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Timed Surveys completed on the 4 DSFB Rivers
With water levels again fishable we completed the timed survey of the Stinchar last week. Once again, we found excellent results from another Ayrshire river this season. We have two left to do (Irvine and Garnock) so hopefully this dry spell will hold but tomorrow's...
Farewell
It is never a good day when anyone leaves the Trust but today, after over 5 years with us, we had to say goodbye to Gordon Macdermid. Gordon came to us in 2012 as an invasive weeds project officer with CIRB. Since then he adapted to learn many new skills that will...
Unacceptable Pollution – (UPDATED at end of post)
River Ayr unfishable today... on many beats. At prime time of the year for angling and with a good run on the water and plenty of salmon about, what could be worse news for anglers and angling clubs? Many anglers must have faced this disappointment when they turned up...
Generous donation
We are very grateful to Peacock Salt at Ayr Harbour who generously offered and donated a couple of salt bins to the Trust. We won't use them for salt but may either use them as biosecurity stations or fish transport tanks (once the necessary hole is sealed and...
Culroy Burn at Sauchrie
With water levels still slightly too high this morning for electrofishing surveys, we decided to take Jim and Niall, our two volunteers for the day, out tree planting. We are grateful for their generous support. It's great to have their assistance and they seem to...
Balsam Bash on the Muck Water.
This afternoon Muir and I were on the Muck Water with volunteers from Drumgrange and Keirs Angling Club to deal with what we hope is the last stand of Himalayan balsam on the watercourse. The saying “many hands make light work” is never more true than when pulling...
Ayr Timed Survey underway
The rain held off last night and we decided to head to the top of the River Ayr and work downstream as we undertook the timed surveys of the Ayr today. Water levels were still dropping so we figured starting at the top of the catchment would work best. Results at the...
MSS Salmon Tracking Project
With our salmon tracking site approved by MSS, we decided to place the mooring and receiver in Ayr harbour today. Not in the useable harbour but upstream of any boat traffic beside the old railway bridge pillars. Plan A was a good one (so we thought). Float the...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
