IN the autumn of 1878 I was salmon fishing in the River Spey, a few miles from its mouth, where the stream was broad, strong, and deep—when just beyond the end of my line I perceived a squirrel ...

But where a river is rated ‘poor’, catch and ... Scotland’s most famous salmon rivers, the Spey and the Tweed, have retained their ‘good’ grading. But the Scottish wild Atlantic salmon ...