What is Wild Fish Season?
May marks the beginning of the wild fishing season, that brief, luminous window each year when the River Tweed opens up, and nature offers something that no fish farm, no technique, and no amount of culinary ingenuity can replicate. For us at Forman & Field, it is the moment we have been waiting for since last summer. Every fish is unique. Every mouthful proves that some things simply cannot be farmed, rushed, or improved upon.
What is so special about the Wild Fish Season?
Because this is as good as it gets. And because it will not last long.
Forman & Field are the only suppliers of Wild River Tweed Salmon in the world. With just one fisherman now permitted to fish the Tweed, what arrives at our East London smokehouse each season is genuinely irreplaceable, and once it’s gone, it’s gone until next year. Our Wild River Tweed Smoked Salmon, hand-sliced and each fish traceable back to the river itself, is not simply the finest smoked salmon we make. It is the finest smoked salmon that exists. Gamey, complex, and unlike anything you have tasted before. The kind of thing that, once tried, makes farmed salmon feel like an entirely different product. Because it is.
Alongside it, the Smoked Wild River Tweed Sea Trout, that quietly brilliant companion fish, similar in character to wild salmon but with a delicacy entirely its own. And for those who want to extend the wild season across every corner of the table, our Wild Smoked Salmon Pâté and Smoked Wild Salmon Butter bring the same extraordinary provenance to the most relaxed of meals.
The season is short. The quantities are strictly limited. We strongly suggest you don’t wait.
