With Net and Coble: A Salmon Fisher on the Cromarty Firth

A Scottish fisherman with over fifty years of experience offers a sweeping retrospective on this unique and ancient method for catching salmon.
An ancient and environmentally friendly method of catching salmon, by spotting them in the water and taking them with 'net and coble', unique to the Cromarty Firth, was recently banned by the Scottish government. The men who knew this way of fishing are no longer young, and there is every risk of their centuries-old techniques dying with them.
So it...