Catrine Survey

At last the River Ayr has dropped back to the lowest levels since July, allowing us to get on with some of our electrofishing and habitat surveys. The river was still higher than I would have liked and one site we had chosen to fish was abandoned as we quickly...

‘Sunday Best’

Tradition dictates that Sunday is a day of rest unless of course you have pressing work and a limited window of opportunity to complete things before it starts raining again! Gordon and I headed to the headwaters of the Lugar today to fish the Glenmuir and Guelt. The...

Saturday’s sun and burns

Once again we headed out electrofishing to make the most of the dry (ish) weather. Water levels remained about the same as yesterday as there was a touch more rain overnight but it was a glorious sunny Autumn day and I was glad to be out and about. I had hoped to be...

Duisk Results *UPDATED 02/10/12*

Last week we managed to electrofish some sites in the Duisk catchment (a tributary of the Stinchar). Despite water levels being higher than we would like, we had to make the most of the dry days. I’ve included 6 charts below. Classification follows SFCC...

It’s a bite but by what?

The Cross Water at Barrhill is a black peaty water that supports a few trout and salmon in the lower reaches. We monitor a site just upstream of the village at the Martyrs Tomb. We normally find a few better than average trout (for this burn) and this year was no...

Culroy Burn

We were back electrofishing at the Culroy Burn in the Doon catchment today. Concerns have been raised about the level of siltation arising from this burn but more importantly following last years generally poor electrofishing results, I wanted to see how the spawning...