

Hiring a professional salmon fishing guide will get you off the starting block qickly and effectively via career learned advice and instruction.

Salmon fishing access on its own is really only intended for experienced salmon fishers who have their own equipment and who know exactly how to use it.

Improve Your Salmon Fishing Skills

While most people think about salmon fishing tuition to be only about learning how to use a salmon fly rod I can assure you that is only the tip of the iceberg! To be consistently effective in Scottish salmon fishing you need to understand the value of good riverbank movement, be able to read a salmon pool, know how to make a take count by understanding how to set the hook along with having a good idea of the sizes and styles of salmon flies that work throughout the varying water heights and temperatures of the Scottish salmon fishing season. Without a reasonable understanding of the above fishing skills salmon for most fishers can remain highly elusive!

Fine Tune Your Salmon Fishing Approach

If you're new to this fantastic pursuit or could do with a little bit of assistance with any aspect of your Spey casting or general salmon fishing approach then this is truly a great opportunity. Often with the Spey cast there's a single error that hinders a salmon fisher from optimising their full casting potential. Much of this is caused by the new and largely 'ugly' casting techniques that have drifted away from the traditional 'elegance' of the Spey cast that initially attracted so many of us into this amazing sport.

Here's professional Scottish salmon guide Jock Monteith with a salmon fishing tour guest at the neck of the famous Kinnaird Beat's Ash Tree Pool. You can clearly see the beautiful Perthshire hills behind Pitlochry in the distance and Jock carrying his favourite salmon landing net over his shoulder.

Professional Salmon Guide Instruction

All of our professional salmon guides are some of the very best 'professional' technicians who have 360 degree knowledge and understanding in communicating the Spey cast. As importantly our salmon guide team have vast experience of catching salmon and have all served on multiple beats of the River Tay in 'full time' career capacity. There's some great talent on the Tay from the professionals who run the various salmon beats and our team certainly in the top bracket for sheer technical understanding of all aspects of the game.