Are you reeling in the cheers?

The Bemersyde Trophy (senior and junior) is presented for the best fish caught on the River Tweed during the fishing season – and a panel of judges has been casting its eye over some of the top landings from 2018.

Prizes were presented to the winners in the junior and senior sections at a special ceremony at Bemersyde House, near St Boswells in Roxburghshire.

Junior winner Harry Gotzhiem, aged 14, is from Bedfordshire.

He was fishing Traquair Beat last October when he caught a 21lb salmon on a 11 ft switch rod, fishing a cascade.

The senior victor, Craig Duncan, was fishing the Teviot, Hawick Angling Club water.

He caught – and released – a 26lb salmon.

Craig was fishing a single handed trout rod.

Pictured at the presentation ceremony, above, are, from left, Michelle Ballantyne, MSP for the South of Scotland; Craig Duncan, Sir ‘Johnny’ Scott, Harry Gotzhiem, John Lamont, MP for Berwickshire, Roxburgh and Selkirk, and Martin Robertson, who piped the gathering into the grounds.