When I was small - a very long time ago - we lived in Scotland and my father said:
"You can't fish for salmon in a second trib. - The Tweed flows into the sea and is the river - the Teviot flows into the Tweed so that is a first Tributary -the Kale flows into the Teviot and is thus a second tributary"..

Is there any legal basis to this?
Is there any equivalent in England & Wales?
Does it also apply to sea-trout.

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Well I have fished the Ericht,which is a tributary of the Isla,which is a tributary of the Tay for Salmon,Sea Trout and Brownies,so I'm guessing your Dads information is maybe out of date?

Where's Kalemouth when he's needed?



Never heard of that rule before to be honest.

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I Have never heard of it.and I'm pretty certain that it does not apply nowdays(if it ever applied).

Jim

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I fish The Glen which flows into the Till then into the Tweed and when I first fished there,many moons ago,was told that you couldn't take migratory fish from a secondry tributary,but I have never taken any notice.

I've never heard of it either.
I guess you could argue that it might have some merit as a guideline as to when migratory fish should be left alone, most second tribs are fairly small. I can't think of a single west country second trib that is fished for salmon. But I have taken sea trout from second tribs and I'm sure there is no law against it.


Andy

The Garry is a tributary of the Tummel,which is a tributary of the Tay.Now that is a famous Salmon river and has been for a very long time.

Hiya,

I think that westcountry has it in that it was probably just a convention to ensure some conservation of stocks and maybe in particular, to leave the fish alone on the redds? Such an approach pops up in all sorts of forms in all sorts of hunter-fisher-gatherer cultures. Open and closed seasons operate in the same sort of way or in the wildcrafting of herbs and fungi, for example, there is the rule of thirds in that you never remove more than 1/3 of the 'crop'.

Andy