Wow, those bring back memories...my folks lived in the UK during the 70’s. I’d go over to visit them, then sometimes took a few days and drove north to fish the Tweed and the Spey up in Scotland. I kept getting skunked with a fly, trip after trip, then one day I taped a spinning reel to the butt of my fly rod with electrical tape, tied on a Devon Minnow and bottom-bounced it like I fished for steelhead. Boom! Boom! Boom! It happened so fast I couldn’t believe it.
I brought them to a smokehouse, traded my 12 pound Atlantic salmon for 4 or 5 pounds of smoked fish, got a few bottles of Guiness stout, then retired to My B&B for the evening to wake up and do it again with a Devon Minnow the following day