Readers may be saddened to learn of the demise of Rod McGill. McGill was born on 1st April 1994 and had been a regular contributor to the magazine Fly Fsihing and Fly Tying for more than twelve years. During that time he relentlessly fought against the damage that fish farming was doing, and still does, to wild salmon and sea-trout in the West Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Rod had a younger brother, Old Trout, born in 1997, who contributed for a decade to the satirical journal Private Eye. Old Trout regularly exposed the often less than savoury activities of the fish farmers; much to the delight of the UK media and to the annoyance of successive Scottish governments, their civil servants and their fish farming pals. Old Trout retired from Private Eye in 2007.
Their father, writer and journalist Bruce Sandison said: “I am determined to continue the work my boy’s started. It is the very least that I can do. I want to thank all those who sent them such supportive messages over the years and I promise that I will not stop until the last polluting and degrading fish farm has been removed from Scotland’s marine and freshwater environment.”
