Spate · Granite · Moray / Speyside

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.

Poor · Brown Trout
Hare's Ear Nymph · 12-16
Poorlive now
Not the day for it
River temperature is the limiting factor today, not the flow. This is not the day to push it. Check the thermal advice above before you head out.
80% confidence
What moved it
  • Level0.03 mLast reading 5h ago
  • Water temp21.5°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
0.03 m
Last reading 5h ago
Water temp21.5°C
ClarityClear
Weather24°C
WindW 11 km/h
Pressure1019 hPa
Rain · recent0.1 mm
Rain · ahead6.4 mm

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

Water temperature for Brown Trout
Warm — slow
22°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
Water at 21.5°C — above the brown trout caution line (18°C). Fish dawn or dusk only. Land it fast, wet hands, no air shots.
Hatch timeline · todayPeak at 6pm

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Beyond the hatch · worth watchingambient prey

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Evidence
Survey-backed · regionalHigh confidence

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

Updated 19 hours ago

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

SB
Small Black Beetle
14-18 · Pattern
Proven pattern for this period
What's coming
Plan ahead
5-day outlook
Water here around 22°C. Nothing cooler within range — carry a thermometer.
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)
  • EcologyGood
  • ChemicalUnknown

SEPA (Scotland) · UKSC023084

The full read · show the working · for Brown Trout · confidence 80%
How the 18 is built — score × weight = contribution
Temperature10 × 28%2.8
Flow80 × 22%17.6
Clarity95 × 18%17.1
Feeding Time60 × 13%7.8
Pressure80 × 7%5.6
Insect activity58 × 12%7.0
Limiting factor: Water temperature (21.5°C) is outside Brown Trout's preferred range (10–16°C)= 58
Can you trust it?
Water temperatureair-to-water estimateestimated
Level / flowon-river gaugeobserved
Prey activitysurvey-backed invertebrate datasurvey
What would change the calculation
Cooler water — back toward the 10–16 °C ideal band — would lift the score and ease welfare.
The dawn and dusk windows score higher than the midday lull.
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