Culroy follow up and Netherton Burn

We returned to finish off the Culroy today conscious that the DSFB had stocked fed fry from their hatchery operation yesterday. With this in mind, I wanted to avoid catching the stockies as much as possible but electrofishing isn’t selective so I decided to fish...

Blank day on the Culroy

After emptying the van of equipment from the Arran trip and disinfecting waders etc, we headed off to the Culroy Burn on the Doon catchment to electrofish our usual sites and a few new ones too. Results last year weren’t great, in fact, on the whole they were...

Stinchar electrofishing

This week we have been busy electrofishing on the Duisk and Stinchar catchments. I haven’t posted any photos as I lost my camera on Monday, but thankfully when we started backtracking in search of it, Struan found it lying behind a wall at the Feoch Burn. It...

Assel (follow up)

We continued electrofishing on the Assel today. I had only ever fished at Daldowie before so the last couple of days have been an education and very interesting and we now know a fair bit more detail of the Assel’s fish populations and the habitat and diffuse...

Markhill surveying

Markhill windfarm in the Duisk Valley near Barrhill was the focus of todays work. We set off to survey up to 4 burns today, mostly in remote locations but after a puncture and a road closure we only managed 2. The results were less disappointing than journey down and...