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THIS autumn, we’re going to hear quite a bit about the prowess of female anglers. For a start, next month marks the centenary of Miss Georgina Ballantine’s leviathanic Tay salmon, landed by lamplight at Glendelvine on October 7, 1922—and, at 64lb, still the British rod-caught record.
However, about 100 years ago, there was a notably large number of hefty Atlantics caught by other lady rods. In March 1923, Miss Doreen Davey took a prodigious 59½-pounder off the Wye (it remains our heaviest springer) and, in October 1924, on