Chapter 9 – ‘MORA’

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Winter (Part 1) Year followed year, and with the passing of time Mora grew to exceed 10lb. Her natural enemies became fewer and fewer and she left the shoal to hunt on her own. She was a creature of habit, and her life

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Autumn (Part 2) At this time the tenants of the reef changed as some of the summer visitors, who had come there to spawn, departed on their winter migration to warmer southerly waters. Others, following the shoreline until they tasted the waters of

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Autumn (Part 1) During the last ice age the glaciers that started high up in the hills gouged U-shaped valleys from the ancient Cambrian rock and, moving remorselessly down towards the frozen lowlands, carried great boulders and stones along with them. When the

CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Summer (Part 2) Six years before, on a sunny June day, the bubble of life that was the infant Mora had drifted near the surface of the sparkling, living sea and became a tiny part of the foundation of all life in the

Editor’s Note The following four-part story originally appeared in ‘Angling’ magazine in 1973. Some of the biological material is not quite correct in the light of scientific knowledge gained since then, from research into spawning, movements etc. CHAPTER 9 – ‘MORA’ Summer (Part 1) Turning towards the