British Women Own Salmon Records

Wilma Paterson, the author of Salmon and Women, The Feminine Angle, suggests international fly fishing opportunities for women, encouraging involvement with this note: “It is well known — if seldom mentioned in the male angling fraternity — that three women hold the most coveted British salmon fishing records: for the biggest salmon ever caught on rod and line (Georgina Ballantyne), the biggest salmon ever caught on fly (Clementina Morison) and the biggest spring salmon (Doreen Davey).” In Scotland’s Sunday Herald.