bobrich5295
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Re: RE Bailiffingpersonally in over 40 years of fishing i have only ever found bailiffs polite and helpful although i am sure there will be some that are not, so i guess i am lucky or maybe its my lack of attitude when i meet them.
Posted on October 12, 2017 at 12:32 PM
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Re: Stocking barbel in riversI wonder if the Severn will in time go the way of the Kennet. Back in the 70's and 80's the Kennet had big roach and vast numbers of Barbel, but few big fish. A good fish then was 6 or 7 lb, very very few doubles ever caught mostly 1-4lbs, loads of Dace etc. in recent years dace and roach vanished (cormorants?) and Barbel got big. i used to average around 70% doubles in my Barbel captures until about 4 years ago when numbers appeared to crash (otters/age ?) not too many of the small 2 or 3 lb fish. There was quite good recruitment in Osier stream and i watched a guy 1 day catching loads of fish up to maybe 1/2 lb below a weir.
Posted on May 20, 2017 at 10:58 AM
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Re: Stocking barbel in riversyou are right that unless the problems causing the declining recruitment are resolved, just adding more fish is a short term expensive waste of money. The Kennet has had the lot, supposed to a chalk stream but below Thatcham you wouldnt think so. It has had excessive abstraction, when the canal was extended they didnt, as promised dredge the canal, just opened it up and God only knows how many tons of silt entered the river. Crayfish, mainly signals although i believe across various rivers there are now about 6 different invasive species. Apparently a few cats appearing, cormorants by the score, a surprisingly large increase in otter numbers and a change in otter behavior. Otters main impact i can see is that they take the mature breeding stock, so less spawn, crays eat a bigger percentage, so less fry, cormorants an rainbow trout, non native, eat a bigger percentage of small to medium fish so Few make it to adulthood only to get nailed by otters.
Posted on May 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM
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Re: Stocking barbel in riversfrom what i know about Barbel stocking on rivers, where they end up is hit and miss, i caught an EA stocked fish around 10 miles from where it was put in, . you can put them in what we would regard as perfick for Barbel but they push off elsewhere, in some cases navigating weirs to get there. What is worrying is that rivers need re-stocking, even the once prolific River Kennet, its Barbel once used to stock other rivers, is now having to be re-stocked itself. A sad reflection on the abilities of Natural England, the EA and canals and river trust to protect fish. Small barbel are just food for cormorants and the like, bigger fish otters. there are simply not enough Barbel reproducing to sustain, never mind increase, stock levels but the various bodies responsible just keep saying the rivers are cleaner than ever. and look there's lots of apex predators ( otter ) everything must be fine.
Posted on May 15, 2017 at 7:29 PM
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Re: New Licencei contacted the EA after the non arrival of my license. There was a problem with the printing and i can expect mine in roughly a weeks time. Carry ID and the receipt, email or otherwise, and you are covered.
Posted on April 05, 2017 at 5:42 PM
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