Volunteers help on the Girvan

Once again we relied on volunteers to assist with riverbank restoration on the Girvan. Without volunteers, the Trust is really pushed to deliver this type of work with our limited staff. Anyway, today we were assisted by two students and a staff member from SRUC,...

River Stinchar DSFB AGM

The clerk to the Stinchar DSFB asked we post this announcement ahead of the Board meeting and AGM. Apologies for such short notice, the original message was overlooked in our inbox and only noticed today. The details are as follows:-  Date of...

Smolts rising and feeding on Grannom caddis

As normal in May, the Grannom hatch has commenced and this evening I watched smolts rising for these emerging caddis at Catrine on the Ayr. It is both fascinating and worrying as there are still hundreds of smolts in the voes but we are attempting to encourage them...

Smolt sampling at Catrine

We had an afternoon of sampling at Catrine after we stepped in and electrofished those we could from the lade. Currently many smolts are  stranded with nowhere to go until modifications to the intake to the smolt trap are completed and proven successful.  Our thinking...

Kayak Training Day

Today was the Kayak training day. Four of us headed to Castle Semple Loch this morning to go through some Kaya safety training to ensure Health and Safety compliance when performing bird counts on the rivers. Unfortunately we had to leave Gillian behind manning the...

Catrine Smolt Trap on the river Ayr

Smolt trapping to assess the effectiveness of migration at the Catrine Dam Hydro system well underway, so far there not been many fish in the trap. This new and until recently untested trap is not a conventional design and getting smolts into the trap has been easier...