Days
on the river.

A salmon born in a Scottish river swims thousands of miles to feed at sea, then very often finds its way home to the same stretch of river where it hatched.

Many Scottish salmon follow the great ocean currents north along the coast of Norway and then west and south along East Greenland, and some spend the winter in the Norwegian Sea. Some come home after just over a year at sea, and others stay out for up to four years and come back much bigger. They return with remarkable accuracy, often to the same stretch of river they were born in. To get there they leap waterfalls and rapids up to three metres high, which is what this film shows.