2021
NJ2442 : Maybe, just maybe...
taken 3 years ago, near to Robertstown, Moray, Scotland
Maybe, just maybe...
On the Dellagyle pool of the Wester Elchies beat, it's cold, very cold, and in the steady April snowfall a salmon angler launches a small selection of feathers wrapped around a hook, barely an inch long into one of Europe's fastest flowing rivers in the hope of seducing a silvery fish which has returned to the place of its birth from as far afield as Greenland. It is now late in the afternoon and no fish have been seen all day. Still, there's always a chance; it's happened before and it's this memory that keeps the salmon angler casting. A salmon taking a fly is one of life's subtleties; it's usually a gentle plucking sensation that dispels the cold, the fiercest weather conditions and all manners if adversity! Later in the day it did happen further downstream in the form of a silvery 12 "pounder" which was photographed and returned to continue its onward journey. That's why the salmon angler keeps casting!
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