by Stuart Brabbs | Oct 23, 2013 | Electrofishing, Events, General
I’ve been on holiday recently hence the lack of activity in the last week or two. Two burns in North Ayrshire have been the focus of fish habitat surveys in the last week. The Kelly and Skelmorlie Burns are short coastal burns rising on the Ferret of Keith Moor...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 25, 2013 | Electrofishing, General
We’ve been back on the Ayr catchment this week surveying regular sites to compare with previous results. We haven’t entered the data yet but from memory, the Burnock was comparable to last years results with good numbers of trout being found in these upper...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 17, 2013 | Electrofishing, General
As all the Ayrshire Rivers were still too big to electrofish today, we decided to take a chance and head North to look at a few burns around Largs and Skelmorlie. These coastal burns are small and largely unknown to us so it was an interesting day to see new waters....
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2013 | Electrofishing, General
Once again we headed to the upper Doon catchment looking at burns. Although the burns rose overnight, they were still fishable. The Cummock Burn at Camlarg was just fishable and slightly coloured but I was keen to see what was there. I had memories of fishing this...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 13, 2013 | Electrofishing, General
What started as quite a nice day ended up with the team soaked through as the rain came down at Dalmellington. We had a busy day though, looking at burns around the town and concentrating on the East side of the catchment where most of the past and present mining...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 11, 2013 | Electrofishing, General
We failed to find salmon fry or parr when we electrofished the Carrick Lane and Garple Water today. This was disappointing as the Doon DSFB hatchery has previously stocked the area until 2009 with fry and we had hoped that a self sustaining population would develop....