The World Flounder Tramping Championship at Palnackie, Kirkcudbrightshire, made £549 for the RNLI and a lot of scrubbing necessary for competitors like Shaun and Terry Harper pictured here; there were 290 entries from all over the country and abroad in this competition to see who could find the largest, the smallest and the most flounders lurking in the mud of the Urr Estuary. To detect their wriggling, bare feet must be used and the champion at this eccentricmethod of fishing for the second year in succession was Chris Clark of Dumfries, who uncovered a flounder weighing 2lb foz.

photograph by courtesy of 'Dumfries and Galloway News'.