News
Cross and Lig Water Surveys on the Stinchar.
With the weather a little more settled Muir, Jim and myself were down in the Stinchar catchment to carry out some surveys on the Cross Water and Lig Burn. August is a great time of year to be out surveying not to hot, not to cold...it’s not that we’re fussy here at...
Useless weather for August
While anglers may well be reaping the benefit of a wet summer (where they can find fish), we at the Trust are struggling to complete the essential survey commitments we have. Unless it stops raining soon, I fear we may not complete our schedule on time if at all....
Where to fish after 19mm of rainfall overnight?
We surveyed just one burn today and gave two volunteers an insight into semi quantitative electrofishing survey techniques and purposes. Both Jim and Heather have given the Trust their commitment to regularly turn out and help us and we in turn are assisting them to...
Dirty Spates
19mm of rain fell in Mauchline last night and 18mm at Gadgirth. This seemed to be consistent across much of Ayrshire last night as torrential rain and thunder storms passed over during the wee hours. Consequently, this morning every river and most burns were...
A different approach to increasing stocks
We were on the Girvan translocating fry from a high density main stem area to a nearby low density tributary. This is a far less damaging way of increasing the habitat utilised by salmon than the rather less controllable stocking with hatchery reared fry. The adult...
Irvine, Annick and Garnock Timed Surveys
We commenced the Irvine timed survey last week (on 14th August) unsure what was happening with water levels. When we left the office last Monday morning, it was pouring and heavy rain had been forecast overnight. As it turned out, the river was at a nice height and we...
Another American Signal Crayfish turns up
A year on from when we found a large claw and 1 3/4 years since we caught the only other living crayfish trapped in Ayrshire, last week, another specimen turned up on the same watercourse just about 1/2 mile downstream. This again was a large animal about 8" long. It...
Fish Rescues on the Craufurdland Water
We were involved in a fish rescue last week ahead of the Scottish Water pipeline crossing the Craufurdland Water near Kilmarnock. We were there on Monday before water levels stopped work, followed by a return on Tuesday to perform the fist passes over with...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
