Tuesday the 26th Sept I headed up North to the Spey Dam for the second time this season, on which will probably be my last outing of the season. On this occasion my mate Scott came along with me. Once we had uplifted our permits and oars etc from the hotel we made the short drive up to the loch. On arrival at the banks side boat moorings there was a brisk easterly wind blowing down the loch and the surrounding hills were covered in low lying mist. The loch was extremely high, in fact it's the highest we have ever seen it. As we were getting ready a big jeep pulled over, We thought it might be the gamekeeper or the warden but it turned out he was the Dam manager and he explained that a survey was being conducted on the loch and that the height of the loch had been deliberately raised over the last couple of days to enable them to do their work and told us that various objects had been placed in the west of the loch and if we encountered any , to give them a wide berth