----- Original Message ----- From: "Marilyn L. Arnold" <[email protected]> To: "Anne Burgess" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 16, 2011 4:37 AM Subject: Re: [ANGUS] Fishing Rights on the Tay > > Thanks also for the elaboration on the two types of fishing -- single, > land-based vs. use of ships. I believe my Powries were involved in salmon > fishing using small vessels. (Family stories: one of the GF of my GM was > a > "ship captain", but this is my only clue to ship vs. land/net fishing). > And, that Mary Powrie Schacht (Queen of Powriedom :-)!) has said that the > Powries of Errol were salmon fishers on the Tay, and had "bothies" where > they stayed while on extended fishing trips. > Not ships ... boats! The salmon fishers on the rivers probably used no more than a large rowing boat to haul the net into position and haul it back to their base or bothie with the catch. This is not the same as sea fishing with nets. Some 15 years ago I watched two men wade out in the river Nith just downstream from Dumfries. They were up to their chests in the water at low tide and were positioning a net in the river. I didn't wait to see the result but less than an hour later the incomming tide had raised the water level by over 15 feet. The boat in the river would not have required a "ship captain", probably only two people, one to row and one to pay out the net. Cheers, Bruce D