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Keeper of the month

Calum McRoberts is a highly regarded gillie on the Meikleour beat on the river Tay. He started working at Meikleour estate five years ago — before that, he worked on another beat further up the river. “I first fished at Meikleour in 1984. My old dad caught his first salmon that day — a 10lb ‘springer’. We went on to catch five more.”

A ‘typical’ day, he said, involves meeting guests in the morning and advising them on the most

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