News
Purclewan Burn is improving
We were joined by a schoolboy on work experience experience today and he's going to be with us for the rest of the week. After catching up with the necessary paperwork and sorting out a few emails, we decided to pack away equipment that we won't use for the rest of...
River Doon District Salmon Fishery Board meeting
The next River Doon DSFB meeting will be held on Wednesday 4th November 2015 at 3.30pm in Frazer Coogans Solicitors office, Dalblair House, 46 Dalblair Road, Ayr KA7 1UQ. This meeting is open to the public.
An interesting day
Every day is interesting at the Trust but some more than others. Today's work came about rather unexpectedly due to a vehicle breakdown. Our reliable and hard worked Citroen Van has developed a small fault with its immobiliser after the key 'plipper' was immersed last...
SEPA’s event
As previously mentioned on out blog page, we were invited to attend SEPA's demonstration event to inform landowners of the rules and regulation over ditching, dredging and engineering. The event was held today in Darvel courtesy of Mungo Guthrie who is facing several...
Final fish rescue at Caaf Reservoir
Our final attempt to remove the trout from Caaf Rservoir ahead of it being decommissioned has been completed and this time we managed to catch another 600- 650 small brown trout. The total number of wild brown trout captured from this reservoir since May is over 2000...
Ospreys
I'm sure most would agree and we at the Trust certainly are pleased to occasionally get involved in wider aspects of fishery and wildlife management. Back in the days when Pete Minting was with the Trust (in 2007), he managed to secure funding to build Osprey nesting...
River Stinchar District Salmon Fishery Board Meeting
The Clerk to the Board has requested that we publicise this meeting. The date for the next RSDSFB meeting is Thursday 24th September 2015. The meeting will be held at Minuntion, Pinmore, By Girvan at 4.00pm This meeting is open to the Public
Himalayan Balsam in Dalmellington
Himalayan Balsam continues to spread, but this time we found it beside the Muck Water at Dalmellington in the upper Doon catchment. This is very disappointing as it threatens to spread along the entire river from this source. The Doon DSFB have supported our...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
