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Have been down here a couple of times this year and blanked both times (lure fishing) also speaking to Carp anglers down there and they have also blanked, this used to be stuffed with fish, the worrying thing is, last night I walked a mile stretch of it with the fish finder and not one fish!!!
I know MEM have electrofished around here and have taken out the zander, hen thy do this they also leave the silvers at the mercy of the gulls and other predators, thanks to the C&RT they are killing the canals with their antics.
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Posted on July 7, 2023 at 8:21 PM
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Re: Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Tamworth - Where are the fish?
Hi Copo,
I have read your post and I looked back to when I asked a similar question about this Canal, and it was last September.
It is indeed “Very strange”, as back in the day I used to fish it frequently with my late father, and we always had mixed bag of fish.
I always read the lists of the “Waters Booked for Contests” and never see it booked?
It did not help some years ago when the farmer closed one of the tracks to one of the bridges between Drayton and Bodymoor.
It does make it a struggle to
Keep on Fishing….
Posted on July 8, 2023 at 8:16 AM
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Re: Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Tamworth - Where are the fish?
Prior to the electrofishing Reg I was catching on every single session down here, not just from one spot but along its length, why can't the C&RT just leave the canals alone and stop treating them as fish farms, they only remove the zander to make money and other fish are also taken to be placed elsewhere!!!
The biggest problem we have in the canal network now are crayfish, had they have left the zander in place then that would have been another predator munching on them, as we all know the C&RT don't give a flying toss to angling.
Posted on July 8, 2023 at 9:56 AM
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Re: Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Tamworth - Where are the fish?
I thought the Zander were removed because they are a non native species, I didn't think the EA had a little business going on selling them.
Do you have any details on this?
Posted on July 8, 2023 at 10:42 AM
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Re: Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Tamworth - Where are the fish?
C&RT employ a contractor company called MEM to carry out the work, heard this is at a cost of £800.00 per day, the Zander that are taken are sold into the food chain, most end up at Billingsgate Market where they are sold mainly to restaurants in London, there are Zander groups on Facebook following their antics.
Funny how John Ellis lost his bottle when he was supposed to turn up at the Big One to give a speech and do questions and answers, he heard the Zander anglers would be there to ask some questions, he pulled out with very short notice.
Think these jokers need to start looking into the crayfish issue as this menace will destroy the fishing in this country, but hey ho let’s blame the Zander like we used to blame the pike for missing fish.
Posted on July 9, 2023 at 8:01 AM
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Re: Birmingham and Fazeley Canal Tamworth - Where are the fish?
I sympathise with you on this one, nothing worse than having your fishing decimated.
But what I am struggling with is putting canal caught fish into the food chain...if this is fact the repercussions would be huge as would the penalties if there was a problem with eating the things.
Facebook, with respect is not the ideal source for the truth is it?
Meanwhile I am sure you are aware there are plenty of Z's in the Severn.
Posted on July 9, 2023 at 10:05 AM
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