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Culroy Burn – Improvements to cut erosion
After considerable time in planning and negotiations with SEPA, we finally commenced the work at Culroy on the Culroy Burn in the Doon catchment. This work is supported and funded by the River Doon District Salmon Fishery Board in an attempt to improve both water...
Dippol Burn stocked
Under licence from Marine Scotland, we have stocked a few trout into the Dippol Burn near Auchinleck today. Water levels in the Stinchar were too high to allow our planned electrofishing to take place so we decided to head to the Lugar instead to capture wild trout...
Stinchar pollution and problems
It's a bad sign when the River Stinchar is suffering from pollution incidents on a regular basis and very worrying when we see fish numbers falling in some areas, possibly as a result. It's not just pollution that causes concern and we do see other problems that could...
Catrine update.
The new deflector appears to have helped slightly but more needs done in my opinion. I filmed the top baffle in the fish pass for an hour and a quarter this afternoon in a falling water when salmon would normally be expected to be running and indeed were, with a...
Catrine Dam deflector
The long awaited deflector at Catrine Dam is having it's first test this morning with a small spate that is underway. We visited the site this morning just after 9.00am and the river was in good flow although nothing extraordinarily for the Ayr. The height on the SEPA...
Caaf Reservoir fish rescue
After the success of our fish rescue at Pundeavon on Wednesday, we were all keen and enthusiastic for another good result when we arrived at Caaf reservoir near Dalry the next morning. However, it had rained overnight and water levels were rising quickly. Since...
Pundeavon Reservoir Fish Rescue
Pundeavon fish rescue went ahead on Thursday and what started as lovely weather soon deteriorated, almost predictably into a wet miserable afternoon.I saw Gordon applying the sun tan cream this morning and knew the day was cursed! However, it was far more pleasant...
River Irvine UPDATE
As promised, I can now update readers with progress at the Queen's viaduct on the Irvine. I met with the site manager, his foreman and the sub contractor's agent this morning and received a full explanation of the planned works and timescales. I was pleased to hear...

