The Fiddich runs through Dufftown and joins the Spey at Craigellachie, and like its neighbours on the south side of the lower Spey it is primarily a wild brown trout river with occasional summer sea trout. The upper reaches above Dufftown are small-stream character at its best — wadeable, intimate, holding a reasonable head of wild fish on good insect life. The lower mile down to the Craigellachie confluence is more regulated by the Spey system and sees some run-in fish from the main river in the autumn. Day ticket fishing through local Dufftown clubs. The Fiddich is not a destination river but it's one of the more honest little Speyside tributaries, and the Craigellachie Hotel has been a natural base for fishers touching it since Victorian times.

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