News
New Government Policy on stocking rivers and lochs announced
The policy is being phased in over the period from January 2016 to January 2020. Full details are available on the Government's web page at http://www.gov.scot/Topics/marine/Licensing/fishintros/introduction/StockingTrout. Key points to note are: 5 a) Introductions...
Catrine Dam today
We headed to Catrine Dam this morning to have a look at the levels following our visit last night. At 6.00pm yesterday, the entrance to the fish pass was obliterated by the flow over the dam back thundering into the entrance to the fish pass. Water levels last night...
Diffuse pollution
Again on the Ayr, we visited the Dippol Burn near Ochiltree to see what condition the habitat was in. Previously this burn's fish population has been surveyed by ART and never a trout was found over several years although pollution tolerant species such as Stone...
An interesting day out on the Ayr
Following heavy rain overnight, the River Ayr was in spate as we headed out to collect more temperature data from the loggers in the upper catchment. We headed straight to Glenbuck and downloaded data from the very top of the catchment. When we were there I took Muir...
Temperature data loggers
Nearly one year on from when we installed temperature data loggers across the river Ayr catchment to assess long term changes in water temperatures driven by Global Warming, we returned today to download the data. Unfortunately the rain was pelting down and this...
Caaf Reservoir pollution
Following the silt pollution over the weekend that arose from Caaf Reservoir, I can update concerned anglers with the latest information that I have. We visited the site this morning to find the flow has now been cut totally to the Caaf to prevent further silt being...
Garnock Pollution
Over the weekend, I received several calls regarding pollution on the Garnock arising from the Caaf Reservoir. This has been reported to SEPA who are investigating what occurred that led to such a heavy silt loading. Obviously this incident is linked to the drawdown...
Large Woody Debris
I make no apologies for another post following the Woody Debris/ green engineering theme and there will more to follow as work progresses on the Culroy Burn later this summer. Last year Kilkerran Estate took steps to protect two rapidly eroding banks using green...
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River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
