2021

NJ2442 : Maybe, just maybe...

taken 3 years ago, near to Robertstown, Moray, Scotland

Maybe, just maybe...
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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Geographical Context: Sport, Leisure Country estates Primary Subject: Fishing
This photo is linked from: Automatic Clusters: · Wester Elchies [10] · Dellagyle Pool [8] · Dellagyle Beat [7] · Wester Elchies Beat [5] ·
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Photographer
Des Colhoun   (more nearby)
Date Taken
Saturday, 10 April, 2021   (more nearby)
Submitted
Sunday, 11 April, 2021
Subject Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NJ 2467 4283 [10m precision]
WGS84: 57:28.1673N 3:15.4534W
Camera Location
OSGB36: geotagged! NJ 2464 4283
View Direction
East-southeast (about 112 degrees)
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