Record-breaking trout sells for £3600
Something fishy was going on in Edinburgh when a stuffed trout went under the hammer at a prestigious sporting sale.
The king of all trout.
- By Sandra Gray
- Published in the Courier : 12.11.10
- Published online : 12.11.10 @ 05.09pm
The cased fish was prepared by celebrated Perth naturalist and taxidermist Peter Malloch and fetched £3600 at Bonhams.
The 29lb specimen was caught in Loch Stennes on mainland Orkney in March 1889 and for over 100 years held the record for a wild trout caught in British fresh water.
Also fetching a pretty penny in the sale were three cased salmon that fetched more than £10,000 in total.
A spokesman for Bonhams said there had been a "great deal" of interest in the items and that they had "exceeded expectations."
A keen naturalist from childhood, Malloch started his taxidermy business in Perth in 1871 at the age of 18 and it remained a fixture in the town until 1981.
He was an authority on salmon and trout and wrote what is still the standard work on their habits and how to fish for them.
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