Martin Lucas

Trustee since 2014

I hail from the Greensand rivers area of southwest Surrey, where I caught my first grayling during school holiday fishing adventures. I’ve been an aquatic animal ecologist (especially fish spatial ecology) at the University of Durham for over a quarter of a century, and ran a grayling tracking project co-funded by the Grayling Research Trust and the Environment Agency, on Yorkshire ‘freestone’ rivers, back in the mid-2000s.

I still go fishing for grayling periodically, and although I am not a good angler, I have had a few large grayling, mostly from the Tummel and the Till. For years, grayling has been the species most likely to put in an appearance in “Martyn’s Traditional Go-Fishing on Christmas Day Event” which, in my younger days (but not today!) often took place on river stretches where I did not, entirely, have permission to go. I am also a trustee with the Wear Rivers Trust and Tees Rivers Trust.

I’m a wildlife gardener (meaning my garden is poorly tended but has plenty of wildlife) and enjoy countryside walks with my wife and our gazehounds.