{"id":552,"date":"2009-07-31T09:58:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:58:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bxttlines.wordpress.com\/?p=552"},"modified":"2009-07-31T09:58:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-31T08:58:05","slug":"death-of-scotlands-salmon-king","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/07\/31\/death-of-scotlands-salmon-king\/","title":{"rendered":"Death of Scotland&#8217;s &#8216;Salmon king&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Colin Leslie\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_MJ56mowUb7Y\/SmOQTxC_inI\/AAAAAAAAGSw\/GoLAs80QVm0\/s400\/5162jMW4vzL._SL500_AA240_.jpg\" alt=\"Colin Leslie\" width=\"168\" height=\"168\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Colin Leslie<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>ONE OF Scotland&#8217;s best-known ghillies has died.\u00a0 Colin Leslie, who for more than 50 years was responsible for the Cargill beat of the Tay, was reknowned as &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s Salmon King&#8221;.\u00a0 During his lengthy service, his angling guests included American millionaire Nelson D. Rockefeller,\u00a0 New Zealand&#8217;s King of the Maoris, the Japanese ambassador, and Field Marshall Montgomery\u2019s Chief of Staff.<\/p>\n<p>Colin still holds the record for the most large salmon caught in Scotland since the Second World War. His biggest was a 56.5lb monster which he played for an hour. He died peacefully in Blairgowrie Cottage Hospital, aged 84.<\/p>\n<h6>Source &#8211; Perthshire Advertiser:<a title=\"Obit: Colin Leslie, opens in new window\" href=\"Colin holds the record for the greatest number of huge salmon caught in Scotland since the Second World War.  His biggest was a 56-and-a-half pounder, hooked in the Sandyford Pool after playing it for an hour.\" target=\"_blank\"> Full obituary<\/a>.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ONE OF Scotland&#8217;s best-known ghillies has died.\u00a0 Colin Leslie, who for more than 50 years was responsible for the Cargill beat of the Tay, was reknowned as &#8220;Scotland&#8217;s Salmon King&#8221;.\u00a0 During his lengthy service, his angling guests included American millionaire Nelson D. Rockefeller,\u00a0 New Zealand&#8217;s King of the Maoris, the Japanese ambassador, and Field Marshall&#8230;<\/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":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552"}],"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=552"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/btl.longlinemedia.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}