News
Ayrshire Post ‘Wish’ Campaign: Updated 12/11
The Ayrshire Post's 'Wish' campaign is coming to a close, with the final tokens having been printed in this week's paper (released 07/11/12). This week's edition has rounded the campaign off with a special 24 tokens hidden throughout, as opposed to the usual 4 or 8....
Holidays
I'm on holiday this week but I received a call this morning to say there were a few salmon running Catrine Dam so I headed over to see for myself. At this time of year we often hear calls for an extension to the salmon season as fish seem to be running the river later...
Upper Ayr pollution
Gordon and I headed to the upper Ayr catchment today to see if we could see trout spawning or any salmon moving into burns but on the whole we were too early. We walked the Ponesk right through the opencast site and into the old channel above. We saw an occasional...
Catrine Lade: Updated 29/10
Work commenced this week to remove sediment from the lade. I understood from SEPA that silt and fine sediment would not be allowed to be re introduced to the river but I am concerned that the contractor has placed large quantities of mud upstream of Andersons Dam...
Irvine Valley improvements
Well after reporrting on problems on the Irvine recently, it is about time for good news. Don't get too excited, nothing that great but steps in the right direction. First off, I visited the Burnawn to see the volunteer's handywork at the Cemetery Bridge fish pass. I...
Superhuman effort
We are still waiting for the council to instruct the contractor to make repairs to Burnawn fish pass. Meanwhile, members of Galston Angling Club, frustrated by the delay decided to attempt the impossible and clear the bottom end of the fish pass manually. There was...
Ponesk electro fishing
I've been keen to visit the Ponesk this year to see how the new channel had fared but water levels have prevent this until today. Brian and I spent a couple of days last winter looking for evidence of salmon spawning on this burn but didn't find anything. I thought...
Another dry day, more great trout!
Making the most of low(ish) water levels, I headed out this morning to complete the Burnock Water survey with Natalia and Meryl whilst Gillian and Helen made for the Garnock and Caaf Water to undertake a new survey. I can't let you know about the Garnock results yet...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
