 I must say that in this age of the celebrity, I was a wee bit surprised and maybe a wee bit flattened to actually be asked to come and take part in this ceremony today. But I must say I'm very pleased to be here because I was brought up in Aberlawer and I have a lot of very pleasant memories playing along the Riverbank here. And especially by the bridge here because we knew it was a swing bridge. And of course Davy Crookshank did sit at the other side over there and collect it all. And for a few extra pennies he would give you a haircut. And as I said I started fishing here and my first contact with the salmon was just below the bridge here. And I was fishing with a rod made up of a lanswood butt, a green heart centrepiece and a hazel tip. The hazel was cut from a tree just above the football pitch here. It was just whittled the splice with my knife. It was tied on with a bit of string. The eyes were made from the end of safety pins. And I was fishing with what we called a penny line, just a piece of string dyed brown. It was just a discarded bass that I found in the river here. I remember I was wading out on my bare feet in short breaks, trying hard to reach a fish, rising just by the stones down here. And eventually the fish took it. First run it broke the rotten cast in the front. And I can remember pretty well sitting by the bank here with a tear in my eye. Now I don't think really there's anything better than being in the river having a cast. To go down there and to be there on your own, surrounded by nature here in this beautiful countryside, and just be there on your own with your own thoughts is one of the best things you can possibly do. But if sometime in the future you do manage to hook into lively large salmon in the river here. And after a struggle or maybe an epic battle, you manage to haul them back up onto the chingle. Bend down carefully, remove the hook out of its jaw, give it a gentle part in the head, and slip it back into the river, because you never know it might just be me. Everybody, every one of you will have a very successful season, and you'll have as many happier memories as I have of the River Scroop.