Your latest, much appreciated, April issue has just arrived. In the Letters pages, you publish three old black-and-white photographs from a reader who requests identification of the river and people depicted. While I cannot help with the name of the fisherman or his gillie – though he is probably a member of the Radcliffe family, who owned the river at that time – I can confirm, after some debate, that the location is the Long pool of the River Forss in Caithness.
At first sight, the attached picture of my son-in-law, Hugo Cubitt, landing his first fish in the Sea pool, ably assisted by gillie Andrew Jackson, seemed to clinch the matter, the similarities being so obvious.
However, close inspection indicated otherwise, the hills in the background not being quite…
