Spawning appears to have been good as it was very difficult most of the time to observe the fish due to continuous high water levels and mostly very dull overcast conditions, on certain days when weather was resonable there were flurrys of activity. The very tail of the Shepherds pool was quite active with fish moving up into the pool causing a lot of disturbance. The Bo bahn pool was very active on the particular afternoon Iwent down for a look. On the upper beat from the meetings pool down to the head of the Corner pool there was a lot of spawning activity particularly around the 16th to 20th November. The biggest salmon i saw during spawning was a cock fish of approx 16 to 18 lbs he was mainly in the runs imediatley below Shimmys pool, as usual with any particularly large fish he was contiually charging around chasing all the other cock fish.

One really interesting episode happened right in front of me, I was standing in around 8 inches of water with a great view of two really agressive cock fish one of around 10lbs the other of about 6lbs. The 6 pounder would try to see off the 10 pounder by charging at it and giving it a real bang in the mid drift opening its mouth as it did it. However the bigger fish would use its very pronounced kype to ram into the side of the the smaller fish also oppening its mouth as it did it, on three occasions it clamped its jaws into the back and side of the smaller fish. It was great to see at really close range but unfortunately it was very dull to get a good photo.

By all accounts good numbers of fish were seen up in Glen Mhor and Deanich, I was going to go up with Jonnie Shaw for a look but the continuous high water put paid to it.
I know that a lot of Salmon went over the Glencalvie falls, having witnessed a lot go over at the end of July. During big water one day in early November I saw several salmon milling around at the mouth of the overflow side channel that empties back into the main river at the tail of Dollys pool, ten days later i walked up the side channel which was not flowing at all and saw a cock fish of about 9 or 10 lbs, whether this salmon was involved in any spawning in the channel is anybodys guess but it was interesting seeing it in there.

I also saw a salmon just below the road bridge over the Sgodachail burn that runs into the head of the
Shepherds pool. I mentioned it to Ronnie Ross the Braelangwell keeper and he said he had seen them going up
the burn this year also.