Cast from record salmon catch takes £5500 at auction
It is doubtless the source of a little irritation, or perhaps amusement, to members of the men-only Flyfishers Club of Piccadilly that the two largest salmon ever caught with a rod and line in British waters were both landed by women.
Two years after Georgina Ballentine hooked a 64lb fish using a spinning bait on the Tay (still a Bri…