KINLOCH CASTLE ISLE OF RUM FISHING BOOK
Lord Salisbury's Dam
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ROCK-CUT CANAL SYSTEM
(September 2000)
(September 2000)
However, in 1886, the year the 26,400 acre island came up for sale, acclaimed Scottish ornithologist and naturalist, forty-two year old John Alexander Harvie-Brown, F.R.S.E., F.Z.S., was a prospective purchaser. Highly skeptical of the selling agents glowing description, Harvie-Brown sought the advice of his agent; who in reply wrote he could find “not a single redeeming feature” about the island.
Regards the fishing he was scathing; the freshwater lochs were “inaccessible” and the rivers had been spoilt fifty years earlier by Lord Salisbury’s failed attempt to redress the fact, “there are no salmon ... ... ... ...”
John Bullough was the youngest of the three sons of James Bullough,
founder in 1853 of the family business, Howard & Bullough, Ltd.,
Cotton Machinery Manufacturers, Accrington, Lancashire, England,
his eldest son, George, (later Sir George), was born on 28 February 1870
and inherited the island of Rum upon his father's death.
Needless to say after several years of renting the sporting rights John Bullough would have been aware of Rum’s limitations. As an astute business man adept at recognising opportunity he bought the island!
The first and only recorded Sea Trout caught in Long Loch was on 13 September 1934.
( Photograph September 2000)
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The 26,400 acre island comprises “150 acres of freshwater lochs and rivers plus 530 acres of foreshore”. The 1886 Sale Details describe “the fishings (as) excellent, the island's numerous lochs being fully stocked with trout, and streams affording capital sea-trout fishing during the season.” (from 1886 Sales Description.)
The Fishing Book records date, angler, location, number of fish caught by species, (Salmon / Grilse* / Sea Trout / Brown Trout), total weight of catch, weight of largest, plus “Remarks” column.
* A Grilse is an Atlantic salmon which has spent
only one winter at sea before returning to the river in which it was born.
One pound = 453 grams. One ounce (oz.) = 28 grams.
John Bullough died on 25 February 1891.
In his Will he left the island of Rum to his eldest son, George.
In September 1892, twenty-two year old George Bullough,
accompanied by his friend, Robert Mitchell,
boarded the 6,610 ton liner S.S. Oceana on a three year long world tour.
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George Bullough, (1870 - 1939), later Sir George Bullough, Baronet of Rum, commissioned construction of his Highland hunting lodge,
Kinloch Castle in 1897, it was completed in early1900.
The halcyon years were all too few, cut short with the outbreak of World War I.
Saved from demolition due to its remote island location,
the post-war fate of many of its mainland contemporaries,
it still remains a unique, fully furnished time capsule of the Edwardian Era.
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IMPORTANT NOTE:
Coloured backgrounds have been used to highlight the
written record. All pages are from actual photographs,
(pre-digital), therefore there was a leap of faith
until prints were made regards focus and quality .
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Opening page of the Isle of Rum Fishing Book -
The “Mr. Bullough” in “Mr. Bullough and Guests” in the “Caught by” column for years 1893, 1894 and 1895 must refer to George Bullough’s uncle, Tom;
George having embarked on his three year long World Grand Tour on 29 September 1892.
Sailing from Gravesend, England, on the P & O liner, Oceana, he arrived at Colombo, Ceylon, (today Sri Lanka), via the Suez Canal twenty-three days later on 23 October,
a distance of 11,580 nautical miles.
was chairman of the family business,
Howard & Bullough, Cotton Machinery Manufacturers, Globe Works,
Accrington, Lancashire, England.
John Bullough's failing health in the months prior to his death, February 1891, necessitated him handing over managerial roles throughout the works to highly experienced managers, placing Tom Bullough as head of directors,
which he retained until his death.
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George returned to Rum briefly in September 1895; the Isle of Rum Deer Forest book recording George Bullough shooting a ten point stag at Bridenoch on the 27th of that month
before taking “a six month long supplementary cruise”
on his newly acquired 857 ton steam yacht, Rhouma.
Ashcroft and Sinclair were gamekeepers on the island.
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The Fishing Book records fill 143 pages, covering years 1893 to 1978.
Over that period only three Grilse are recorded as caught; the first, weighing 5-lbs. 10 ounces,
by Major Gore Laugton on 27 August 1923 on Kinloch Burn. The second, also Kinloch River,
by Colonel Scott Duff on 8 September 1934 weighed 5-lbs. 12 ounces.
On 17 September 1963 a 7-lb. Grilse was caught on Kinloch River.
Similarly, only two salmon are recorded, both in 1961.
The first, using worms as bait, was caught by Mr. R. Sivewright on Kinloch River on
14 July, weighed 9-lbs. 12 ounces.
one pound and 12 ounces.
Sir George's last recorded success was on 31 August 1937 when he caught a one pound brown trout on Loch Dornabac, one of the island’s most prolific lochs.
NORTH SIDE LOCHS - LOCH KAFFIR, MITCHELL, GEORDIE AND BOAT HOUSE.
The second Boer War, 1 October 1899 - 31 May 1902, also known as the Anglo Boer War, was fought between forces of the British Empire and the South African Republic and Orange Free State. British complacency as to a speedy and successful outcome was soon proved wrong
as a better organised and determined opponent on home ground, resulted in the war dragging on for over two more years using guerilla tactics.
With rapidly rising British casualties, many through injury, many more from typhoid fever,
private individuals and groups endeavored to fill the severe shortage of official medical resources.
George Bullough immediately loaned his yacht, Rhouma, as a hospital ship, sailing and remaining with her in Table Bay. A twenty bed ward was erected on the hurricane deck, Bullough supplying a doctor, nurses, beds, bedding and comforts during the time the yacht remained in South Africa.
In July 1900 Rhouma sailed home to Rum with some still recuperating officers on board,
they became first guests at Kinloch Castle.
Thirty year old George Bullough joins recuperating soldiers in one of his yacht Rhouma's life boats for a short trip round her mooring in Cape Town's Table Bay.
Rhouma, was loaned to the British Authorities as a hospital ship for the first seven months of 1900.
At the close of the war British dead were over 22,000, Boer dead almost 6,200.
Over 75,000 British returned home sick or wounded.
George Bullough was knighted on 21 December 1901 by King Edward VII “… for patriotic devotion in equipping
and placing Rhouma at the disposal of the Imperial Authorities …”
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Captains Mason, Baker, Kirkwood, Christie, Kinnard, Homfray, Major Lynch.
September / October 1902
Officers from Torpedo Boats.
Page 18. Period 15 June - 20 June 1913.
(Megalops atlanticus), one of warm saltwater's great game fish,
during a cruise in Caribbean waters.
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AS A RESULT OF THE ENTRY FOR
MISS GLADIS BULLOUGH AND MASTERCLYDE BEECH
ON THE FOLLOWING PAGE
I HAVE INCLUDED SOME FAMILY BACKGROUND : -
27 August to 10 September 1908.
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Miss Gladys Bullough, born 1888, (and Ian Bullough, born 1886), were brother and sister, and respectively paternal half-sister and half-brother to Sir George Bullough following their father's remarriage to Alexandra Marion Mackenzie in 1884.
Master Clyde Beech,
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Some names from the Fishing Book 1907 to 1914:
1907/1908: Captain Count de la Pasture, Mr. Clark, Mr. Digby, Captain the Honourable Graham Murray (son of Scottish politician and High Court Judge Andrew Graham Murray, 1st Viscount Dunedin), Major Farquhar, the Honourable Nelson Hood a descendant of William Nelson, 2nd. Duke of Bronte and elder brother and heir of Admiral Horatio Nelson), Mr. Sandford, Mr. Hinton, Captain Fenwick, Mr. Goodall, Mr. Cholmondeley, Mr. Dempster, Captain Peacocke.
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NOTE: Mr. Sandford drew a pencil sketch of the Bullough's eleven month old daughter, Hermione, which was displayed in Lady Bullough's Drawing Room.
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1909/1910: Captain Count de la Pasture, Mr. Reed, Mr. Herbert, Mr. Goodall, Mrs. Yorke, Lieutenant F. Cadogan, Mrs. Reed, Major Farquhar, Lady Bullough, Captain Tristram.
1911/1912: Mr. Pole, Mrs. McNeil, Captain Symons, Mr. Gillivray, Lady Bullough, Dr. Johnstone, Mr. Henry de la Pasture, Major Farquhar, Mr. Cholmondelly.
1913/1914: Mr. Greswold Williams, Dr. Knight, Mr. Wallace, Mr. Campbell, and Game Keepers ...
Sir George and Party caught their last pre-war fish at Loch Dornabeg
and Kinloch Bay on 18 July 1914.
Throughout 1915, 1916 and 1917 recorded fishing continued by Keepers only.
YEAR 1919
The 1919 Record covers three pages: 63, 64 and part of 65.
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Guest fishing resumes following cessation of Great War. Named Rods for the twenty-four fishing days from 25 July - 16 August 1919:
the Marquis de la Pasture, Mr. John Whittam, Mr. Hinkey, Dr. Knight, Keepers,
Major and Mrs. Ian Bullough, (Percy) Hills - Head Gardener.
Total catch for 1919: 21 Sea Trout, 201 Brown Trout.
1920
Eighteen fishing day commencing 15 May and concluding 15 September.
Rods: Sir George Bullough (1 day), J. L. Waugh (1), Johnston (1), Davenport (1),
Keepers (14 days).
Total catch: 6 Sea Trout, 57 Brown Trout. Total weight: 55-lbs. 10 ounces.
YEAR 1921
Thirteen fishing day commencing 11 May and concluding 5 September.
Rods: Sir George Bullough (1 day), Miss Hermione Bullough (1), A. Wallace (1),
Mrs. Thompson (1), Keepers (12 days).
Total catch: 2 Sea Trout, 137 Brown Trout. Total weight: 48-lbs. 2 ounces.
YEAR 1922
Built 1902. G. L. Watson design. 267 tons. Length 140ft. Beam 20ft. Draft 12½ft.
A slightly small vessel than Sir George Bullough's second SY Rhouma (ex Triton)
by the same designer and also built 1902.
As a requisitioned Armed Yacht in World War I Ombra carried two 3-lb. guns.
YEAR 1923
10 August - 27 August 1923: On 27th Sir George and Lady Bullough’s daughter, Hermione, catches a thirteen ounce sea trout and the following day six brown trout, the heaviest 10 ounces, in Kinloch Burn. On 5th and 12th September respectively Hermione landed a 2-lb. 3oz. brown trout and one pound sea trout.
Caught using a Jock Scott Dress Fly, Major Gore Laugton’s Grilse weighed 5-lb. 10 ounces.
Total catch for 1923: 1 Grilse, 28 Sea Trout, 324 Brown Trout. Total weight: 157-lbs.
YEAR 1924
Guests included: Captain Gregson Ellis, Miss Bedford, Mr. John Whittam, Major Guest, Mr. Town, Mrs. Brebner (factor’s wife), Mr. Lewis, plus Keepers and Sir George and Lady Bullough.
Total weight of 180 brown trout: 110-lbs. 1 ounce. - Average: 10 ounces.
Total weight of 51 sea trout: 37-lbs. 15 ounces. - Average: 11¾ ounces.
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YEAR 1925
Guests included: Mr. Burton and Major Blue - Yacht Merry Maid, Marquis de la Pasture,
Mr. Town, Mr. Brebner (factor), Sir William Bass, plus Keepers and
Sir George and Lady Bullough.
Total weight of 172 brown trout: 67-lbs. 3 ounces. - Average: 6¾ ounces.
Total weight of 94 sea trout: 124-lbs. 3 ounces. - Average: 5½ ounces.
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YEAR 1926
Guests included: Mr. Head, Mr. Brebner, Mr. Mulsbury, Mr. Lowther, Sir William Bass,
Captain Jenkinson, Mr. Dunlop, Mr. Town, plus Keepers and Sir George Bullough.
Total weight of 270 brown trout 102-lbs. 2 ounces. - Average: 6½ ounces.
Total weight of 61 Sea Trout 69-lbs. 2 ounces. - Average: 1-lb. 2 ounces.
PAGE 83. 7 - 18 August 1926.
YEAR 1927
Guests included: Factor Wallace Brebner, Mr. Waugh, Mr. Mullsbury, Mr. Town,
Sir William Bass, 20 year old Honourable Esmé
Glyn (daughter of 4th Baron Wolverton and granddaughter 1st Earl of Dudley), Keepers, 20 year old Hermione Bullough,
(Hermione was twenty-one on 5 November 1927)
Sir George and Lady Bullough.
Total weight 483 brown trout 162-lbs. 9 ounces. - Average: 5 ounces.
Total weight 44 sea trout 44-lbs. - Average: 1-lb.
YEAR 1928
Guests included: Mr. Town, Mr. Johnstone, Honourable Esmé Glyn (daughter of 4th Baron Wolverton and granddaughter 1st Earl of Dudley), Factor Brebner,
twenty year old Honourable Diana Allsopp (daughter Charles Allsopp, 3rd Baron Hindclip), twenty-two year old Honourable Peter Tufton (son of John Tufton 2nd Baron Hotfield and Lady Irene Hastings, daughter of Francis Hastings 14th Earl of Huntingdon),
Sir George, Lady and (daughter) Hermione Bullough , Keepers.
Total weight 261 brown trout 102-lbs. 15 ounces. - Average: 8 ounces.
Total weight 44 sea trout 16-lbs. 4 ounces - Average: 1-lb. 5 ounces.
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YEAR 1929
Shooting guests included: Mr. Carlow, Mr. Malsbury, twenty year old Lady Jane Egerton
daughter of John Egerton, 4th Earl Ellesmere, married Richard Ladislas Scrope 1934 (Scropes’ of Castle Bolton, Wensleydale), Sir George, Lady and (daughter) Hermione Bullough, Keepers.
Total weight 700 brown trout 203-lbs. 8 ounces. - Average: 4½ ounces.
Total weight 32 sea trout 36-lbs. 10 ounces - Average: 1-lb. 8 ounces.
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YEAR 1930
Records commenced 31 May and concluded 31 October.
Rods: Mr. Hogarth (1 day), Mr. Wright (1), Sir William Bass (1), Keepers (37),
Sir George Bullough (10 days: 23 - 28 June, 28 - 30 August). During which-
27 Sea Trout weighing 32-lbs. 13 ounces, average 1-lb. 13 ounces and
372 Brown Trout weighing141-lbs. 6 ounces, average 6 ounces, are recorded.
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YEAR 1931
Book records: “Very little fishing done.”
Fifteen days commenced 23 April concluded 2 October.
Rods: Mr. Wright (3) and Keepers (13) only.
6 Sea Trout weighing 9-lbs. 8 ounces, average 1-lb. 8 ounces and 88 Brown Trout weighing
37-lbs. average 6¾ ounces.
YEAR 1932
Twenty fishing days commenced 23 April concluded 17 September.
Rods: Miss Rhodes (3 days), Mr. Wright (4), Mrs. Danials (2), Major Ian Bullough (2),
Sir George Bullough (7), Keepers (5).
141 Brown Trout weighing 63-lbs. 8 ounces. Average 7 ounces.
1 Sea Trout weighed 8 ounces.
“Only one half day fishing on the burn for sea trout.”
YEAR 1933
Twenty-six fishing days commenced 5 May and concluded 28 August.
Rods: Mr. Dempster (1 day), Keepers (20), Sir George Bullough and Party (2),
Sir George Bullough (5).
228 Brown Trout weighing 98-lbs. 14 ounces. Average 7 ounces.
2 Sea Trout weighed 5-lbs. 4 ounces,
heaviest 3-lbs. 4 ounces, “largest caught on Boat House Loch” by Keepers on last day.
YEAR 1934
Twenty-five fishing days commenced 1 June and concluded 8 October.
Rods: Keepers (8 days), Net keepers (1), Sir George Bullough (4), Miss Rhodes (1),
Mr. Wright (8),
Lady Durham (formerly Hermione Bullough) and Miss Rhodes (1), Sir William Bass (1),
Colonel Scott Duff (1
– Arthur Abercrombie Scott-Duff, 1874-1951, was a Lieutenant-Colonel in the 1st
Gordon Highlanders attached to the 6th Gordon Highlanders),
Lord Glanusk (1 - Wilfred Russell Bailey, 1881-1948, served as a Colonel in the Grenadier Guards. He succeeded as Lord Glanusk in 1928. His ancestral home, Glanusk house and Estate, he left to his daughter, Dame Elizabeth Shân Legge-Bourke
(her daughter, Tiggy Legge-Bourke, was nanny to Prince William and Prince Harry).
83 Brown Trout weighing 38-lbs. 2 ounces. Average 7 ounces.
23 Sea Trout weighed 55-lbs. 4 ounces. Average 2-lbs. 6 ounces.
On 8 September, Colonel Scott-Duff landed a 5-lb. 12 ounce Grilse on Kinloch River, the second of only three recorded in the Fishing Book.
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YEAR 1935
Commenced 26 April and concluded 23 September over twenty-eight fishing days
the following rods: Keepers (13 days + Net 1 day), Mr. Wright (10), Miss Rhodes (1),
Sir George Bullough (3 days: 19, 26 August and 14 September) landed:
141 Brown Trout weighing 58-lbs. 2 ounces. Average “over 6½ ounces”.
29 Sea Trout total weight 47-lbs. 8 ounces. Average 1-lb. 10 ounces.
1936
Over fifteen days commencing 3 June and concluding 8 October the following ten individual and parties of Guns: Keepers (10 days); Sir George Bullough (3); Mr. Wright (3);
Miss Lambton/Mr. Williamson (1); Mrs. Anstruther Gray (1 day) née Monica Helen Lambton, only child of Geoffrey Lambton second son of 4th Earl of Durham, husband of Sir George and Lady Bullough’s daughter, Hermione;
Captain Claud Lambton (1) third son of 4th Earl of Durham; Captain Lancashire Yeomanry ; Captain Lambton/A. J. Anstruther Gray/R. Scrope, esq. (1);
Lady Jane Scrope (née Lady Jane Egerton daughter of John Egerton 4th Earl Ellesmere,
married Richard Ladislas Scrope in1934 - Scrope’s of Castle Bolton, Wensleydale, -
and Mrs. Anstruther Gray (1); Mr. andMrs. Anstruther Gray (1).
93 Brown Trout weighed 45-lbs. 3 ounces. Average: 8+ ounces.
8 Sea Trout weighed 12-lbs. 14 ounces. Average 1-lb. 4 ounces.
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1937
Another fifteen fishing day season commencing 29 June and concluding 30 September.
The six individual and party rods were:
Keepers (10 days), Mr. Wright (1), Mr. Dempster (1) Mrs. Claud Lambton (2),
Lady (Hermione) Durham and
Mrs. Claud Lambton (née Olive Eleanor Lockwood, sisters-in-law)
fished one day at Long Loch caught four brown trout, heaviest 1½-lbs.
Sir George Bullough died in July 1939 his last recorded fishing success,
was a 1-lb. brown trout on Loch Dornabeg.
81 Brown Trout weighed 30-lbs. 12 ounces. Average: 6 ounces.
11 Sea Trout weighed 12-lbs. 10 ounces. Average 1-lb. 2 ounces.
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YEAR 1938
1939 and 1940 NO FISHING
The last fishing season on Rum before outbreak of World War II.
Over fourteen days between 16 August and 18 October, three guest guns: Mr. Dempster (1 day), Mr. Wright (2), Honourable John George Lambton (one day - 6 September, one 12 ounce Sea Trout), plus Keepers (12 days) caught:
25 Brown Trout weighed 13-lbs. 2 ounces. Average: 8 ounces.
25 Sea Trout weighed 42-lbs. 8 ounces. Average 1-lb.11 ounces.
YEAR 1941
In this, the third year of hostilities, six days of fishing commenced on 13 September
until 24 September.
Rods: Keepers (1 day), Mr. MacKenzie (4),
and party of: Mr. MacKenzie, Warrant Officer S. G. Pratt, R.N., and Sub-Lieutenant Cassidy,
on last day at Loch Sandy Corrie (Loch Fiachanais) caught 36 Brown Trout.
Total catch: 98 Brown Trout weighing 47-lbs. 2 ounces. Average: 7¾ ounces.
One Sea Trout caught Long Loch weighed 2-lbs. 4 ounces.
YEARS 1942 / 1943
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YEAR 1944
YEAR 1944
Britain still in the grip of World War II.
Five years since the death of Sir George Bullough.
On 7 April 1944 Lady Bullough celebrated her 75th birthday.
Between 12 July and 28 September the three named rods, (Eric Dempster, Miss Rhodes, and Head Keeper Duncan Macnaughton), fished on eleven days and caught a total of:
24 Sea Trout and 81 Brown Trout the total weight of which was 65-lbs. 6 ounces.
Average weight Sea Trout: 1-lb. 4ounces * Average weight Brown Trout: 8 ounces.
YEAR 1946
No fishing.
YEAR 1947
The eleven fishing days in 1947 ran from 30 May to 22 September during which Hermione Lady Durham and her now fifteen year old son, Master John Durham each caught a 1-lb. Sea Trout in Kinloch Burn on 10 and 13 September respectively. Remaining rods Keepers.
Totals: Sea Trout and Brown Trout 99, total weight 98-lbs. 10 ounces.
Average of 59 Sea Trout 1-lb. 7 ounces. * Average 33 Brown Trout 6 ounces.
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YEAR 1948
Six fishing days commencing 15 June and concluding 7 September.
Six fishing days commencing 15 June and concluding 7 September.
Guest Mr. Brauch with head keeper Duncan Macnaughton caught nine Sea Trout at Caves Bay on 28 August, total weight 12-lbs. 8 ounces and three brown trout on Loch Mitchell total weight 3-lbs. 5 ounces on 8 September. Remaining four days Keepers.
Total weight of 13 Sea Trout and 50 Brown Trout 36-lbs. 1 ounce.
Average of 13 Sea Trout 1-lb. 5 ounces * Average 50 Brown Trout 6 ounces.
Remarks column: "Very little fishing done."
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YEAR 1949
Commencing 14 May the eighteen days of fishing concluded on 8 September.
Apart from regular guest, Miss Rhodes, (9 August, Loch Dornabeg, 2 brown trout),
Keepers were the only rods in 1949.
Catch: Brown Trout 74 average 6 ounces. * 25 Sea Trout average 1-lb. 7 ounces.
Total weight: 62-lbs. 3 ounces.
YEAR 1950
Rods: Keepers (12 days), Mrs. Thompson and Party (2), Honourable M. E. Joicey* (1).
Catch: 30 Sea Trout - 44-lbs. + 45 Brown Trout - 18-lbs. 14 ounces., total weight: 62-lbs. 14 ounces.
Average weights: Sea Trout 1-lb. 7 ounces * Brown Trout: 7 ounces.
* The Honourable Michael Edward Joicey, (from 1966 4th Baron Joicey), was born in 1925, the younger son of Lieutenant Colonel Hugh Edward, the 3rd Baron; his elder brother, Lieutenant David Joicey, Coldstream Guards, dying without issue in 1943 from wounds received in Italy during World War I. A Liberal Politician and coal mining magnate, John Joicey, (1846-1936), was created first Baron Joicey in 1906. Michael Edward married Lady Joan Lambton (1893-1967), youngest daughter of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of Durham; her brother, John Frederick Lambton, 5th Earl of Durham, married Sir George and Lady Bullough's daughter, Hermione, in March 1931. The family seat is Etal Manor on the Ford Castle, and ruined 14th century Etal Castle estate in the north of England county of Northumberland.
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YEAR 1951
CAPTAIN J. M. PEARSON'S PARTY
had exclusive Fishing, Game and Stalking rites in 1951.
Successful rods recorded: Master Malcolm Pearson, Mrs. Pearson, Captain J. M. Pearson,
Colonel J. Black, Mrs. Paterson, A. R. Paterson, Mrs. and Captain Gregory, R.N.,
Vice-Admiral Norman, Captain Du-Boulay, plus Head Keeper Duncan Macnaughton.
(Names in italics are successful Pearson Party members recorded in the
Deer, Game and Fishing books.)
Captain J. M. Pearson was most likely John MacLaren Pearson, later Colonel, and owner of the12,000 acre Cruach Estate, Rannoch, Scotland. His Eton educated son, Master Malcolm Pearson, born July1942, would have been just nine years old when he opened Rum's Fishing Season on 5 August 1951 by landing three sea trout from Long Loch.
Today, Master Malcolm is a British businessman, former leader of the U.K. Independence Party and sits as an independent member of the House of Lords as Baron Pearson of Rannoch.
Captain Du-Boulay is Ernest George Houssemayne Du-Boulay born on 23 December 1882,
his younger brother, Charles John Houssemayne Du-Boulay on 20 April 1894.
Their father was retired Royal Engineers colonel, Woodforde George Houssemayne Du-Boulay. Both sons served in the forces, Charles John being promoted Commander in 1934,
whilst Ernest George was made Group Captain in the Royal Air Force based at Allied Expeditionary Force Supreme Headquarters
in liberated France. He was present at the German surrender at Rheims.
Captain Du-Boulay is recorded as shooting a seven point stag on Kilmory Hill on 3 September 1951 in the Isle of Rum Deer Forest Book.
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YEAR 1952
The only rod recorded is forty-five year old Hermione Countess of Durham.
Only sea trout in Kinloch Bay were fished, no brown trout fishing.
Total catch 10 Sea Trout, total weight 15-lbs. 15 ounces.
Heaviest 3-lbs. 8 ounces caught 2 September.
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YEAR 1953
Seven fishing days commencing 15 August, concluding 30 September during which four named Rods: Hermione Countess of Durham, her eleven year old son the Honourable J. G. Lambton and two Keepers (brothers), Duncan and George Macnaughton, caught 16 Sea Trout with a total weight of 22-lbs. 6 ounces, average 1-lb. 6¼ ounces. The heaviest, 3-lbs. 2 ounces, caught by Hermione in Kinloch Bay on 3 September. Record shows no brown trout fishing done.
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YEAR 1954
Head Keeper Duncan Macnaughton (16 days) and his brother George (2) individually and together on one day, caught 15 Sea Trout weighing 24-lbs. 9 ounces (Average 1-lb. 10 ounces)
and 43 Brown Trout weighing 38-lbs. 9 ounces (Average 14 ounces).
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YEAR 1955
52 Sea Trout - total weight; - 53-lbs. 14 ounces. Average weight: 1-lb. ½ ounce.
68 Brown Trout - total weight; 38-lbs. 2 ounces. Average weight: 9 ounces.
The heaviest Sea Trout was caught by net at the mouth of the Kilmory River by Head Keeper Duncan Macnaughton on 23 July and weighed 8-lbs. 14 ounces.
*Mrs. Anstruther Grey was Monica Helen née Lambton born 19 July 1901, only child of
Geoffrey Lambton, second son of Frederick Lambton, 4th Earl of
Durham. The 4th Earl’s son, John Frederick, became 5th
Earl on the death of his father on 31 January 1929. He married Diana Mary
Farquhar, only daughter of Granville Richard Frederick Farquhar, of Dalton
Hall, Beverley, in 1919; Diana Mary passed away 28 August 1924. In 1931 John Frederick,
the 5th Earl, married Hermione Bullough, only child of Sir George
and Lady Bullough. Mrs. Anstruther Grey and Hermione Lady Durham were cousins.
In
1934 Monica Helen Lambton married Eton and Christ Church, Oxford educated William
John St. Clair Anstruther-Grey, Baron Kilmany, M.C., P.C. a Scottish Unionist
Party politician, (1905-1985). From 1926-1930 Anstruther Grey was a lieutenant
in the Coldstream Guards and was a member of the Shanghai Defence Force sent by
the British Government to protect European nationals in that city from Chinese
forces at a “time of tension” in 1926/27. Amongst several U.K. government
positions, between 1962 and 1964 he was Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons.
YEAR 1956
The last fishing season in ownership of Lady Bullough.
The island was bought on 28 February 1957 by the British Conservative Government of the day from Lady Bullough and the Trustees of the Estate of the late Sir George Bullough, Baronet, to be used in perpetuity as a nature reserve.
Seven named Rods: Duncan (17 days), George (5) and Stuart (5) Macnaughton,
James Smith (4), Robin Gray (4), Simon Gray (1), Mr. Arbuthnott (1)*,
by Net at Caves Bay - Duncan Macnaughton (1).
* Educated at Fettes College, Edinburgh and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge; where he studied estate management, graduating B.A. in 1949; John Campbell Arbuthnott, K.T., C.B.E., D.S.C., G.C.St.G., F.R.S.G.S., (1924-2012), was a chartered surveyor for Nature Conservancy. As such he played a key role in negotiations with Lady Bullough leading to the transfer (sale) of Rum to the British nation in 1957. Arbuthnott succeeded his father as 16th Viscount Arbuthnott in 1966. He was Lord Lieutenant for Kincardineshire from 1977 to 1999.
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YEAR 1957
28 February 1957, if he had lived, would have been Sir George Bullough's 87th birthday. Auspiciously it was chosen by Lady Bullough as completion day for the sale
to the British people of their 26,400 acre island of Rum, Kinloch Castle
and its amazing collection of contents from around the world, many collected during
Sir George's three year long Grand World Tour, 1892-1895.
Twenty-one days fishing from 5 May to 17 September in which the following named Rods:
John Arbuthnot (2 days), Professor Pearsal (1),
Dr. William Julius Eggeling, F.R.S.E., Conservation Officer Nature Conservancy, Scotland, later director for Nature Conservancy, Scotland (2), Mr. P. Lowe - a Nature Conservancy scientist (2),
Colonel Grant (1), Stuart Macnaughton - Keeper (4), George Macnaughton - Head Keeper (1), Mrs. Crowe (1), Mr. Crowe (1), Mr. Crowe and R. Macnaughton (1),
John and Jimmy Smith* - Worked for Bullough's and Nature Conservancy (1),
Mr. Stevenson (1) and Master Duncan Gordon (2) caught: 25 Sea Trout and 68 Brown Trout.
(* Jimmy Smith a much valued source of information to me during my many visits to his home before his death.)
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YEAR 1958
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YEAR 1960
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YEAR 1961
Over twenty-two fishing days from 18 March to 26 October
27 Sea Trout, 146 Brown Trout and 2 Salmon* were caught.
(*Both caught in Kinloch River "on worm".
The second recorded as a cock, male salmon.)
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YEAR 1962
25 Sea Trout (heaviest 3-lbs. 12 ounces) and 44 Brown Trout (heaviest 1-lb. 12 ounces) were caught.
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YEAR 1963
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YEAR 1964
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YEAR 1965
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YEAR 1966
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YEAR 1967
Lady Bullough passed away at her home, Warren Hill, Newmarket, on 22 May 1967 aged ninety-eight. She is interred alongside her husband,
Sir George Bullough, Bt., and her father-in-law, John Bullough, in the Family Mausoleum at the old township of Harris, on the island of Rum.
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YEAR 1968
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YEAR 1969
Kilmory River discharges into the sea by the Old Burial Ground, north Rum.
Salisbury's (collapsed) Dam was intended to hold back waters of Kilmory River,
it is the more direct route to the sea than the dog-legged Kinloch River.
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YEAR 1970
An exceptional season ... ... ... re-location of Brown Trout ... ... ...
A hand-written record of re-location of 340 Brown Trout:
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YEAR 1971
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YEARS 1972, 1973 AND 1974
TOTAL FOR 1974: 20 SEA TROUT, LARGEST 3-lbs.
49 BROWN TROUT, LARGEST 2-lbs. 4 ounces
1975 ( Page 143)
1 SEA TROUT, 2-lbs. 4 ounces - Kinloch River
1 BROWN TROUT, 1-lb. 12 ounces - Loch Dornabac
P. M. Evans.
1978 - LAST YEAR OF RECORDS ( Page 143)
1 SEA TROUT, 1-lb. 8 ounces - Loch Fiachanais
3 BROWN TROUT, largest: 7 ounces - Loch Papadil M. E. Braithwaite.
George W. Randall Research and Photographic Archive.
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