Farson Digital River Cameras

Farson has now installed web cams on two more Ayrshire Rivers, the Ayr and the Doon. Both are expected to go live any day now so remember to check them out regularly.   UPDATE. Both Cams are now live.

St Patrick’s Day comes early.

I remember watching a YouTube clip of Boston Harbour on St Patricks Day a year or two ago. The Harbour water was dyed fluorescent green as part of the celebrations and it made for quite a sight. Yesterday, Scottish Water performed a dye dispersion test on the Water of...

Pollution on the Ayr and Lugar last weekend.

Unfortunately we have been a bit too busy to update the blog daily of recent but at least I can now. Following last weeks hard frost, I decided to have a crack at the Grayling on the Ayr last Sunday. It had rained hard on Saturday afternoon onto frozen ground but...

CIRB Pre Tender Meeting Postponed

Our tender meeting which was arranged for Monday 13th February at 1.30pm has been postponed. Our tender documents are with Queens University Belfast and SEUPB (EU) will be verifying them this Friday 10th February. Once we hear that the tender documents are verified we...

Ayr Civic Society

Last night I gave a talk on the ‘Work of the Trust’ to Ayr Civic Society. The meeting was well attended for such a cold night with around 40 people turning out to hear about our work. There was an array of questions at the end and that usually signifies...

The Ayrshire Man

David McPhail, Ayrshire’s best known fly dresser has very kindly dedicated a magnificent Salmon fly that he has created to the Ayrshire Rivers Trust called the ‘Ayrshire Man’. This is a stunning fly and is sure to be a big hit across the Country this...

Utility Firm digs up Japanese Knotweed

Despite massive Press and media coverage and the endless efforts byorganisations such as ourselves, there remains the huge problem of lack of awareness when it comes to dealing with Japanese Knotweed (and other invasive non native species). ART has been active...