Fisheries, river beats & carp lakes
Watch the water. Even at 2am.
The Solar 360 goes where fishing huts go: no power, no WiFi, just daylight and a mobile signal. Eyes on the hut, the pools and the parking, and a look at the river from your kitchen.
From two brothers who fish.
- SIM fitted and tested
- Signal checked at your exact spot
- No power or WiFi needed
- 30 days to change your mind
Why fisheries buy it
What a camera on the water actually does
Left stocked and left alone. Rods, reels, waders, outboards. Usually the biggest loss on any beat, and the easiest place to put a camera.
Nets across a tail, set lines, rods at 5am from folk who were never on the booking sheet. It happens when the water’s empty.
Anglers’ cars sit in remote pull-ins all day. One camera watches them and tells you who’s come and gone.
Height, colour and whether it’s dropping, from your kitchen. It settles “is it worth the drive?” before you load the car.
What we’ve seen on the bank
Everyone who fishes has heard the stories
Nets across a tail. Set lines left overnight. Fish snatched or foul-hooked by folk who were never there to fish. Mattresses and builders’ rubble dumped in the lay-by. A hut door forced, a car window put in. Over the years we’ve seen some of it ourselves and heard the rest from other anglers. None of it happens when the water’s busy.
22:47 · The lay-by. A van pulls in at the gate. Two people unload rubbish over the fence.
A camera won’t stop all of it. What it does is see it, alert your phone while it’s happening, and give the bailiffs and police something to go on.
The fishery map
Where the cameras go
A Solar 360 doesn’t stare one way. It pans and tilts, so one camera can scan a whole pool. Tap a camera to see what it covers.
Swipe the map to see it all, or tap a camera
- Solar 360
- Area it can pan to cover
- Where it’s looking now
- Spate line
- 1The hut
High on the gable. It swings from the door and the track round to the head of the pool, so everyone arriving walks through its view.
- 2The pool that matters
One post above the spate line, and it pans across the whole pool, from the neck down to the tail. At night it watches for nets and set lines. In the morning you sweep it across to read the height and colour.
- 3The pull-in and gate
Turns from the gate to the parked cars, logging every vehicle on and off the beat.
Mounting tip: above the highest water you’ve ever seen, with the panel facing south and out of the tree shade.
Swipe the map to see it all, or tap a camera
- Solar 360
- Area it can pan to cover
- Where it’s looking now
- Swims
- 1The gate and car park
Pans across the entrance and every parked car. It’s where stock thieves and fly-tippers show up first.
- 2The lodge
Bait fridge, tackle, boats and the honesty box. It sweeps the lodge door and the path down to the bank.
- 3The back bank
The boundary nobody watches at 2am. It can pan anywhere, so set it to watch the boundary, not the swims.
Good practice: point cameras at gates, buildings and boundaries, not into anglers’ swims, and put signs up so everyone knows.
Every morning of the season
Is it worth the drive?
Rain overnight, and the question over breakfast: is it fishable? The gauge gives you a number for a station miles away. The camera shows you your own pool.
- Height against the stone you always read it by
- Colour in the tail: brown, tea or gin-clear
- Direction: two looks an hour apart tell you it’s dropping
- Shared with your syndicate, ghillie or bailiffs
Our tip from the bank: pick a mark you read every time, like a stone, a bridge pier or the toe of a croy. Point the camera at it, and “up to the third stone and dropping” becomes something you can read from the kitchen.
Who you’re dealing with
From two brothers who fish
RuralGuard is Graham and Theo. We fish, so we know the hut that gets broken into, the pool the poachers favour, and the wasted Saturday driving up to a brown river. Every Solar 360 has its SIM fitted and tested here before it ships, and when you ring, you get one of us.
Read how we think about it: river beat security and how to tell if a salmon river is fishable.
Graham & Theo
Our rivers
The rivers we fish
We learned on the Carron, and we’ve been heading north ever since. These are waters we know from the bank, not from a brochure.
- 1River CarronHome water
Where we learned to fish. From the Carron Valley down through Denny and Larbert to the Forth.
- 2River ForthStirling
From Aberfoyle through Stirling to the firth, close to home.
- 3River TeithStirling
Fast, clear water from Callander to the Forth near Stirling.
- 4South EskAngus
From Glen Clova through Brechin to the Montrose Basin.
- 5North EskAngus
From Glen Esk down past Edzell to the sea north of Montrose.
- 6River SpeySpeyside
Big, powerful water from the Monadhliath to Spey Bay, and the home of Spey casting.
- 7River FindhornMoray
A spate river cutting through deep gorges to the Moray Firth. Timing the drop is everything.
- 8River ShinSutherland
Short and powerful, from Loch Shin over the Falls of Shin. Where Theo caught his first salmon.
- 9River HelmsdaleSutherland
Down the Strath of Kildonan to the east coast, one of the north’s classic salmon rivers.
- 10River ThursoCaithness
Flowing north to Thurso Bay. Theo landed a 7lb grilse here in July 2026.
Fish one of these, or somewhere like them? Send us a pin of your beat and we’ll check the signal there for free.
Already on the water
★★★★★
“Fantastic experience and customer service from this company, and now fantastic coverage from my place in France that I can see from my UK residence.”
David PurdayPrivate carp fishery, Mayenne, France · Defender 360 (4G)
- River beat1–2 cameras: the hut, plus the pool that matters
- Stillwater or carp lake2–3 cameras: the gate, the lodge and the back bank
- Club with several watersMessage us and we’ll price a setup for you
Built for where fishing huts sit
RuralGuard Solar 360
£159.99 each, delivered free
- Signal checked first. We check 4G at your address before it ships. If it won’t work, you get a full refund.
- Arrives working. SIM fitted and tested in Scotland. Free tracked delivery: order by 2:30pm on a weekday, or 9:45am on a Saturday, and it ships the same day.
- 30 days to change your mind, then an 18-month warranty and a real person on WhatsApp.
Questions anglers ask
Before you put one on the water
Will it get a signal down by the river?
That’s the right first question, because a valley bottom can be patchy where the hill above is fine. Send us the postcode, or better, a map pin of the hut or the pool, and we’ll check 4G coverage at that exact spot before you buy. If it won’t work there, we’ll tell you straight and you don’t buy.
What about spates and floods?
Mount it high, on the hut gable, a tree or a post, above the biggest water you’ve ever seen on that river. Wherever it goes, face the panel south and out of the tree shade.
Will it keep going through the winter?
Solar cameras live on daylight, and a Scottish December is short of it. In the darkest weeks any solar setup can run low, ours included. When it does, you top it up with a USB-C cable. Better you hear that now than find out in January.
Can our members, ghillie or bailiffs watch it too?
Yes. You can share access so several phones can view the same camera, so a syndicate can settle “is it worth going?” in the group chat before anyone’s left the house.
Will it stop poachers?
It deters a lot of it and records the rest. A watched water gets left alone, and when something does happen you can give the bailiffs and police a time, a direction and footage instead of a guess. It isn’t a physical barrier, and we’ll never sell it as one.
What about walkers and anglers on the bank?
Point the camera at what you’re protecting: the hut, the gate, the parking and the water. In Scotland, folk on the bank are often using lawful access rights, so keep it on the beat, not on them, and put up a sign so everyone knows the area is recorded.
The water’s been looking after itself long enough.
Tell us where it is: a postcode, or a pin of the hut or the pool. We’ll check the signal at that exact spot and tell you honestly what will work.
If it won’t get signal at your spot, you don’t buy it. That’s the deal.
