The Tweed Foundation has purchased a small camera which has enabled footage to be taken during the autumn. Due to the abnormally low water conditions fish had been unable to ascend up most of the tributaries this autumn and, as the attached video clip shows, were stacking up at the mouths of their home waters waiting for the right conditions.

This underwater video clip was taken in mid November at the bottom of a tributary on the Teviot Water where it was estimated there were around 1,000 fish waiting for a rise in the water height so that they could reach their spawning grounds.  To get the footage, an underwater camera was attached to the end of a telescopic pole. The fish shown here are mostly Salmon, although there is 1 large Sea-trout that can be observed near the end of the video clip.

Part of this film was used by the BBC's "Autumnwatch" programme in November whilst filming spawning fish on Tweed.

Click on the link to view the video clip; you can also watch the film on YouTube.