More good news from the Ayr catchment

We have just about completed our Board commitments on the Ayr for 2014 electrofishing season but following last night’s Board meeting, I headed back to the upper catchment to look at a couple of sites where we will be gravel cleaning later this year in an effort...

Garnock Surveys

We continued with the surveys in the upper Garnock catchment today in advance of a hydro scheme being developed. We fished the Paduff Burn at two locations and a further site on the Pundeavon. The Paduff (aka Jock’s Burn) is a nice sized burn that has decent...

Catrine progress report

Work has continued at Catrine Dam and I visited on the way home last night to see for myself. The mortar is nearly complete on the dam back and by this evening two of the three remaining bays will have been poured. The final section will be completed on Friday this...

CIRB – Isle Of Arran

The job takes me to some very nice places sometimes and Sunday was no exception. A braw Sunday morning and the ferry to Arran was the order of the day.  CIRB project staff had previously visited the island in August last year...