River Doon Spate

Rainfall has kept the river levels up across Ayrshire in recent weeks with spate after spate raising waters near the bank tops and beyond. The Doon is slightly different to other Ayrshire Rivers due to the artificial levels supplied as compensation flow from Loch Doon...

Dean Ford update

Over the holiday period, the Kilmarnock Water rose to one of the highest levels recorded in the last 10 years and predictably, there was a mass of timber carried downstream. At the new box culvert bridge being installed to replace the old ford, a substantial quantity...

Catrine

Following last week’s spate, I headed back to the dam today to see how things had held up following the flood. I didn’t really expect to see any problems but rather surprisingly there were two small issues obvious. The coarse trash bollards that were...

Good News

It’s been a difficult year financially or the Trust with funding extremely difficult to secure in the current financial climate. This morning we received a call from Scottish Power informing us that they are going to support our Loch Doon Project that is...

Scotland’s Marine Plan

I’ve attached a link to the Scottish Government’s Marine plan that will be the central to their plans for 2015. http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Resource/0046/00465865.pdf With changes afoot in Scotlands Wild Fisheries and further increase in Aquaculture and off...

Spawning underway

With the lower temperatures in the last few days and a falling water, it no surprise that salmon have started spawning in earnest. I received a report on Monday that a few salmon were spawning in Galston area on the Irvine. Heavy rain on Tuesday and Wednesday...