by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 20, 2013 | fishing, General
The river Ayr map is nearing completion. Harriet Ellis has been working away to finish the watercolour paintings and is about to start adding pool names. Davie McPhail the world famous local fly tier and creator of the ‘Ayrshire Man’ fly is delighted that...
by Stuart Brabbs | Oct 31, 2013 | fishing, General
There’s no getting away from it, just 2.5hours from now and perhaps the worst season for many years will be over on all but the Irvine. The Irvine is still fishing reasonably well so perhaps I shouldn’t include them in my pessimistic summary of 2013 and if...
by Stuart Brabbs | Oct 4, 2013 | Conservation, fishing, General
UPDATED The You Tube videos of combat fishing in Alaska are extreme but this morning with the Glenmuir in great order, I couldn’t help but draw comparisons between this great wee river and these North American waters. As we headed towards Dalblair, there were...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 19, 2013 | fishing, General
We headed out electrofishing this morning on the off chance that we would find a site fishable but all the rivers and burns were rising and it just wasn’t possible. We looked at a few obstacles on the way back to office before I decided to take the afternoon off...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 2, 2013 | fishing, General
After another breakdown with the electrofishing set (it’s the anode that’s causing problems), Gordon and I stopped on the way back to the office to look at Stair Dam. We didn’t really expect any rise in water and there wasn’t one so we...
by Stuart Brabbs | Aug 29, 2013 | fishing, General
I’ve been informed that due to popular demand, an artificial freshet is planned for Monday on the Doon. Hopefully this will bring in a few fish from the bay but from what I’ve seen on the Met Office website this evening, there may be a natural spate on the...