More Ayr system surveys

by | Sep 25, 2013 | Electrofishing, General

We’ve been back on the Ayr catchment this week surveying regular sites to compare with previous results. We haven’t entered the data yet but from memory, the Burnock was comparable to last years results with good numbers of trout being found in these upper...

Thursday washout

by | Sep 19, 2013 | fishing, General

We headed out electrofishing this morning on the off chance that we would find a site fishable but all the rivers and burns were rising and it just wasn’t possible. We looked at a few obstacles on the way back to office before I decided to take the afternoon off...

Skelmorlie Water

by | Sep 17, 2013 | Electrofishing, General

As all the Ayrshire Rivers were still too big to electrofish today, we decided to take a chance and head North to look at a few burns around Largs and Skelmorlie. These coastal burns are small and largely unknown to us so it was an interesting day to see new waters....

More Doon Surveys

by | Sep 13, 2013 | Electrofishing, General

Once again we headed to the upper Doon catchment looking at burns. Although the burns rose overnight, they were still fishable. The Cummock Burn at Camlarg was just fishable and slightly coloured but I was keen to see what was there. I had memories of fishing this...