Water Vole Breeding

by | Mar 9, 2011 | Conservation, General

Gilllian Murray and Stuart Brabbs had a flying visit to Devon last week to see our water vole breeding program in action. During the course of the visit to the Derek Gow Consultancy, we gained valuable training in animal husbandry and handling the voles which will be...

Away Day

by | Mar 9, 2011 | General

At the start of this week, ART’s trustees and staff had an ‘away day’ to the Kirkton Inn in Dalrymple with the purpose of developing forward thinking and new strategies for the Trust in coming years. Brian Shaw reviewed the first 10 years of the...

RAFTS annual conference 2011

by | Feb 25, 2011 | General

The Rivers and Fisheries Trusts of Scotland (RAFTS) (in association with the Association of Salmon Fishery Boards) annual conference will take place on Wednesday 23rd March 2011 at The Battleby Institute, Redgorton, nr Perth. The conference theme this year...

Tackle in the Attic rods for sale

by | Feb 11, 2011 | General

We were donated a collection of rods through our ‘Tackle in the Attic’ scheme. We are selling the rods through ebay where 11 rods are currently listed all starting at £0.99. Auctions will end on Sunday 20th Feb in the evening. Have a look and see if there...

Ayrshire rivercams

by | Feb 10, 2011 | General

The good news is that the Stinchar and Girvan webcams are now available live at http://www.farsondigital.co.uk/stinchar/live.php and http://www.farsondigital.co.uk/girvan/live.php. Hopefully these webcams will be an invaluable resource for anglers or others interested...

Ponesk Burn diversion

by | Feb 2, 2011 | General

There was a lot of coal in the Muirkirk area and it has been mined on and off for many many years. Scottish Coal have a large opencast mine in the area at Spireslack which has exploited most of the easily accessible deposits. One of the remaining large deposits lies...