The Diary of a Bookseller

TUESDAY, 12 AUGUST

Online orders: 4

Books found: 2

Up at 7.30 a.m. with Will, one of the other guests – an old friend of Frederick. We drove to beat 3 on the Oykel, where the water was very high. I caught an 18lb. salmon at about 9 a.m., just as Peter, one of the ghillies, arrived. It turned out to be the only fish caught on the Oykel that day. In the afternoon I fished the Shin and lost a huge salmon above the falls, which took all of the line off my reel in a matter of seconds and kept going, leaving a ‘V’ in its wake. I am convinced that it must have been over 30lb. I doubt whether anyone believed me when I told them.

Till total £534.57

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