The fish was quite coloured, having been in the river for perhaps three or four weeks. Robin played it expertly, landed it, had his photograph taken and then returned it unharmed to the river, whereupon it swam serenely back into the pot. Now came the time John and Mike had been dreading.
‘Just shows, you doesn’t it?’ crowed Robin. ‘A bit of effort, and a willingness to experiment, and then…’
‘Yes, alright, don’t rub it in,’ said Mike in a resigned tone. ‘You realise we’ve a job to do now, don’t you?’
Robin frowned. ‘What?’
‘This isn’t a recognised
grew up with red squirrels as a boy, taking them totally for granted and laughing at my father forever chasing them out of the fruit trees in our garden. Before my Spey sighting, however, I hadn’t seen one in the flesh for 30 years, which just goes to prove how a species can move from abundance to rarity in the blink of an evolutionary eye, especially if helped on its way by an alien invader such as the grey squirrel. I proceeded to bore the rest of the party over the lunch table about this red versus grey battle, and how similar it was to what was happening wit
During the 1950 season, Duncan and Percy had seen a few small shoals of tuna containing fish in the 400500-pound bracket. However, they had also periodically spotted the odd larger fish, which tended to remain solitary hunters. One of these was very large indeed, quite the biggest fish they had ever seen, and Duncan set his heart on catching the monster before the season was out.
Day after day they trolled St Ann’s Bay in the hope that the tuna would grab the bunch of mackerel impaled on the huge hook, but they only caught the occasional standard-sized ‘scho
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