Fishing

Fishing has always been an important part of Estate life - from 1743 when the Eighth Earl of Home caught a 69lb salmon (on a 22ft rod and a horse hair line) and whose dog (who was nearly as notorious) would catch and land fish at his masters feet, a hundred years later the Lord Home of the day caught an average of 14 salmon a day (to his own rod) for 6 consecutive days in June and almost 100 years after that Sir Alec, with two others, caught 64 fresh salmon in one February day.

Over the last 250 years the fortunes of Tweed have been cause of continual speculation, but the management of the catchment by the River Tweed Commissioners has enabled the river to maintain its position as the pre-emanent salmon river in the UK, and in 2010 we achieved our best catch of salmon (740 fish) for over 20 years, on the Estate's Beat - Birgham Dub.

Fishing today is as important to the Estates as it was to 8th Earl of Home - nearly 270 years ago!