TALES FROM THE TIDELINE
If you were to ask any member of the non-angling public what it means to be an angler, they would, no doubt, picture some salmon fisher stood thigh-deep in a river. The hat full of flies, the tweed and the elbow patches all in place, is a cultural stereotype that stands firm in the public’s imagination as an emblem of all that summarises the determination, the patience and the partial insanity of the angler.
The salmon is one of those high risk, high reward fishes wherein targeting it will lead to either the pinnacle of success or the depths of madness in an all-or-nothing
