Silver ghosts of the sands
On the north-west fringes of the British Isles, with St Kilda on the far horizon, live our most exciting game fish. Found on huge expanses of shallow sandy waters, a tussle with a 1lb fish is thrilling. If you happen to have cast 10,000 times and your luck is in, you might get to tussle with a 5lb leviathan. Double-figured fish are out there; many have been seen, but none have been caught in living memory.
The thought of catching such a monster brings me back to the shores of North Uist time and time again. The reality of catching even a 4lb fish is simply spine-tingling. It is what makes these trout the Scottish bonefish — without the sun and with whisky instead of rum punch.
The subject of this obsession is the sea trout, the sea-going sibling of the brown
