Where to find a salmon fisherman in the census?

[GR2]

I wonder if he has a surname which has variant spellings or is prone to mistranscription and is hiding that way?

[Forfarian]

Or maybe someone is using the notoriously poor transcriptions at Ancestry?

[Skoosh]

What was the date of the census, the Scottish rivers "closed season" varies quite a bit from the Tweed in the south to the Thurso in the north and closure dates will differ from todays regulations anyhow. He would have had another occupation for the closed season.

Bests,
Skoosh.

[Forfarian]

7 April 1861 and 2 April 1871. Both in the salmon season in most parts of the country I think.