With our salmon tracking site approved by MSS, we decided to place the mooring and receiver in Ayr harbour today. Not in the useable harbour but upstream of any boat traffic beside the old railway bridge pillars. Plan A was a good one (so we thought). Float the mooring on a raft and tow it to it’s position and then tip it in. We hadn’t banked on the wind that swamped the raft and sent the mooring to the bottom only 20 feet from the slip. A hastily built and tested raft that we though should do the trick… The…

Source: Ayshire River Trust – MSS Salmon Tracking Project