by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 22, 2014 | Electrofishing, General
With schools on holiday today, we were accompanied by a couple of youngsters keen to see what fish we found. The day started in Galston at the road bridge at the bottom of Cessnock Castle Woods on the Burn Anne. This site has been fished before giving total of 30...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 19, 2014 | Electrofishing, General
Loch Doon area today proved interesting. It’s been a while since I was last up Carrick Lane and the White Spout and neither Goron nor Struan had fished them before so a really worthwhile day. The White Spout site was last fished in 2009 and had salmon and trout...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 18, 2014 | Electrofishing, General
Today, we finally completed all the Ayr catchment surveys planned for this year. As usual, there have been numerous surveys on what is Ayrshire’s largest river with the most problems. That said and done, it’s always good to find something new and...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 17, 2014 | General
We dropped into the Laggansarroch Viaduct site after the Stinchar DSFB meeting this evening. Concerns had been raised at the meeting regarding the quality of the work and having seen it first hand this evening I have to agree. The armour rock reinforcing added to the...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 15, 2014 | General
As I said in a previous post we were back for one last visit at the Garnock to survey the habitat where the pipeline crosses. This wasn’t a water course survey but rather a look at the habitat and plants to allow assessment of the impact of a pipeline. It meant...
by Stuart Brabbs | Sep 14, 2014 | Conservation, Events, General
The title of this post poses a question that stemmed from an observation that ART made when electrofishing a site on the upper Ayr in 2011. On Friday we returned to the same site, keen to see how things may have changed. Until this season when electrofishing, we have...