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Tree Planting on the Pinmullan Burn – Stinchar Catchment
Our final tree planting job for this season was in the Stinchar valley on the Pinmullan Burn, a small but productive tributary of the upper catchment. It isn't ideal weather for planting owing to the dry, warm weather we been enjoying this spring and it is a bit late...
Nether Wellwood Green Engineering
With the tree planting season about over until next winter, we have a couple of pressing jobs that must be completed this week. Hopefully the forecast rain at the weekend will help them establish quickly as they burst into life but we will water them anyway as a...
River Doon – Smithston Rental Syndicate 2025
There is now only one vacancy in for the rental syndicate 2025, for a Wednesday rod. The cost is £400 for the season. For further details, please contact the Syndicate via https://www.smithston.co.uk/smithston-rental-syndicate-2025 or email at...
Planting Trees on the Mauchline Burn with the Dunbia Group.
Last week we were joined on the Mauchline Burn by the Dunbia Group who donated £1000 towards planting trees across the project area. Despite it being a very dreich morning we planted around 150 trees with the group which was a massive boost to the burn. Ian and our...
Removing the Davington Weir on the Border Esk.
In October last year we removed a concrete weir on the Davington Burn, a tributary of the Border Esk. Having won the contract, we worked with Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) to remove the weir and restore the burn to its natural state, reconnecting...
Wild Fisheries Fund Project Video.
We were recently joined by Jon Gibb for the Wild Fisheries Fund to look at the Maucline Burn (Ayr catchment) and Brockloch Burn (Doon catchment) where we have been busy fencing, tree planting and green engineering along with solving livestock watering issues. The...
Salmon Spawning 2024
As ever, the culmination of each year's hard work is rewarded by seeing fish successfully spawning in our rivers and burns across Ayrshire. Spawning activity has been noticeably slow to start this season although it is possible that a few fish spawned around 3 weeks...
Christmas Present Ideas!
With Christmas approaching rapidly it's time to start thinking about gifts for friends, family and partners. Why not treat someone to one of our fine art river maps showing named beats and major salmon pools with beautiful watercolours of key locations. We have prints...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
