A winter’s Day

Rather out of the ordinary for ART, this morning saw us visiting a coastal burn in South Ayrshire beyond the Stinchar Valley and adjacent to the water of App. Galloway Fisheries Trust have been dealing with contractors and Scottish Power recently at a site where the...

School pupils enjoy a day out.

When schools ask for our assistance, very rarely do we ever refuse as education is central to the ethos of the Trust. Today we were joined by a group of advanced higher biology pupils from Wellington School in Ayr who wanted to look at different aquatic invertebrates...

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...

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...