Talk preparation,a visit from the Fishmongers Company and out-competed salmon fry so far this week.   more »

On traps this week. A Water Framework Directive meeting and a visit to the Holyrood parliament building.   more »

Vistors from the Wye and from the Slaney & Blackwater in Ireland, composing a talk, an interview for TV, a tag recapture in Germany and a drowned snake this week.   more »

Composing talks and decomposing Salmon this week so far.   more »

Office work and smolt traps this week.   more »

Writing in the office. Scales from a 25lb Salmon brought in and a meeting of the North Sea Sea-trout programme commitee.   more »

Mainly in the office this week, working on the Management Manual for the Commissioners. Scales from a Blue Salmon brought in.   more »

Office work and some news from the traps so far this week.   more »

On trout traps this week.   more »

Office work, management manual preparation and checking reports written by James, Kenny and Steven this week, plus a little diversion with the BBC AutumnWatch programme.   more »

Meetings most of this week - Water Framwork Directive, Trustees and the ART in Devon.   more »

A week of meetings.   more »

Goosander and Cormorant count and a liaison visit from the Galloway Fisheries Trust; more Management plan work and a getting a talk on Management plants ready for next week.   more »

On fish trap duty this week, though water very low and nothing coming up the burns. More work on the Management Plan contract.   more »

The annual joint RTC & TF meeting, more trap building, replying to the Strategic Framework document, the Wheelieboat Trust auction and news of a 48.5lb Salmon poached in 1986 this week.   more »

Getting the trout traps ready for the new spawning season, drawing up Health and Safety guide sheets & checking thermometers so far this week.   more »

Electric-fishing takeable trout in the Whiteadder, cleaning the Ettrick counter, checking access into the Slitrig and building trout traps the main items this week.   more »

Netting fish for tagging at Paxton and Brown-trout and Grayling at Walkerburn. A BBC producer and the last Ettrick and Yarrow electric-fishing this week.   more »

Electric-fishing on the Ettrick and Yarrow and the Foundation's AGM so far this week.   more »

The RTC Bicentennial Council meeting, electric-fishing of the Ettrick and equipment problems so far this week.   more »

Building a trout trap; electric-fishing the Talla, Fruid and Dye Waters and more bloody vents this week.   more »

Trap modifications, scale collection, forensics and electric-fishing so far this week.   more »

Electric-fishing on the Leet & Till; discussions about a North Sea Sea-trout programme; the RAFTS management planning contract and Scottish Salmon genetics research this week.   more »

Trap repairs, estuary trapping, fish with bleeding vents and electric-fishing this week.   more »

Tagged Grayling autopsy, the Tweedsmuir trap, Bullheads and Grilse with swollen vents so far this week.   more »

A Pacific Salmon turns up in the Tweed ! Work on the Tweed model for the Kelso show and the Tweedsmuir trap.   more »

Fieldwork still washed out this week, so inside working instead - history of Tweed salmon rod fisheries the main Management Manual work. Almost finished the model of the Tweed for the Kelso show.   more »

Sediment and Salmon; making a model of the Tweed; planning a re-run of a 1970's trout trap and trying the estuary trap again this week.   more »

Signal Crayfish report writing and washed off the river so far this week.   more »

Adjusting work to the water levels. The Ettrick counter returns from Iceland but can;t get it to work fully. Get some ideas for trout trap improvement and try out the estuary trap.   more »