Stinchar Surveys
On Friday of last week we were in the Stinchar catchment continuing with our Government sites, this time we found ourselves on the Muck Water, a tributary of the Duisk River. We were accompanied my Ethan who is helping us at the moment. The site was typical of the...Silt and other issues affecting productivity
Our electrofishing season is all but over thankfully, as the injuries are stacking up and some older members of the team are feeling a bit tired. Age is a terrible affliction but with it comes experience so I do feel it has advantages (which I keep reminding my more...Dyrock problems on the Girvan catchment
On the Dyrock Burn in the Girvan catchment we find salmon in low densities most years but we’ve never really found as many as we feel should be produced from this watercourse and its tributaries. This year is no different and we were hard pressed to find any...Assessing problems in the Stinchar Valley
Today was a long one, but interesting too. Struan and I set off early for the top of the Stinchar to follow up on earlier work and with a few questions we wanted to answer. The weather was closing in as we headed down the road and the sky became darker and darker. We...Stinchar tributary monitoring
On Thursday last week we surveyed the Crailoch Burn at two locations, one was our last site for the Government and the other was a monitoring site for the Stinchar DSFB. Our upper site yielded only trout and the lower site was dominated by salmon. The difference...Photo Gallery
River Map Prints
We have three fine art map prints available to buy.
