If miss Georgina Ballantine were here today, she would be nervously awaiting the outcome of the news just in, that a massive Salmon taken from the River Ness, near Inverness, could have overtaken her record of the largest Salmon ever caught on rod and line.

Miss Ballantine’s fish of 64lbs taken in 1922, in the swirling waters below her cottage, is engraved on every Salmon anglers memory, and to date there is still an uncollected reward for anyone breaking that record.

An angler believed to be Donald Milne from Aberdeen is waiting with bated breath , to see if his fish, that took him over an hour to land will beat the current record.

Reputed to be four feet long and three feet around the middle, this Salmon estimated to be in the region of 69lbs would beat the existing record by 5lbs.

There is concern though , that because the fish was not weighed before release, the record would not stand.

Scale samples have been taken to the fisheries research laboratories at Pitlochry to check the weight and confirm that this is indeed the heaviest Salmon ever caught with rod and line in British waters.