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Well said Lee.
When it comes to cutting bank bankside veg environmental agencies and some land owners are so backward, they give contractors a job and it's like "yeah chop the lot" Yes it does grow back but not after every fish in the stretch is exposed to predators for a whole year at least. The equivalent would be to cut a wild field of all it's grass an expect all the voles to cope. A field day for predators
Why can't these things be done with nature in mind, I've seen whole stretches of club waters ruined by over zealous chainsaw work when they could have left a couple of points of cover as refuge
Posted on April 16, 2020 at 9:38 AM
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Having lived on a canal I wouldn't eat anything that has spent any time in it's waters. Or any river with boats, houses or industry upstream for that matter. It would be quicker to eat human excrement followed by a chemical chaser.
Apologies if you are having your lunch
Posted on April 06, 2020 at 10:58 AM
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Chin up guys whilst there could be negative impacting on fish stocks I see little reason to think it will be another Teme due to the differences in the two rivers. I also only float fish and often notice in regular conditions that some swims run through faster in drought than when high due to the geography of the river, magnify this and you can get some heavy water higher up and relative calm underneath, plus natural bank side slacks nd wide areas offer refuge. The Teme is far more channelled than the Severn
Obviously it's been mega high but often it's the top layer that's pushing through, larger fish will find slack areas granted last year's fry may struggle, swims will change and features will go and form elsewhere. Cormorants may find also it a bit coloured at times so it's all a bit of a lottery.
Judging by the amount of dace in the river they can survive missing a year class as they would usually be breeding around now, but pike also should be breeding now and you can imagine them struggling. By the time it's barbel, roach and chub jiggy time the river should be back to it's normal levels, hopefully.
Posted on March 13, 2020 at 11:15 AM
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Yep if it ain't broke...
Changing the dates would never work either due to the differences in breeding times on rivers throughout the country and between all the species, we just have to take it as read that every now and then some species will be breeding whilst the season is on and may not do that well that year. Maybe it's a reason why there's missing year classes in fish sometimes?
There's an interesting part of the report that states that breeding chub and barbel when disturbed can retain their eggs and not spawn at all leading to a missed year of breeding
Posted on August 22, 2019 at 9:46 AM
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Onelastcast - You are losing your argument by not really sticking to the basics, maybe getting a bit riled by comments from others that are defensive due to your stance?
Stew - You're a match angler, Are barbel numbers in a decline on the Severn, is damage done long term by poor handling of all types? It takes a while for a barbel to go belly up, do other groups like the Barbel Society for example promote the use of keepnets for them?
Seems it's like the holy grail to find a way of match fishing that doesn't involve losing scales or damaging fins, as you fish matches regularly you know they are both a downside of keepnets. Being placed on gravel seems ideal in comparison, I'd rather that if I was a fish
Posted on August 20, 2019 at 5:49 PM
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