November 16, 2003 7:39 AM

What can I say? It's a slow news day....

The ugliest salmon in Scotland

No, I WASN'T really in the mood to expound on things political this morning, so I thought I'd just stick to general ugliness. This story far exceeded my expectations.

When an angler went fishing on the River Tay, little did he know he’d be coming face to face with the ugliest salmon he’d ever seen.

Ramsay Johnson, from Blairgowrie, was introduced to the sport by his father as a young boy on the rivers of Northumbria. He’s been a keen salmon fisherman since moving to Scotland in 1968.

Over the years he’s caught dozens of salmon of all shapes and sizes, and among them have been some doubtful looking characters, but none as gruesome as the cock salmon he caught recently on the Cargill beat just north of Stanley.

Ramsay said, "I’ve fished for enough years to know this salmon is unique. As I was playing it, the gillie, Billy Campbell, spotted it in the water and said it had a strange head.

"And once I got it in the boat, we just stared in disbelief — it was so ugly but we couldn’t understand why."

You know, if I stare at the salmon long enough, it begins to look like one of my old girlfriends....

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