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‘Sunday Best’
Tradition dictates that Sunday is a day of rest unless of course you have pressing work and a limited window of opportunity to complete things before it starts raining again! Gordon and I headed to the headwaters of the Lugar today to fish the Glenmuir and Guelt. The...
Saturday’s sun and burns
Once again we headed out electrofishing to make the most of the dry (ish) weather. Water levels remained about the same as yesterday as there was a touch more rain overnight but it was a glorious sunny Autumn day and I was glad to be out and about. I had hoped to be...
Autumn sunshine
We had a day in the Stinchar Valley enjoying the rare warmth of sunshine on our backs. We headed to the Water of Tig first thing this morning to survey the Dunnack Burn and the Tig itself. It had rained again last night but we went anyway hoping that the burns were...
Duisk Results *UPDATED 02/10/12*
Last week we managed to electrofish some sites in the Duisk catchment (a tributary of the Stinchar). Despite water levels being higher than we would like, we had to make the most of the dry days. I've included 6 charts below. Classification follows SFCC guidelines and...
Cessnock in spate
Another photo of the Cessnock at the modified stretch, this time when it was in spate. It seems inevitable that there is going to be a serious issue with siltation and diffuse pollution as a direct result of thee modifications. It is interesting that the original...
Black Rocks video
Here is a link to a short video of our Black Rocks Waterfall project in Kilmarnock. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64GjbIMyjfc&feature=g-upl The project was completed in conjunction with Kilmarnock AC with funding from SEPA and SCORE. The video was taken last...
It’s a bite but by what?
The Cross Water at Barrhill is a black peaty water that supports a few trout and salmon in the lower reaches. We monitor a site just upstream of the village at the Martyrs Tomb. We normally find a few better than average trout (for this burn) and this year was no...
Black Rocks success!
After posting such a depressing blog as the previous entry about the Cessnock, I am delighted to report some good news. The Black Rock weirs that were completed earlier this summer appear to be doing the job that they were designed to do. I paid them a quick visit...
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