Stake net fishing

Fishermen prepare a stake or fly net situated in the River Cree estuary which leads out into the Solway Firth. The net, stretched on stakes, working by the ebb and flow of the tide, is used to trap salmon. Guy ropes supporting the stakes are placed on the flood side and ebb side of the net.

The photograph was taken by Werner Kissling (1895-1988), an ethnological photographer, who worked mainly in island and coastal communities in Scotland. He made one of the earliest Gaelic films, Eriskay: A Poem of Remote Lives (1935).

University of Edinburgh, School of Scottish Studies Archives: SSSA F36/09