News
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...
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...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
