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What species are most common on the Ayr?

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 14, 2014 | Conservation, Events, General | 2 Comments

The title of this post poses a question that stemmed from an observation that ART made when electrofishing a site on the upper Ayr in 2011. On Friday we returned to the same site, keen to see how things may have changed. Until this season when electrofishing, we have...

Intimation

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2014 | General | 0 Comments

We were saddened to hear of the death of Douglas Stewart last Tuesday. Douglas was a keen River Doon angler and supporter of the Trust and will be sadly missed. Our condolences go to all his family.

Catrine Works – Progress update

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 12, 2014 | General | 6 Comments

First to avoid confusion, there are two separate jobs underway at Catrine, the large weir contract that has progressed throughout the summer. Second contract is the Daldorch wall underpinning. The contractors are different as are the organisations responsible for the...

More good news from the Ayr catchment

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 10, 2014 | Electrofishing, General | 0 Comments

We have just about completed our Board commitments on the Ayr for 2014 electrofishing season but following last night's Board meeting, I headed back to the upper catchment to look at a couple of sites where we will be gravel cleaning later this year in an effort to...

Good news at last from the Ayr

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 9, 2014 | Electrofishing | 0 Comments

We don't often report good news about fish stocks on the Ayr but I'm pleased to say we can today. Well in fact it's not the Ayr but the Ponesk Burn in the upper Ayr catchment. This burn was moved to allow coal to be extracted from below it in 2010. This wasn't the...

Last day habitat surveying in the Garnock Catchment

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 8, 2014 | fishing, General | 0 Comments

Finally after what has been a hard few days, we reached the end of the fish and fish habitat surveys required on the upper Garnock catchment today. We have one more survey of the pipe track to undertake later in the week but this has nothing to do with rivers or fish....

Glenmuir electrofishing indicates worrying trend

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 7, 2014 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General | 14 Comments

Last week, we fished the upper gravel extraction site on the Glenmuir whilst waiting on the backpack equipment to be repaired. ART has fished this site annually since 2006 and this years results were poorer than any other. With this in mind, I looked at the results...

Garnock Surveys

by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 3, 2014 | General | 0 Comments

We continued with the surveys in the upper Garnock catchment today in advance of a hydro scheme being developed. We fished the Paduff Burn at two locations and a further site on the Pundeavon. The Paduff (aka Jock's Burn) is a nice sized burn that has decent stocks of...