Hour-long TV show about River Spey on Friday evening
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The Spey is having a whole episode of the World's Most Scenic River Journeys devoted to it on TV tomorrow night.
The hour-long show will journey downriver from the Spey's source high up in the Cairngorms to where it joins the Moray Firth.
Shot in September following socially distanced procedures, it will look at salmon fishing as well as many other aspects of what is the fastest-flowing river in Scotland.
One of the locals interviewed during the making of the film was Jim Gordon.
Beginning in 1965, Jim spent five seasons on the Spey, net fishing salmon.
It was his first job at the start of a 44-year career with the Crown Estate.
In addition, Jim's elder brother, his father, both his grandfathers and a great-grandfather all once worked on the river too.
Now a volunteer at the Scottish Dolphin Centre at Spey Bay, he spent three hours showing the filmmakers around the Tugnet Ice House, which forms part of the popular visitor attraction.
Jim joked: "I told them quite a few stories about net fishing salmon and, in return, they told me I was very interesting, so that probably means they've edited me out."
The River Spey is just one of the globally-renowned rivers featured in the six part series.
The others are the Po in Italy, the German section of the Moselle, and the Hudson and Niagara rivers in North America.
World's Most Scenic River Journeys, which is narrated by the well-known actor Bill Nighy, is scheduled to be broadcast on Channel 5 at 8pm on Friday.
