once in a while the salmon netters come to the Tweed below Paxton House to try their hand at the old technique of salmon netting. A net is rowed across the river and then winched in (click images to see detail) It is hardly a productive operation. Netting all day produced one sea trout which you see Mr P admiring before it was knocked on the head for one of the fisherman's supper. Poor reward for a long day in the hot soon. The problem was with too much weed floating upstream and the sea and river temperature too high to attract the fish inland as it were.

I am not sure what the point of it is. Amuse the Tourists? There was one more than the number of fish netted. Keeping you hand in perhaps? There were a couple of young fishermen swaggering cow boy like in their tall waders-but surely not apprentices to a trade which is dying fast. In the upper image the boats have been stowed away and a boom is in place down stream to stop more weed floating in on the rising tide  ¶ 5:18 PM