News
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...
Collecting Willow for green bank reinforcements * UPDATED APRIL 2016*
Struan and I collected a trailer load of willow ahead of upcoming work at Kilkerran on the Girvan and other areas on the Ayr that would benefit from some bankside cover. Our thanks to the Bullen's of Stair House for permission to harvest some willow there. We also...
Himalayan balsam appears on the Lugar
It seemed inevitable that the dreaded Himalayan balsam that pollutes every other Ayrshire river would appear in the Ayr catchment and it has. Last year we reported finding balsam on the Coyle at Broomhill fishery where it seemed to have come in with top soil. That was...
Experimental Gravel Cleaning
We were on the Lugar and upper Ayr today selecting and surveying sites ahead of experimental gravel cleaning that we intend to undertake along with the RADSFB bailiffs shortly. SEPA asked that we establish a base line against which we could assess improvements which...
Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
