mickgrove
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TrimpleyOn my daily run / exercise passed opposite Trimpley. Left bank still fenced off from Arley down to Northwood and revetment / rock wall being engineered as part of river bank reinforcement, all along Trimpley stretch. Looks like it will have a major visual impact. Just wondered if anyone has further information of this engineering work or any idea of timescales of when this work may be completed - does not look like anytime soon? A further unrelated question - despite hot sunny weather, saw no evidence of fish or spawning, whole river appeared pretty lifeless. Wondered if anyone has seen any fish about or witnessed any spawning on middle Severn yet?
Posted on April 28, 2020 at 1:23 PM
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Re: BAA WATERS CLOSEDCan't argue with any of the points you make Tracker, but the point is that we must be seen to be abstaining from angling (however safe it may be), in solidarity with golfers, archers, canoeists, club runners, climbers etc. Once government makes one leisure group exempt from measures, then others will campaign that their past time has no negative impact. Dreadful cliche, but like Boris says - we are all in this together.
Posted on March 31, 2020 at 9:40 PM
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Re: BAA CanalsInteresting Rick - don't know Oldbury area well - assume you were fishing on the Birmingham mainline Canal? Do a bit of running there and it looks very featureless so pre--baiting good idea. Great thing about Birmingham - Worcs Canal is that there are loads of features to fish to and you can often spot the carp moving through the rushes or far bank vegetation when weather is warm, so stalking the fish is an option. Nothing much more exciting than having a bait in the water, under a float and watching a carp moving through the brambles or rushes towards your bait..... Another interesting thing about the carp on the Birmingham - Worcester is that they look like proper wild carp, not stocked fish. Many are very long and quite thin and they look nothing like the ones you see in the carp puddles.
Posted on March 21, 2020 at 11:36 AM
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Re: BAA CanalsCanals are full of fish, but rarely get fished, so fish often not used to anglers baits. Caster and hemp not so effective as they used to be and bread punch or simple pinkies over a bit of ground bait work well. If you want to target chub, try the moving water in the sluice overflows below locks - pretty well every lock that I know from Wombourne to Kidderminster (Staffs-Worcs) holds chub in the moving water, although not just there. Forget the pole and fish a light stick float in moving water, like a river, with plenty of loose feed. Great until boat traffic starts up. March and April can be tricky on canals, due to cold nights, fluctuating temperatures and spasmodic boat traffic. At their time of year I would still target the deeper water in the boat channel rather than the far shelf. Finally, if you want a challenge, seek out some canal carp - location is the key. I spent 15 years fishing mainly for canal carp, armed only with a carp rod + 10LB maxima line, 12 barbless hook, simple float rig, some ground bait / liquidised bread and a a loaf as bait. There is no self-respecting carp that won't gobble up a pice of bread fished hard on the deck over a bed of ground bait. Five Mile Pound on Birmingham - Worcs are good places to start - the other venues you'll have to find out with a bit of research!! Good luck you canal anglers.
Posted on March 20, 2020 at 7:16 PM
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Re: Rivers post floodingGood question - I know many anglers seem pretty unconcerned on the basis that rivers often flood, fish find slacks and eddies to hold up in and are quite resilient to raised water levels. However, this year the levels and pace of the water is unprecedented and seeing the Wye at Hay and the Severn at Ironbridge, you do wonder how fish could survive in what was a raging torrent. You then have the issue of vulnerable fry and small fish being washed downstream and larger fish stranded on floodplains as rivers recede and re-occupy the channel. I am no scientist, but you cannot help but think that there will be some degree of negative impact on stocks and this on top of the current predation issues. Sobering thought, but just think what has happened to the Teme after the massive flood of June 2007. My view is that it has never fully recovered from this event as a fishery and certainly, although otters often get the blame, it seems to me that the demise of the Teme as a barbel fishery can be traced back to the Summer of 2007.
Posted on March 12, 2020 at 6:06 PM
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