Spate · Granite · Moray / Speyside

River Livet

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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
Low and clear — careful approach country. Take your time — read the water before you cast.
90% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.04 mLast reading 13h ago
  • Water temp15.5°C
  • ClarityClear
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
0.04 m
Last reading 13h ago
Water temp15.5°C
ClarityClear
Weather16°C
WindS 12 km/h
Pressure1019 hPa
Rain · recent2.7 mm
Rain · ahead6.2 mm

Live readings — water temperature is an estimate where the gauge does not record it.

Water temperature for brown trout
Ideal
16°C est.ideal 1016°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 insect activity could be better.
Hatch timeline · todayQuiet day

Hatch predictions

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalModerate confidence

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

Through the year
0–3 scale · July highlighted
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Daddy Long LegsHatch
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March BrownHatch
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GrannomHatch
2
2
Large StoneflyHatch
2
3
2

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

Ranked for today
Brown Trout fly box
SB
Small Black Beetle
14-18 · Pattern
Proven pattern for this period
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Other water nearby · 5
Gallery · 1
  1. 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)
  • EcologyGood
  • ChemicalUnknown

SEPA (Scotland) · UKSC023084

The full read · show the working · for brown trout · confidence 90%
How the 84 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature100 × 28%28.0
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time65 × 13%8.5
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity61 × 12%7.3
Conditions total= 84
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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