Volunteer Bailiffs required

The River Ayr District Salmon Fishery Board is keen to recruit new volunteer bailiffs to assist with all aspect of their work. Bailiff’s patrol the river in teams offering fishery protection. They also maintain relationships with anglers, landowners  and other...

The End is Nigh

There’s no getting away from it, just 2.5hours from now and perhaps the worst season for many years will be over on all but the Irvine. The Irvine is still fishing reasonably well so perhaps I shouldn’t include them in my pessimistic summary of 2013 and if...

Last survey

With the weather being so nice and water levels dropping, I decided to have one last day at surveying before hanging up the waders so Helen and I headed back to the Doon catchment. We managed a single site on the Chapelton burn before our electro-fishing gear once...

Final survey roundup for 2013

I’ve been on holiday recently hence the lack of activity in the last week or two. Two burns in North Ayrshire have been the focus of  fish habitat surveys in the last week. The Kelly and Skelmorlie Burns are short coastal burns rising on the Ferret of Keith Moor...

Fish killed by unknown pollution source

Once again there has been an incident resulting in fish killed on the Ayr system. Almost a year ago to the day, the same burn was affected by a similar incident. I received a phone call this morning about the incident on the Yonderton Burn near Failford. A small group...

The Glenmuir Water

UPDATED The You Tube videos of combat fishing in Alaska are extreme but this morning with the Glenmuir in great order, I couldn’t help but draw comparisons between this great wee river and these North American waters. As we headed towards Dalblair, there were...