{"id":1142,"date":"2011-12-14T13:24:21","date_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2011-12-14T13:24:21","modified_gmt":"2011-12-14T12:24:21","slug":"epic-battle-nets-malloch-trophy-for-nith-angler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2011\/12\/14\/epic-battle-nets-malloch-trophy-for-nith-angler\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Epic battle&#8217; nets Malloch Trophy for Nith angler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 34.5lb SALMON from the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway has won the 2011 Savills Malloch Trophy for its captor, angler Sam Valentine.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The late autumn fish was caught on November 16 at Dalswinton after what Valentine, who had waited 27 years to\u00a0 catch a salmon over 20lbs, described as \u201can epic battle of 45 minutes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said: \u201cWe returned it to the water and with a\u00a0 flash of the tail it swam off very strongly.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1144\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1144\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nith-malloch2011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1144\" title=\"Nith-Malloch2011\" src=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nith-malloch2011.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"Malloch Trophy winner 2011\" width=\"300\" height=\"262\" srcset=\"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nith-malloch2011.jpg 400w, https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/nith-malloch2011-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1144\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sam Valentine (right) with Dalswinton ghillie, Dougie Smith return the winning salmon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Malloch Trophy was first awarded in 1972\u00a0 and quickly became one of the most keenly contested prizes in Scottish game fishing.\u00a0 After a 10-year absence, the trophy was acquired by the Tay Foundation in 2009 and relaunched.<\/p>\n<p>Nine entries, mainly over 30lb in weight were considered by the judging panel. The Foundation says this is consistent with a remarkable increase in the numbers of larger salmon \u2013 fish that have remained at sea for three or\u00a0 four years \u2013 caught in Scottish rivers this season.<\/p>\n<p>They say: \u201cOn some rivers fish in the teens of pounds dominated catches in May and June and throughout the season heavier fish have been unusually common with plenty in the 20 lb to 30 lb class and several in the 30 lb to 40 lb class.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 34.5lb SALMON from the River Nith in Dumfries and Galloway has won the 2011 Savills Malloch Trophy for its captor, angler Sam Valentine.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[74,112,150,158,204,220],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}