Exactly 100 years ago today a record was set, a record unlikely ever to be bettered, the Heaviest Rod Caught Salmon in British Waters. The record fish was caught on the Glendevine beat of the Tay by the water-keepers daughter, Georgina Ballantine and, at a time when Dame Julianna de Berner's authorship of the "Treatyse of Fysshynge wyth an Angle" is being increasingly questioned, it seemed the right time to celebrate important contributions to fishing made by women. Over the next three weeks I am going to be posting stories of extraordinary skill and endeavour, beginning with that of Georgina Ballantine.