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There are two kinds of fish tales.
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The fish you caught and the one that got away.
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The first is about holding something
in your hands above the water,
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about mastery, possession and resolution.
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The other is about the space
between your hands, letting go,
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about mystery, the questions,
the elusive.
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I am not a fisherman.
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I read the obituaries in the New
York Times first thing every day,
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not to see who's died
but to let my mind wander
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into the lives of others.
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Perhaps some lives
can be immortalised
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and others only imagined.
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Ten years ago, I found the
obituary of Megan Boyd.
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"Megan Boyd, whose fabled expertise
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"at tying enchantingly delicate
fishing flies put her work in museums
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"and the hands of collectors
around the world
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"and prompted Queen Elizabeth II
to award her
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"the British Empire medal, died
November 15 in Golspie, Scotland.
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"She was 86.
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"From tiny strands of hair,
she made magic.
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"The classic Scottish flies,
like the Jock Scott, Silver Doctor
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"and Durham Ranger. And the fly
named after her, the Megan Boyd
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"a nifty blue and black number
famous for attracting salmon
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"at the height of summer when
the water was low, hot and dead.
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"She likes to sell
to fishermen she knew."
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The more I read the words,
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the more it felt like
they were being read TO me,
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like an invitation to a fairy tale
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or whispered in my ear
like a riddle.
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"Why does the salmon take a fly?"
Why does the salmon take a fly?
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Why does a salmon take a fly?
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Well, nobody knows.
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And Megan, when she was tying,
her flies caught fish.
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I kept asking my parents
to take me to see Megan.
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And I suppose at that time
they couldn't really afford
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to pay for me to go up there.
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So I sold the air rifle to get
my fare to go up and see Megan.
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And I remember going
from Aberdeen to Inverness
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and changing trains at Inverness.
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Then it was another
three or four hours by train
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from Inverness up to Brora.
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It took forever.
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'This is Brora.
This train is for...'
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Then when I got to Brora,
I got off the train and I stopped
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the first person I saw and says, "Can
you tell me where Megan Boyd lives?"
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And they turned round and said, "Yes,
it's about three miles up the road."
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And I thought
I was never going to get there.
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When I arrived at the house,
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she was actually around the corner
in her fly-tying shed, tying flies
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and she said, "I was just wondering
when you were going to appear."
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At first, she looked like a man.
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In a skirt.
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She cut her own hair,
and the way she'd cut her hair...
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And she always wore a tie.
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There was no electricity in the
house. And it was kind of eerie.
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Especially
when you went to bed at night.
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The first night I was there,
I remember lying in the bed
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and hearing these noises.
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And saying, what the hell is that?
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Next morning,
I saw Megan and I said,
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"Megan, there's funny noises
coming from the house."
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She said,
"Oh, it's the foxes under the house."
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We heard about the Boyds,
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that they had thought that they
might take in paying guests,
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that they would look after them,
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you know, they would feed them
and things.
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They used to come up the whole of
July, and my father and his staff
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stayed in the Marine Hotel.
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But the family, myself, my brother,
we stayed at the Boyds'.
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It was then that I met Megan,
in 1934.
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We had the house. And they had
living quarters above the garage.
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And they just came in
and cooked and served us the food.
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It was just a lovely, carefree
childhood, you might say.
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An idyllic time.
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# Two times one are two
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# Two times two are four
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# Two times three are six. #
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And right on to two times twelve!
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I was in school with Megan, yes.
Until she left, earlier than I did.
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I carried on in school to 18
and she left at 14,
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which was the age then
when you could leave school.
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She didn't play girly games with us.
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But, well, we didn't have
very many games, did we?
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Hopscotch and...
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The Farmer's In His Den and Blind
Man's Bluff and stuff like that.
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She didn't join in with girls.
She didn't join in with boys either.
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She just,
she was Megan and that was it.
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Her father, I think he had maybe
been a river watcher at some time
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but he was a cantankerous
old fellow.
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And the old boy used to bring
other crofters in
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every morning at 11 o'clock.
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I don't know
what the mother's name was,
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she would make them coffee. And I
remember we would always say to her,
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"What on earth
did you marry him for?!"
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And you know what her reply was?
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"Well," she said, "I saved
some other poor woman of misery,"
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or something like that she said.
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I asked Megan one day,
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"Why did you learn to tie flies?"
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And she said,
"Because they're pretty."
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And her father gave her a fly,
and it was a blue charm.
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And she said it was very pretty.
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She got a little vice.
She was given a book
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when she was 15,
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and she basically looked
at the pictures,
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read a bit about the book
and taught herself to tie.
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It's not a big book.
It's quite small,
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so thick
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and it's everything
on building fully-dressed flies.
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It tells you how to marry wings,
usually on a single hook.
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And Megan perfected her craft
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with just tying and tying flies
for years.
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'Pattern one, blue charm,
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'tag, silver thread
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'and golden yellow floss.
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'Tail, a topping.
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'Body of black floss...
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'times one,
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'two,
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'three,
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'four...
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It was more than a year before
I was able, was allowed to tie
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a completed fly.
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'..six...'
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She'd have you a couple of months
on one part of the fly,
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a couple of months on the other
part of the fly, a couple of months
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on another part of the fly.
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Then it all came together
and she says,
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"Right, you're ready to tie
a basic, simple fly."
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Nothing fancy.
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Then she used to have a look
at the fly and say,
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"That's OK. This is OK.
That's wrong. This is wrong."
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Then you used take the fly
all to pieces again
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and use the same hook again.
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'Once, twice...
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'..three times, four...'
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When you went to bed at night-time,
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Megan always made a hot-water bottle
for you, to keep you warm.
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The next morning, you emptied out
the hot-water bottle.
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The water from the hot-water bottle,
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you used to wash your hands and face
in the morning.
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So water was never wasted at Megan's.
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There was always water in the house
that came off the hill but she
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would never use it in case a sheep
or something had fallen in and died.
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So every morning, she went down
to Brora, every second day.
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She used to come in
and fill big canisters, buckets,
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what have you, for her water.
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They didn't have electricity.
It was all paraffin lamps.
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'15, 16...
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'Drips of oval, silver tinsel,
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'turned once, twice, three times.
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'No, start again.
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'Once, twice, three times.
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'Throat, a deep blue hackle.'
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We used to stay there
for a couple of weeks at a time.
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Then go back home.
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Megan would give me material and say,
"I want you to do this part
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"of the fly or this part of the fly,
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"then post them back up to Brora."
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Then maybe a month, or two months
later, a letter would come
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saying, "This fly was OK.
This fly, you did this wrong.
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"That fly, you did this wrong.
Improve on that part."
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And that's the way it went
for a couple of years.
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'..12, 13, 14,
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'15, 16...
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'Wings of mottled brown,
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'turkey-tail strips, set upright.
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'And narrow strips of teal,
along the upper edge.
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'A topping over.'
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Megan never tried trout flies at all.
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She may have done it
at the very, very beginning
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but she was straight into salmon
fly tying because the people
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our father knew, and our friends,
were all salmon fishers.
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I mean, anywhere they've got Atlantic
salmon, you'll find Megan's name.
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Part of the excitement
of salmon fishing
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is this very romantic
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lifestyle of the fish,
the angler's quarry.
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They spend two or three years
in the rivers before they get
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this urge, where they want to go
to sea, to stuff themselves, to eat.
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Somehow, it's in their genes
to go out of the rivers.
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Something is calling them.
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They go all over the Atlantic,
mostly through the Faroe Islands,
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into the Norwegian Sea,
up to Greenland and Iceland.
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The huge journey that is undertaken
from its native headwaters,
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right out to feed under the ice cap
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and to come back to propagate
the species.
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Once that fish goes out to sea,
I don't think we have
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any control over it at all.
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This is a very special love story,
going all over the world
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and then coming back home
to spawn with his girlfriend.
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Our first commission
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for fly tying,
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she had to convert an angler's
fly box from old gut-eye flies
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to the new irons,
you know, single irons.
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And her commission for doing that
was £5.
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With that money, she was able
to buy a four-piece suit
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for her father from Army And Navy
stores in London
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and still have enough money left over
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to buy raw materials
to start her business.
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A lot of the feathers that were used
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in Megan's day were
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a spin-off from the millinery trade,
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brought in specifically
to make ladies' hats.
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These birds were brought in
by the English gentry, you know,
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from India and Africa.
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There were actually thousands
of different high Victorian
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and Edwardian patterns, each vying
with the other to incorporate
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more and more high imperial
exotic materials.
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There was Indian crow
from South America.
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There was blue chatterer
from South America.
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Toucan feathers.
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Ibis.
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Various parrot feathers.
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Jungle cock.
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Bustard from Africa and India.
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My father was a ghillie on the
River Helmsdale for about 40 years
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and he used to pick up flies
for his clients and, of course,
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I would be in there, rummaging
around on the floor beneath our table
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and just watching her create
these amazing patterns.
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That's it, finished.
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It's one of Megan's patterns.
It's a land over.
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Megan always said to me,
"Put life in your fly."
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There are 197 pools on the river.
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I've caught fish on every pool
in the Helmsdale River.
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If a stone moves during the winter
time, I know that stone moved
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because I know all the lies.
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To read a river, read the pools,
this all takes experience,
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years and years of experience.
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That's why people come to the river
and they have a ghillie.
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I was Michael Wigan's
grandmother's ghillie.
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She didn't have any other ghillie
but me.
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My granny was four months fishing
every year for 20 years.
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So I came up every summer,
since I was a kiddie.
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In Scotland, the fishing right
is not attached to a land right.
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So you have the right
as the fishing owner
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to all the animals in that water.
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The only thing Megan wanted to do
was tie flies.
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She was sometimes out
in the summertime,
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maybe at four or five o'clock
in the morning -
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wi' starting to tie flies.
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She used to sit in windows
in front of her
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and she wasn't looking at what she
was doing. It was just automatic.
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It got to the point
where she would look out the window
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and still make the fly, while
she was looking out the window.
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RADIO: 'The shipping forecast
for the next 12 hours.
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'A disturbance near the Hebrides...
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'The coast of Ireland, Wales
and England, winds south-westerly,
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'moderate or fresh locally,
visibility good.
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'The coast of Scotland, winds south,
moderate. Visibility, good.'
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I don't think
I was ever out at her house
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because then the war came
and I got married and I had children
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and Megan was out there
and I was in the village.
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Megan used to ride a motorbike.
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It had handlebars
like a Highland cow.
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They went along the way
and turned out the way, you know?
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As young bairns,
we used to run up the road
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and cheer her as she went past.
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And that was when she used to wear
the khaki and the trousers.
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And I believe she got in the snow.
She went in the ditch.
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There was another chap with
a motorbike and he didn't offer...
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He stopped
but he didn't offer to help her.
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And eventually, when she got it out,
he discovered that she was a lady.
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Megan was a special...
what do you call them?
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Looks out to sea and watches for
aircraft. What you call them again?
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She was a warden.
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This stretch was the stretch
you can see outside her house,
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the beach area,
in case they got invaded.
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It was a listening post, I think,
out there,
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to see what was going on,
watching the seas and the sky.
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RADIO: 'Shetlands, Orkneys
and Faeroes.
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'Winds, southeast,
moderate or fresh, extensive fog.
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'Further outlook, similar.
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'It will be cooler than of late,
ground frost locally at night.
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'Outlook for Saturday,
continuing unsettled.'
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They were works of art - every one.
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So even the local lads,
rather than tie their own,
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were buying from Megan.
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And Megan would charge them then
something like half a crown a fly.
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And then people on the river,
some of the gentry, the toffs,
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got to know about her flies and,
of course, they would offer her more
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to try and get them done quickly.
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I think people realised
that there was something really
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rather rare and special
about her work.
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And she must have known
that she was very,
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very good because people beat
at her door from all over the world.
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Megan must've made hundreds
of thousands of flies.
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Thousands and thousands of flies.
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Because everybody that came
to Helmsdale put an order in
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for flies
and collected them on the way up.
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They... Some people flew up,
others came by car,
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but they all stopped at Megan's
wee house and got their flies.
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She liked to hear the stories
of flies catching big fish.
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Countess of Seafield,
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Caithness Choice,
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Cairngorm, Clydesdale,
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Deffenbecker,
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Dunrobin,
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Lady Wyfold,
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Lady Margaret...
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All the flies that Megan tied
are designed herself.
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My father has a copy of it.
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Megan's Fancy.
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Meg Bill.
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Monsain.
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Monset.
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There was one
that was named The White Lady.
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'The White Lady.
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'Threads of ivory and gold
and pale blue silk.
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'And feathers of white and blue swan.
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'Tail of white silk -
turned once, twice, three times.'
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Everyone is always looking
for the perfect fly, if you like,
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to use the pattern they think
that's going to lure the most fish.
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'Body - one third gold,
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'one third silver
and one third blue floss.'
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I believe people came with bits
of their eyebrows that they
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wanted incorporated into a special
pattern, bits of the family parrot.
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And she had pretty much seen it all.
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'Ribs of oval gold tinsel -
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'turned once, twice, three times.'
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She remarked
on the colour of my hair,
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and she and asked me
for a piece of it.
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I'd have been about 18, 19.
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But it wasn't
a lock of my hair at the time,
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it was a lock of my first hair.
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'Wings - a pair of titbits
and morning dove.'
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I still have a packet
with two feathers that she gave me,
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and I have never dared use them.
And they were like talismans for me.
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'And married strips
of white and blue swan.
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Megan always said to me,
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"Remember, Colin, you're tying flies
for fishermen, not for fish."
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Many times you will fish for a week
and you'll not catch anything.
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And you actually, you start
to wander. Your mind wanders.
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And that is what fishing is really
about, it's not just catching fish.
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It's escaping into something,
which I think anglers feel is
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the real world and not the one that
they have left behind for the day.
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They like to see
their fly work beautifully
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and turn over a beautiful long line,
you know, running across the river,
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with a lovely presentation
of the fly to a certain fish.
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It's almost like calligraphy.
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And there is a magic, even
a bit of black magic, to fishing.
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The thing that really subsumes
the anglers' interest is
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what is going on under the water
where he can't see.
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And you need to swim your fly
and swim your bait in your mind,
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in your imagination,
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right into the fish's mouth.
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When we spay cast,
we use the term kiss the water.
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And we lift and turn
and let the line just kiss
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the water for a second
before we cast it forward.
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The biggest salmon ever caught
was caught by a woman.
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The best fly-fish-caught salmon
was by a woman.
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And the best one-day catch
by any person was by a woman.
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I was seen to climb
out of a bedroom window,
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leaving two very young children, and
go down to the loch with his rod.
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Like most women, I think
we fish in a much gentler way.
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Be as quiet as possible
and not thump the water.
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And also watch the water
all the time.
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I started fishing
when I was about 50.
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And I had had a few casts
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in a river before and I always
thought it was rather boring.
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But then
after my husband and sister died,
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some very kind friends invited me
up to Scotland to fish.
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They were really experienced
salmon fishers,
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and I almost wished I hadn't come
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because they all had lots of fly
boxes and I only had one fly.
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And they all went to places
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where they'd caught fish
the previous year,
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so I wandered further up the river
where nobody was,
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00:38:10,360 --> 00:38:14,000
and I suddenly saw a fish very
near the bank, head and tailing.
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So I said to the head gillie,
"Can I go up there and fish?"
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And he said, "Of course you can,
nobody catches anything up there."
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So I had about three casts
just where I had seen the fish
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and suddenly I felt this tug.
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I called out to the gillie
and my cousin replied,
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"Oh, you're probably hooked
on a branch or something."
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So I just went on, it must've been
about a half an hour,
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and suddenly my fish surfaced a bit.
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Then the gillie came with the net
and there was an enormous silence
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and I said
in this sort of pathetic voice,
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"What are you doing with my fish?"
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And they answered back, "Bloody
hell, we can't get it in the net."
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00:38:56,000 --> 00:39:01,400
And I dropped my rod and walked down
and I saw this absolute monster.
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00:39:01,400 --> 00:39:04,200
And I thought,
"My God, I didn't even..."
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I thought actually
it wasn't a salmon.
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I put my hands up to my face
and I thought, "What have I done?"
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And it was this huge fish.
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00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:15,880
And it turned out
it weighed 45 pounds 6 ounces.
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00:39:15,880 --> 00:39:17,800
And it was a sort of record.
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And there it is in my hall,
hanging up on the wall.
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And I sometimes look at it
and I just can't believe it.
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It was like a gift from heaven.
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00:39:42,160 --> 00:39:44,200
But she never worked on a Sunday.
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You wouldn't go up there on a Sunday
and find her.
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She used to get into her car
on a Sunday and just disappear.
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If she stayed at home on a Sunday,
she knew somebody would come
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to the house and say, "Megan, I'm
short of flies, can you tie me this?
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"Can you make me this?" And
to stop that, she just disappeared.
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There is a place that I remember...
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Glen of the Fairies
sticks in my mind.
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Glen of the Fairies.
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SHOUTING
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DRUMS
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DRUMS AND BAGPIPES
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This is the wonderful thing
about salmon -
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they come down the coast in shoals,
they know their own river,
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00:43:00,960 --> 00:43:03,880
and a lot of these fish will go
within 50 yards
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00:43:03,880 --> 00:43:05,480
of where they were born.
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00:43:11,200 --> 00:43:13,600
A lot of people that came to fish
the river were
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00:43:13,600 --> 00:43:15,360
people of influence, you know.
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00:43:22,720 --> 00:43:25,400
She was a name on everyone's lips
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00:43:25,400 --> 00:43:29,600
because they all used
her devastating flies.
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00:43:52,480 --> 00:43:56,400
I know she got one or two letters
from an agency that used to
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00:43:56,400 --> 00:44:01,320
look after Prince Charles's affairs,
that wrote to her and said,
413
00:44:01,320 --> 00:44:04,720
"could you tie summer flies
for Prince Charles?
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00:44:04,720 --> 00:44:06,200
"But don't tell anybody."
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00:44:18,200 --> 00:44:19,760
'The White Lady.
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00:44:24,480 --> 00:44:29,800
'A tag of oval silver and blue silk.
417
00:44:35,440 --> 00:44:39,120
'A train of blue and white swan.
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00:44:45,440 --> 00:44:49,080
'Bodice of white ostrich.'
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00:44:50,760 --> 00:44:54,800
They used to come very quietly
to the house.
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Nobody knew they had been and gone,
you know?
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'Ribs of oval gold tinsel.
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00:45:00,440 --> 00:45:04,000
'Hackle - yellow and blue swan.'
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00:45:04,000 --> 00:45:07,000
We know that Prince Charles went to
visit her and I bet she would have
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made him sit down on the rickety old
chair just the same as anybody else.
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00:45:13,880 --> 00:45:18,520
Class was nothing to Megan. She used
to call him Charlie. Prince Charlie.
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00:45:22,360 --> 00:45:25,200
The number of times
that she would say,
427
00:45:25,200 --> 00:45:29,800
"You've just missed HRH," which,
of course, was Prince Charles.
428
00:45:36,640 --> 00:45:38,600
'Dear Charlie.
429
00:45:38,600 --> 00:45:40,720
'Best wishes to you and Lady Diana.
430
00:45:42,040 --> 00:45:46,360
'May you enjoy a lifetime
of peace and happiness.
431
00:45:46,360 --> 00:45:49,040
'I have made a special fly
for the occasion that
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00:45:49,040 --> 00:45:51,600
'I would like you to give
to your new wife.
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00:45:51,600 --> 00:45:55,720
'Tell her, "You now have
the best catch you will ever have." '
434
00:46:02,240 --> 00:46:05,560
You know, she had the British Empire
medal awarded to her.
435
00:46:05,560 --> 00:46:07,840
And she wrote to the Queen
and told the Queen,
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00:46:07,840 --> 00:46:10,320
"Dear Elizabeth, I can't come
because I am playing bridge
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00:46:10,320 --> 00:46:12,120
"on Saturday night."
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00:46:12,120 --> 00:46:15,920
I said to Megan, I says,
"Are you going down to collect it
439
00:46:15,920 --> 00:46:19,880
"from the Queen?" She says, "No, I'm
not going down." I said, "Why not?"
440
00:46:19,880 --> 00:46:23,120
She says,
"Who's going to look after my dog?"
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00:46:23,120 --> 00:46:25,120
A dog called Patch.
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00:46:25,120 --> 00:46:28,560
And Megan got a nice letter
back from the Queen, stating,
443
00:46:28,560 --> 00:46:31,640
"Well, sorry you couldn't come,
this is why you were awarded
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00:46:31,640 --> 00:46:34,520
"the Empire medal.
And PS - how did your evening go?"
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00:46:48,040 --> 00:46:49,440
'Popham.
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00:46:51,560 --> 00:46:52,840
'Tag.
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00:46:54,200 --> 00:46:56,840
'Silver tinsel.
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00:46:56,840 --> 00:46:58,160
'Tail.
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00:46:59,240 --> 00:47:01,960
'A topping and Indian crow.'
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00:47:03,120 --> 00:47:06,000
They were tied for fishing,
not for putting in frames.
451
00:47:06,000 --> 00:47:09,080
'One third orange floss,
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00:47:09,080 --> 00:47:11,960
'one third yellow floss.'
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00:47:11,960 --> 00:47:15,840
They're all for use, to catch fish,
they never were for framing.
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00:47:18,560 --> 00:47:21,440
'Wings of married strands of bustard.
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00:47:23,000 --> 00:47:24,760
'Florican.
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00:47:24,760 --> 00:47:26,520
'Peacock wing.
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00:47:26,520 --> 00:47:32,560
'Scarlet...
No, orange and yellow swan.'
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00:47:40,240 --> 00:47:42,960
To take a fish out of water
and kill it...
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00:47:42,960 --> 00:47:45,320
Oh, no, I couldn't do that.
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00:47:45,320 --> 00:47:49,120
In fact, that is only thing
she said to me about her business -
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00:47:49,120 --> 00:47:51,480
that she's making things
that killed fish.
462
00:47:52,800 --> 00:47:56,680
She hated the thought that a fly,
a fishing fly killed a fish.
463
00:48:01,680 --> 00:48:03,840
And that's why
she never went fishing.
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00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,240
I've often said
that you can teach a man to fish
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00:48:13,240 --> 00:48:16,360
and you will show him how to wish
the rest of his life away.
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00:48:27,920 --> 00:48:30,560
The classic salmon fly itself,
unfortunately,
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00:48:30,560 --> 00:48:33,960
as good as it is to look at,
once you have fished with it,
468
00:48:33,960 --> 00:48:36,520
you know, it really does mess up
the feathers.
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00:48:51,840 --> 00:48:54,160
A lot of these feathers were
available then
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and are no longer available now
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00:48:56,200 --> 00:48:59,480
because some of the birds
have gone out of existence.
472
00:49:17,280 --> 00:49:20,840
Trends changed and everybody wanted
hairwing flies because,
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00:49:20,840 --> 00:49:22,800
A - they were cheaper,
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00:49:22,800 --> 00:49:25,040
and the feather wings
went out of fashion.
475
00:49:28,560 --> 00:49:31,200
Hairwing fly -
you can tie one in ten minutes.
476
00:49:31,200 --> 00:49:33,280
There is no married wing.
477
00:49:33,280 --> 00:49:37,080
There's not the same amount
of material going into the fly.
478
00:49:37,080 --> 00:49:41,360
We started using squirrel tail,
deer hair, buck tail.
479
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:44,920
We could dye them all and they were
stronger than feathers.
480
00:49:47,280 --> 00:49:50,040
And I remember her tying me
a Hairy Mary and she said,
481
00:49:50,040 --> 00:49:54,600
"The wing must be from a roe deer
in its summer coat."
482
00:49:54,600 --> 00:49:57,840
Now, I was told that the original
wing for the Hairy Mary
483
00:49:57,840 --> 00:50:01,800
came from the pubic hair
of a barmaid in Inverness in 1961.
484
00:50:04,360 --> 00:50:06,880
Nowadays,
a lot of the people use superglue
485
00:50:06,880 --> 00:50:09,000
and stick the stuff onto a hook.
486
00:50:11,640 --> 00:50:13,040
Now it's like a...
487
00:50:14,600 --> 00:50:16,520
Fishing with a shaving brush.
488
00:50:22,040 --> 00:50:24,400
She probably thought that the
hairwing flies
489
00:50:24,400 --> 00:50:26,320
were an insult to her ability.
490
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:32,280
She had to keep tying flies.
491
00:50:33,520 --> 00:50:35,720
Cos she had to, it was in her blood.
492
00:50:53,960 --> 00:50:58,000
I fished for about 20 years, and
every year I saw there were fewer
493
00:50:58,000 --> 00:50:59,560
and fewer fish coming back.
494
00:51:00,800 --> 00:51:03,120
There's lots of talk
about global warming
495
00:51:03,120 --> 00:51:05,960
and how it is affecting
the migratory routes.
496
00:51:09,160 --> 00:51:12,560
I'm aware, you know, the numbers
that they have produced
497
00:51:12,560 --> 00:51:15,640
about collapsing salmon runs,
but we haven't seen that.
498
00:51:15,640 --> 00:51:19,120
And in fact, in the North Highlands,
we have a counter,
499
00:51:19,120 --> 00:51:23,400
an electronic means of counting fish
going over an electric beam...
500
00:51:24,600 --> 00:51:28,200
And our counter says
that the runs are steady.
501
00:51:34,360 --> 00:51:36,960
Everywhere, not just in Iceland -
502
00:51:36,960 --> 00:51:40,720
we looked up what is happening
in Norway and Scotland -
503
00:51:40,720 --> 00:51:43,200
the stocks are going down
and I said, "Oh, my God,
504
00:51:43,200 --> 00:51:45,480
"they're going to disappear."
505
00:51:51,320 --> 00:51:54,280
Pattern two... This is Megan's.
506
00:51:54,280 --> 00:51:57,080
"Tag - silver oval.
507
00:51:57,080 --> 00:52:00,560
"Tail -
topping and teal green parrot.
508
00:52:00,560 --> 00:52:04,960
"Body - 1/5 yellow seal,
1/5 orange seal,
509
00:52:04,960 --> 00:52:09,240
"1/5 red seal and 2/5 blue seal.
510
00:52:09,240 --> 00:52:12,440
"Wing - two strands of bustard,
511
00:52:12,440 --> 00:52:17,680
"blue and yellow swan with
broad strip of red swan on top.
512
00:52:17,680 --> 00:52:19,800
"Finish off with a head of..."
513
00:52:24,240 --> 00:52:26,600
I went wrong.
514
00:52:35,840 --> 00:52:37,440
It didn't happen overnight.
515
00:52:37,440 --> 00:52:41,720
I mean, it just came on
and it just got worse and worse.
516
00:52:47,960 --> 00:52:52,120
In fact, my mum knew she was losing
her eyesight long before I...
517
00:52:52,120 --> 00:52:53,400
before I did.
518
00:52:55,320 --> 00:52:59,720
It was heartbreaking, really,
because she had got such a talent.
519
00:52:59,720 --> 00:53:03,440
And to have her eyesight being taken
away because of her talent...
520
00:53:09,200 --> 00:53:12,080
She didn't have electricity
in the house. You know,
521
00:53:12,080 --> 00:53:16,120
she's a fly tier and she needs
all the light in the world, you see.
522
00:53:16,120 --> 00:53:17,720
No wonder she went blind.
523
00:53:28,320 --> 00:53:30,200
She did tie flies.
She did tie a few.
524
00:53:30,200 --> 00:53:32,160
You know,
you can tie a fly in the dark,
525
00:53:32,160 --> 00:53:35,200
even now, as long as you have
the materials at hand.
526
00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,840
You know, your fingertips
are incredibly sensitive,
527
00:53:37,840 --> 00:53:40,800
fly tiers' especially.
You know, it's like a great pianist.
528
00:53:49,240 --> 00:53:51,080
She could only make out shadows.
529
00:53:54,120 --> 00:53:57,120
Then shortly after that,
she went into a home.
530
00:54:05,880 --> 00:54:07,120
She went into the village,
531
00:54:07,120 --> 00:54:09,600
but I don't think
she really enjoyed it there.
532
00:54:09,600 --> 00:54:11,480
It wasn't her environment.
533
00:54:25,720 --> 00:54:30,840
She used to hold my hand all the
time when we were talking and so on.
534
00:54:30,840 --> 00:54:36,680
And I remember she told me
about the Prince of Wales.
535
00:54:38,840 --> 00:54:41,560
His favourite fly was called
the Popham.
536
00:54:47,120 --> 00:54:50,560
I came to see her one day
and she was sleeping on the chair.
537
00:54:50,560 --> 00:54:52,840
And I said, "I'll come back."
And her neighbour said,
538
00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,640
"No, no, she has been waiting
all morning for you."
539
00:55:01,080 --> 00:55:04,240
There was a little frame of flies
on top of the television,
540
00:55:04,240 --> 00:55:06,840
and in the middle was a Popham.
541
00:55:06,840 --> 00:55:09,280
And I asked her
what the flies were for
542
00:55:09,280 --> 00:55:11,400
and she said they were for a toff.
543
00:55:13,400 --> 00:55:17,760
He wanted to take her to London
to try and save her sight.
544
00:55:17,760 --> 00:55:20,160
And she went,
but only on one condition,
545
00:55:20,160 --> 00:55:23,040
that he personally would meet her
at the other end.
546
00:55:30,760 --> 00:55:34,160
And, of course, Megan went down,
he did meet her.
547
00:55:34,160 --> 00:55:36,240
And obviously took her to hospital,
548
00:55:36,240 --> 00:55:38,040
and they couldn't save her sight.
549
00:56:07,480 --> 00:56:09,720
She kept shouting, "Die, die, die!"
550
00:56:11,320 --> 00:56:13,600
That's all I can tell you
about that.
551
00:56:22,800 --> 00:56:24,720
If you ask a fish,
the fish would say,
552
00:56:24,720 --> 00:56:27,480
"Please, I would like to be released
rather than killed."
553
00:56:27,480 --> 00:56:29,320
There you go.
554
00:56:33,760 --> 00:56:35,160
I'd like to return him.
555
00:56:36,480 --> 00:56:37,920
Thank you.
556
00:57:15,840 --> 00:57:20,640
The water in Scotland doesn't
actually belong to anyone at all.
557
00:57:33,440 --> 00:57:36,200
I hope we never discover actually
558
00:57:36,200 --> 00:57:39,560
what it is
that makes a salmon take a fly -
559
00:57:39,560 --> 00:57:42,160
a bunch of feathers on a piece of metal.
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