Spate · Granite · Moray / Speyside, GB-SCT

River Livet

The River Livet, a Speyside tributary, running through the Glenlivet valley in Moray, Scotland.

The Livet runs off the eastern Cairngorms through Glenlivet — distillery country, with Glenlivet, Tamnavulin and Braeval all drawing their water from the same hills — and joins the Avon a few miles before it meets the Spey.

Prime · Brown Trout
Hare's Ear Nymph · 12-16
Primelive now
About as good as it gets
River dropping into shape after a lift. The kind of afternoon you remember — a weighted nymph through the clearing seams, the dry as it settles.
90% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.12 mDropping after lift
  • Water temp12.9°C
  • ClarityClearingClearing
Today's fly
Hare's Ear Nymph
Hare's Ear Nymph12-16
Proven pattern for this period
Conditions on the water
Live gauge
Level
Steady
0.12 m
Dropping after lift
Water temp12.9°C
ClarityClearing
Weather17°C
WindS 24 km/h
Pressure1003 hPa
Rain · recent1.0 mm
Rain · ahead2.5 mm

The nearest gauge doesn't record temperatures, so we've estimated it — defer to the river keeper's advice.

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Ideal
13°C est.ideal 10–16°C
0°14°28°
How to fish it · for Brown Trout
When
Nymphing can work through most of the day.
Where
Cover mixed depths.
Method
Start with tight-line nymphs and adjust if fish rise or drift higher.
Kit
9 ft #4 rod, floating line, 12 ft tapered leader to 4–5 lb fluoro tippet.
Why this works
Excellent — water temperature is right today, though time of day could be better.
Likely species
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 2pm

Hatch predictions

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Sub-surface · on the nymphunder the surface

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey(1)

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

Backed by regional invertebrate surveys; no sampling on this exact reach yet.

Through the year
0–3 scale · September highlighted
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March BrownHatch
2
3
2
CapererHatch
2
3
3
2
Heather FlyHatch
2
2
Autumn DunHatch
2
3
2

Numbers are intensity 0 (none) to 3 (peak) — a guide, not a guarantee.

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box

More opportunist and compact-water fishing. Small nymphs, simple dries and quick-reading of pockets and runs matter more than refined hatch matching.

What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Other water nearby · 5
Gallery · 2
  1. The River Livet, a Speyside tributary, running through the Glenlivet valley in Moray, Scotland.
    The River Livet upstream from the old packhorse bridge, Glenlivet, Moray.
  2. Terrain map of the venue
    Terrain map
About this water

The Livet runs off the eastern Cairngorms through Glenlivet — distillery country, with Glenlivet, Tamnavulin and Braeval all drawing their water from the same hills — and joins the Avon a few miles before it meets the Spey. It's primarily a brown trout river, small and intimate, with wadeable water throughout its length and the kind of hill-stream character that rewards short rods and careful approach. The occasional sea trout runs up in summer but it's not sea trout water in any serious sense. Day ticket fishing through the Tomintoul Angling Association and various estate permits; a proper Speyside wild trout river that flies under the radar of the salmon crowds.

  • Granite
Water quality (WFD)
  • Ecology: Good
  • Chemical: Unknown

SEPA (Scotland) · UKSC023084

The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 90%
How the 81 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity75 × 18%13.5
Feeding Time55 × 13%7.2
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity74 × 12%8.9
Conditions total= 81
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
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