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I am thinking of giving uckinghall a go on sat . How high does the river have to be before it empties into the lake ..
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Posted on February 2, 2017 at 8:30 AM
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Re: Uckinghall on sat
If the river is 4ft+ it will be pouring in. the Severn at the moment is nearly 8ft above normal so good luck.Of course if the pipe which allows the river to flood in has been fixed then the river will be nowhere high enough to flood the pool.????
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 8:53 AM
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Cheers m8xee . Hopefully someone else can spread some light on the pipe save me a 100 mile round trip
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 9:33 AM
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Re: Uckinghall on sat
Plenty of water coming in yesterday and that was before this mornings' rain. The southern half of the pool was already coloured with river water when I left at 3.30pm yesterday. Keep a close eye on river levels via the EA Web site before committing to a trip out.
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 10:25 AM
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Despite assurances from certain people that the flooding issue would be addressed it would seem nothing has been done.
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 10:34 AM
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Did you catch yesterday ?
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 10:43 AM
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No. Had my chances - a couple of decent runs; the first I missed, the second I connected, felt something reasonably solid on the end for about 30 secs and then it came off. Hey ho.
Couple of other anglers each banked a pike.
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 11:20 AM
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Re: Uckinghall on sat
Have you fished it when it's been as a colour on it ?
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 12:11 PM
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As with my post regarding discussions with John Williams about Cotheridge, I also discussed the proposed repairs to the pipe at Uckinghall, which I have been discussing with them in terms of options.
The decision is that they are not going to do anything as they are concerned about the state of the bank between the river and the pool. This is apparently made up ground which is rather unsound, and the concern is that a difference in level with the river, if a new non-return valve is fitted, may cause the bank to collapse, which would mean an end to the pool obviously.
I'm not sure I entirely agree with that view, but I respect their decision.
But if I travel to Uckinghall and it is unfishable, as it probably is currently, then there is always Mythe just down the road.
Oh and by the way, I have suffered dropped runs recently and put it down to zander. I'm going to try using much smaller baits, single hooks and virtually freeline without bobbins on the line - they are so finicky. I also saw a dead one in the there the other week when it was frozen - must have been 7lb - couldn't get it out through the ice though.
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 1:39 PM
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Had a similar issue last weekend. In the end I reckon it was the change in resistance when the line springs from the clip and changes to a slack. So rather than fish an open bale arm I used the pike swinger but kept the bale arm closed and used the baitrunner set on absolute minimum resistance setting. Seemed to work, next take was more recognisable and managed to connect. Will be fishing this way next time. For now though, I expect the pool will be under a lot of extra water as discussed so will have to fish for barbel instead!
Posted on February 2, 2017 at 8:23 PM
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If the river don't burst it's bank's how high can the lake get . ? I.e how many feet on is on the lake ?
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Posted on February 3, 2017 at 5:47 AM
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Re: Uckinghall on sat
The far end gets flooded, that is the pegs, the near side should just about be fishable,.. Too many preds in the lake wiping out the Roach stock, show 'em the pipe and point them towards the river.
Posted on February 3, 2017 at 7:29 AM
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Couldn't agree more with the last comment. With regard to the level the pool will reach. It will be the same level as the river(basic principle). At the current level all pegs will be completely under water and the water will be half way up the flood bank--- which was designed to keep the water out but does in fact keep the water in. The level will drop as the river goes down but very slowly as the pipe restricts the speed of the draining process. You will not be able to get round the pool for a few days so fishing only possible off the flood bank. The prevention of this continual inundation of the pool could be prevented if the powers that be put their minds to it but compared with other venues Uckinghall is low priority. It is many years-9 in fact since the Severn burst its banks and flooded the pool but the pool floods regularly every year due simply to a fault with the pipe which was designed to let the water OUT in the event of the river bursting its banks.
Posted on February 3, 2017 at 9:11 AM
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Mixer - if you read my post further up it will explain the BAA's current views on the subject of the pipe. I have tried to convince them that a new non-return valve would work but they have an overriding concern about the condition of the bank. Seems the decision is final to leave it as is.
As for the pool having too many predators - I really don't think there are that many in there or I would probably get a few more out. Also, since last year there has been a massive influx of bleak which can only have come in from the river via the pipe as it didn't come over the bank at all last winter. And there is plenty of evidence the zeds are feeding on those rather than the roach - I've seen them hammering into them further up the water levels - the bleak tend to feed in the top couple of feet. The biggest issue for the roach will be the bleak are now competing for the same food, but I guess it will even out eventually - with the pike and zeds eating each other anyway. I'd be surprised if there is more than 15 zeds in the pool in total - not seen any babies landed yet - which would come to worms or maggots, so no signs they have spawned in there yet.
Posted on February 3, 2017 at 1:26 PM
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Glenl.
I well remember your valiant efforts last year to address the flooding problem.I am a as puzzled as you are by the BAA's reasoning. If the river was prevented from coming into the pool then any pressures from it would tend to hold the bank in place. what is happening now is the pool fills up sometimes as much as !4ft + almost to the top of the flood bank Then the river drops down to 2 or 3 feet above normal but because of the restriction of the pipe a huge amount of water is left in the pool putting pressure on the bank between pool and river and I would think if anything is going to cause the bank to collapse it would be this water left in the pool.
Posted on February 3, 2017 at 3:40 PM
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The bleak problem is the same at Mythe, I know these type of 'kettle' ponds suffer this way with the influx of river fish, and the other way too. Which makes for an interesting stock of fish at any one time, Grass Carp were once in Uckinghall, but now in the Severn, can't see any reason for Zander to be in anything other than the river...but you know about fish transfer and the regs.
What I miss is a natural inland lake that has not been commercialised by Carp, that contains all the natural species, Rudd Tench, Roach , and the like, it is always bizzare when I fish the BAA ponds in seeing bleak in such numbers you cant avoid them. Of course if the lakes were to retain there ]Pond' status you will need to ensure there is no egress of River water in flood, which I don't think is possible.
Posted on February 4, 2017 at 9:11 AM
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Re: Uckinghall on sat
Fished sat and blanked ..lake was just above stages ...loads of bleak topping .saw 2 small jacks .
Posted on February 5, 2017 at 7:23 PM
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