It's amazing when you find out that your house used to look out over a 250 acre loch that contained "Pike of unusual size and weight", but frustrating to learn that the loch was drained in 1806.
Maybe I should reinstate the Loch of Auchlossan. If only I can find a plug big enough to fit the plug hole
Looking through the records of witch trials in the area from the 1500's, the loch and a crannog/burial mound are mentioned, as well as "the Devil", summoned by the witches is a macabre dance.
I may be clutching at straws, but the Devil was described as being of a green mottled colour, with a large mouth full of teeth, dead, cold eyes, and "having been summoned by the witches to the shore of the loch, the Devil himself grabbed a duck and disappeared back into the waters".
Does that not describe a Pike?