Midnight Poaching on the Tay

Stories of Scotland

Annie and Jenny

History, Places & Travel, Society & Culture

4.8 • 728 Ratings

🗓️ 5 April 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Jenny and Annie investigate salmon poaching on the Inner Tay Estuary between Perth and Dundee. They learn about this dark side to poaching, the dangers and shenanigans of catching illicit salmon. Looking at the little industrious town of Newburgh, they visit the fishing stations of Jock’s Hole and Gutter Hole. Jenny and Annie uncover some underhand river police tactics for catching poachers. Annie’s grandfather Jimmy tells stories of some late-night poaching antics on the River Nith in Dumfries, in the last of the grandparent interviews. Get bonus content on Patreon

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to Stories of Scotland. I'm Jenny and I'm Annie and this episode is the final interview in the series we made speaking to my grandparents.
0:19.0	And it has been a whirlwind.
0:21.8	From their childhood accounts of the Second World War to their dance hall romance,
0:26.0	this has been a nostalgic trip, Annie.
0:28.2	But in this final episode, we're going to look at a very prohibited but culturally fascinating
0:33.1	behaviour.
0:34.2	Yes, so I'm giving this episode the precursor that we would never encourage anyone to do
0:39.7	anything illegal or to break any laws. Yeah, you're very staying inside and washing your hands,
0:45.8	loads, you rascals. So the reason I say this is because we're going to be talking about
0:51.1	salmon poaching, which my grandfather spoke about very fondly.
0:56.1	And it's going to be a lovely bridge for our next season, because we're really delighted to be
1:00.9	looking at...
1:01.7	Coast and waters! From coastal castles to ocean mythology, we're going to be bringing you
1:07.1	the best stories from Scotland's rivers, lochs and seas.
1:10.6	Yes, but in this episode, we'll blather about poaching.
1:14.4	Poaching!
1:14.9	We've got my papa's memories of poaching in Dumfries,
1:18.3	and then I fished up some really intriguing accounts of fishing on the river Tay.
1:23.6	We've got a Victorian railway guard detective with a very dark imagination,
1:28.3	a tragic fight on the river between river police and poachers that ends in fatalities.
1:34.3	And we've got a story of a village coming together late one night to get the river police totally drunk.
1:42.3	Hey!
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