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.

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