What a whopper!One river's bumper sea trout catches raise questions about declines elsewhere

摘要

THE River Polla is not one of Scotland's best known rivers. In fact, it doesn't even feature on the list of the top 50 salmon rivers compiled by the Salmon Atlas. However, despite its insignificance in terms of Scottish sports fishing, it produced itssecond ever best catch of sea trout last year- a total of 140 fish compared with its average rod catch of about 45 fish.Among this bumper harvest was a specimen fish weighing 101b, nearly as big as the lllb fish caught in 2012.