Useless weather for August

While anglers may well be reaping the benefit of a wet summer (where they can find fish), we at the Trust are struggling to complete the essential survey commitments we have. Unless it stops raining soon, I fear we may not complete our schedule on time if at all....

Dirty Spates

19mm of rain fell in Mauchline last night and 18mm at Gadgirth. This seemed to be consistent across much of Ayrshire last night as torrential rain and thunder storms passed over during the wee hours. Consequently, this morning every river and most burns were...

A different approach to increasing stocks

We were on the Girvan translocating fry from a high density main stem area to a nearby low density tributary. This is a far less damaging way of increasing the habitat utilised by salmon than the rather less controllable stocking with hatchery reared fry. The adult...

Fish Rescues on the Craufurdland Water

We were involved in a fish rescue last week ahead of the Scottish Water pipeline crossing the Craufurdland Water near Kilmarnock. We were there on Monday before water levels stopped work, followed by a return on Tuesday to perform the fist passes over with...

Farewell

It is never a good day when anyone leaves the Trust but today, after over 5 years with us, we had to say goodbye to Gordon Macdermid. Gordon came to us in 2012 as an invasive weeds project officer with CIRB. Since then he adapted to learn many new skills that will...

Unacceptable Pollution – (UPDATED at end of post)

River Ayr unfishable today… on many beats. At prime time of the year for angling and with a good run on the water and plenty of salmon about, what could be worse news for anglers and angling clubs? Many anglers must have faced this disappointment when they...