Furness Postcard Collection - Bonar Bridge Salmon Fishing

Date Added: 24 April 2008 Year Range: 1920 - 1970 Institution Name: dnhhl Cat No: ◀ | 2008_020_178 | ▶ Picture No: 3855

Monochrome postcard from the Furness Collection showing fishermen with their rowing boats and net with the old three arch bridge in the background

Dimensions: Length138 mm - Width 90 mm

2 Comments

I remember, in the late 1940s, visiting this same salmon fishing station along with my parents to meet up with my uncle Kenneth Fraser (Kenny aigh Peter Loudie) of 6 Front Street Embo. Kenny was employed as a member of the salmon fishing team there and I watched fascinated as the team continuously rowed their row boat into the fast flowing water, set their net in a wide semi circle and then bring it back to shore from where it was hauled in by hand. From what I saw the fishermen appeared to catch one and sometimes two large salmon on each haul of their net. From what I remember the fishing team worked from a large sand/mud ledge at the edge of the waterâ€¦not a stony ledge as shown here. The team actually worked on the South side of the Kyle so in effect they were working in Ardgay in Ross Shire and not Bonar Bridge in Sutherland Shire.

Comment left on 11 June 2013 at 18:15 by Kenneth Mackay

Why is the station at Ardgay called Bonar Bridge
Comment left on 07 July 2024 at 13:01 by Padric Macdonald There is a good explanation of why the railway station at Ardgay was known as Bonar Bridge Station here.
https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/bonarbridge/ardgay/ Administrator

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