There is a bridge bang in the centre of Manchester, just off Princess Street. If you look over it down into the River Medlock, you’ll see a 2kg wild brown trout.Or so Shaun Leonard, director of the Wild Trout Trust, told me as he shared a grainy video clip from a member. He thought there might be a story in it.“Yeah, right,” I thought, sceptical of finding trout in such a location, let alone a monster of 2kg. But, as I leaned over and peered beneath the gloom of a gastro-pub veranda, my ears thrumbing to the thunder of traffic, I saw a shadowy slab of muscle that was this bruiser of a wild trout, not to mention three tiddlers alongside it. Perhaps Shaun had a point.
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