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Notice of Annual Proprietors meeting
February 17, 2014Annual Meeting of Qualified Proprietors 25 MARCH 2014 at 10am FRIARS CARSE COUNTRY HOUSE HOTEL, AULDGIRTH, DUMFRIES The following matters will be considered:- – The activities of the Board for the year to 30.11.13 (detailed in the annual report). – Consideration of (Read More…)
Fishery Management Plan 2014-2018
February 2, 2014The Nith District Salmon Fishery Board and Nith Catchment Fishery Trust have published the 2014-2018 Nith Catchment Fishery Management Plan. This Fishery Management Plan takes account of changes over the previous five year period and proposes management actions considered necessary for the (Read More…)
River Nith Winter Grayling Competition
November 12, 20131st & 2nd March 2014 at Friars Carse Hotel A grayling fishing competition is to be held at Friars Carse Hotel on 1st and 2nd March 2014. The competition is fly only. The winner will be announced at 2pm on Sunday (Read More…)
Abbreviated Board Meeting Report 11th December 2012
October 1, 2013The Nith Board and their staff are busy with the task of managing the river and its stocks of salmon and sea trout. Whilst engaged with the many facets of modern fisheries management it is often all too easy to forget that (Read More…)
Nith weekly fishing report – 16th – 21st Sept
September 24, 2013Nith Fishing Report for week 38 (16th – 21st Sept) – a total of 85 salmon and grilse were reported to us as having been caught on the River Nith last week. This included 27 from the Burgh Water, 12 from DGAA, (Read More…)
River diversion on the Nith
August 15, 2013The course of the River Nith was altered at Kier’s Greenburn Surface Coal Mine near New Cumnock, during the second week of August 2012. This was the first of two planned diversions of the river to facilitate the extraction of coal beneath (Read More…)
Robin Rigg report by Marine Scotland
August 13, 2013Marine Scotland recently published a report on the potential influence of Robin Rigg Wind Farm on Atlantic salmon abundance in the rivers to the east of the farm. Using rod catch data and juvenile salmonid data they found that there were no (Read More…)
Fishing days at Drum Loch
August 7, 2013participate in a day’s angling tuition on a local trout fishery. This year, Dumfries High School and Wallace Hall Academy took up the offer and enjoyed a day’s fishing on Drum Loch. The weather was kind to them and a few fish (Read More…)
Helping Hand
August 5, 2013The Trust and Board’s staff has been planting out hatchery reared stock recently into areas of the catchment that have been assessed previously and require this management intervention. The stocking of fry is one of those tasks in the year which lends (Read More…)
Fish death investigated
July 6, 2013A concerned local angler reported a couple of dead fish upstream from Auldgirth Bridge earlier today and we went out with the angler to investigate. On retrieving and examining the two sea trout, it is thought that they have both died of (Read More…)
