More Ayr system surveys

We’ve been back on the Ayr catchment this week surveying regular sites to compare with previous results. We haven’t entered the data yet but from memory, the Burnock was comparable to last years results with good numbers of trout being found in these upper...

Thursday washout

We headed out electrofishing this morning on the off chance that we would find a site fishable but all the rivers and burns were rising and it just wasn’t possible. We looked at a few obstacles on the way back to office before I decided to take the afternoon off...

Skelmorlie Water

As all the Ayrshire Rivers were still too big to electrofish today, we decided to take a chance and head North to look at a few burns around Largs and Skelmorlie. These coastal burns are small and largely unknown to us so it was an interesting day to see new waters....

More Doon Surveys

Once again we headed to the upper Doon catchment looking at burns. Although the burns rose overnight, they were still fishable. The Cummock Burn at Camlarg was just fishable and slightly coloured but I was keen to see what was there. I had memories of fishing this...

A wet afternoon on the Doon

What started as quite a nice day ended up with the team soaked through as the rain came down at Dalmellington. We had a busy day though, looking at burns around the town and concentrating on the East side of the catchment where most of the past and present mining...