2019 River Categories.

The Government has released the river categorisations having now been passed in Parliament. These gradings will be effectual from April 1st 2019.   River Categories are as follows.   Irvine -3 Garnock – 2 Ayr – 2 Doon – 2 Girvan – 2 Stinchar...

MSS Publish Plans to Gather Catch Effort Data

Last week, Marine Scotland announced their intention to collect rod effort data from fisheries in 2019 (for salmon only). While we agree the catch per unit effort would be extremely beneficial to understanding salmon runs, collecting the necessary data is likely to...

Smolts at Catrine

There were a few more smolts active at Catrine this morning. They were taking grannoms and midges from the surface or at least trying to. It is a hit or a miss to capture these images and you really need to have polaroids on to see the fish coming before they rise and...