by Stuart Brabbs | Jan 9, 2018 | General
A Happy New Year to all our readers and we wish you all a prosperous 2018. The first real post of our activities in the New Year should always be an interesting one and this one is. Back in july 2017 we installed a tracker into Ayr harbour for Marine Science Scotland...
by Stuart Brabbs | Dec 8, 2017 | Conservation, Events, General, Uncategorized
For the Christmas period only we are offering a 25% discount on all our river maps; Stinchar, Ayr and Doon. These maps detail all the named beats and all the named salmon pools on each of the rivers. Just follow the link below:...
by Stuart Brabbs | Dec 2, 2017 | Conservation, General
The video describes how the run times of the types of Tweed Salmon have changed over the centuries. The information comes from a long term study that was made by the Tweed Foundation using historic Tweed Salmon catches, mostly from the netting stations. It shows that...
by Stuart Brabbs | Dec 1, 2017 | Conservation, fishing, General
We visited the upper Stinchar in search of salmon spawning a couple of days ago and filmed this beautiful wee river on a bright winter’s day. We had also been rescuing fish from a burn on the Duisk ahead of emergency repairs taking place so while we did have...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 27, 2017 | Conservation, Events, fishing, General
With Stuart over in the Ayr catchment I headed to the upper Girvan yesterday afternoon. After our washed out visit on Friday afternoon I took advantage of the SEPA gauge working and decided the levels were just about right. Spawning has yet to...
by Stuart Brabbs | Nov 1, 2017 | Conservation, Electrofishing, General
We annually visit Glenmuir Water (aka the Shaw Burn) to download temperature data from our logger high on the Lugar side of the Ayr catchment. It is a long trek out there even in a 4×4 but it is a lovely but barren place to visit. Salmon numbers have crashed on...