We are the Dee District Salmon Fishery Board and River Dee Trust
Two organisations who look after the UK’s highest river and one of the best-known salmon fishing rivers worldwide.
Our stunning river stretches 81 miles from the source high up in the Cairngorms, right down through Royal Deeside to where it joins the North Sea at the City of Aberdeen.
We are working toward our vision of a thriving river supporting abundant biodiversity and binding strong the Deeside communities in Northeast Scotland.
The river Dee is also a focus for intense freshwater conservation actions to help save the iconic Atlantic salmon, threatened and representative of all wildlife’s imminent threats.
Winner of the Nature and Climate Action Award
for our #OneMillionTrees Campaign
Fish the Dee
The World famous River Dee has always offered the epitome of wild Scottish Atlantic Salmon fly fishing in clear, fast and classically shallow pools and runs.
Join us on the River Dee and experience this world famous salmon fishing river.
Success Stories
From breaking down barriers and restoring catchments, to keeping invasive predators under control, to reviving spawning areas and restoring wetlands – read all about some of our recent success stories.
Events
There is an event on the River Dee for everyone – whether it is our famous 24 hour fishing marathon, events to get more people taking up fly fishing, or an incredible charity auction, find out about what’s coming up and get involved.
Latest news
River Dee Report for the week starting 2nd September 2024
This week started with biblical rain all day Monday bringing water from the upper end of the Dee down the river at speed, the river settled by midweek and then the hot sun came back on Saturday with temperatures in the mid 20’s, today as I write the report it is back...
River Dee Report for the week starting 26th August 2024
So, it is hard to believe that this was the last week of fishing in August, listening to some of the chat on the beats then the Dee rods have been encountering some really bright fresh silver fish coming in and some decent sized well coloured residents, as is evident...
River Dee Report for the week starting 19th August 2024
This week we had a real autumn feel to the air and as I am driving up and down Deeside I can see some of the trees are starting to turn rusty, and it is only August! I am hearing that there are many more coloured fish being seen in the river and to the rods as well,...
River Dee Report for the week starting 12th August 2024
A week of wild weather gave our anglers and the fish plenty of challenges, one minute we had thunder and lightning, the next we had wild wind and even some sunshine in between. Water levels were quite low, but not unusually so for August. Just over 70 salmon/grilse...
Serica Energy champions riverbank biodiversity
Volunteers from Serica Energy could be found on the banks of the lower Dee at Peterculter on 2nd August where they joined the River Dee Trust to tackle the challenge of invasive plants and their detrimental impact on the riverbank. Serica rallied to the Trust’s call...
River Dee Report for the week starting 5th August 2024
A quieter week on the river for the first week in August as far as the number of salmon to the rods go and the grilse run seems to have slowed down now , there was plenty of fishing effort from anglers coming to the Dee and the weather was mixed but mostly warm,...