by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2014 | General
We were saddened to hear of the death of Douglas Stewart last Tuesday. Douglas was a keen River Doon angler and supporter of the Trust and will be sadly missed. Our condolences go to all his family.
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 12, 2014 | General
First to avoid confusion, there are two separate jobs underway at Catrine, the large weir contract that has progressed throughout the summer. Second contract is the Daldorch wall underpinning. The contractors are different as are the organisations responsible for the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 10, 2014 | Electrofishing, General
We have just about completed our Board commitments on the Ayr for 2014 electrofishing season but following last night’s Board meeting, I headed back to the upper catchment to look at a couple of sites where we will be gravel cleaning later this year in an effort...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 9, 2014 | Electrofishing
We don’t often report good news about fish stocks on the Ayr but I’m pleased to say we can today. Well in fact it’s not the Ayr but the Ponesk Burn in the upper Ayr catchment. This burn was moved to allow coal to be extracted from below it in 2010....
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 8, 2014 | fishing, General
Finally after what has been a hard few days, we reached the end of the fish and fish habitat surveys required on the upper Garnock catchment today. We have one more survey of the pipe track to undertake later in the week but this has nothing to do with rivers or fish....
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 7, 2014 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
Last week, we fished the upper gravel extraction site on the Glenmuir whilst waiting on the backpack equipment to be repaired. ART has fished this site annually since 2006 and this years results were poorer than any other. With this in mind, I looked at the results...