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So not a likely repeat prospect for the future. But for completeness, positive identification is quoted as<br />

being achieved from an internal examination and count of the pyloric caeca, these being finger like<br />

projections located close to the junction between the stomach and the intestines, of which in this case<br />

there should be forty five to one hundred and fourteen.<br />

The same source quotes Atlantic salmon as having forty to seventy four, which means that unless a<br />

specific individual has more than seventy four, the degree of over-lap is such as to be of absolutely no<br />

help whatsoever.<br />

Thankfully, the gums at the base of the teeth are also said to be noticeably white. Not that any of this<br />

matters, because unless there is another mass break out, a repeat catch just ain't going to happen anyway.<br />

FRESHWATER SPECIES<br />

As a specialist sea angler, and in particular a boat angler, it would be both unwise and unrealistic for<br />

me to offer advice in any measure on a branch of fishing I frequently take advice on myself, for which<br />

reason I intend to do nothing more than recount my own personal experiences here, such as they are.<br />

There will however also be some observations and comments which strike me as being relevant at the<br />

time, in addition to which, cross referencing is made to a number of species related audio interviews<br />

with a range of nationally renowned experts in their various fields in which tactical information is<br />

provided.<br />

There are however two specific exceptions to this, both fish with adipose fins, and to my way of thinking<br />

therefore both game fish species, where I feel I have sufficient expertise to offer a more definitive<br />

account, these being the char and the schelly.<br />

All record listed freshwater species are discussed, including those which for whatever reason are<br />

currently suspended from further claims. But not within species coarse fish variants such as mirror and<br />

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