Nith News
May’s Nith Young Anglers Club outing
May 19, 2017We were out with the Nith Young Anglers Club on Saturday 13th May at Dunscore Worms Coarse Fishery. The young anglers were using whips with maggots, sweetcorn and worms. The fish certainly seemed to like what they were offering as they had (Read More…)
Nith Sea Trout Experience 2017 – Spaces are filling up fast
May 10, 2017Nith Sea Trout Experience 2017 spaces are filling up fast so make sure you register soon! There has been a great deal of interest in this year’s Sea Trout Experience and because of this spaces are starting to fill out. Limited (Read More…)
Nith Sea Trout Experience 2017
May 1, 2017Registration is now open for this year’s ‘Nith Sea Trout Experience’. Following the success of the sea trout experience in previous years the Nith District Salmon Fishery Board is repeating the ‘Nith Trout Experience’ event over four Fridays 23 June to 14 July. (Read More…)
Nith Young Anglers Club Day at Carsethorn
April 17, 2017The Nith Young Anglers Club enjoyed a day at Carsethorn flounder fishing. The Young Anglers learned how to set up a beach rod, make and bait a rig for flounder, dig for lug worm, and how to cast. It was an excellent (Read More…)
Vacancy – Administrative Assistant
February 2, 2017The Nith District Salmon Fishery Board require an administrative assistant to work in their busy office based at Auldgirth, Dumfries. The ideal candidate for this position will be self-motivated and have good interpersonal skills. 15 hours a week. Essential skills: excellent organisational (Read More…)
Nith Young Anglers Club
The Nith Catchment Fishery Trust has organised a series of Angling Days for Young people. Between February and December, we will be holding 12 fishing days where professional angling instructors will be on hand to teach young people how to cast and (Read More…)
River Nith Conservation Policy 2017
January 18, 2017Nith District Salmon Fishery Board Conservation Policy 2017 The Nith District Salmon Fishery Board reconvened today (18th January 2017) to continue consideration of the Category 2 status of the River Nith system, with the exception of the continuation of Category 3 status (Read More…)
CONSERVATION CATEGORISATION OF RIVER NITH SYSTEM
December 15, 2016BULLETIN DECEMBER 2016 Following the announcement by Scottish Government (“SG”) of the 2017 conservation categories for all Scottish rivers, the Nith System was designated Cat 3. For 2017, the effect of which in short would have been 100% catch and release (Read More…)
River Nith Category 2 for the 2017 season
December 2, 2016Many fishers on the River Nith will have enthusiastically read the recent announcement from the Scottish Government that the River Nith’s conservation status has been elevated to category 2 for the coming 2017 season. This follows a lengthy detailed appeal process in (Read More…)
Grayling Fishing River Nith
With the closing of the 2016 salmon fishing season many anglers attention is drawn to the productive grayling angling to be experienced on many beats on the River Nith. Indeed at time of writing this (2nd December) I note quite a few (Read More…)

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