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Re: RE Bailiffing personally 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. 1 of the ascociations i am in has tiered memberships, a basic which allows 1 hour before to 1 hour after sunrise/sunset then you can buy add on packages to allow night fishing on any waters the club is allowed to night fish. they also have a rule on many sections where you can either fish until 1 hour after sunset, or 9pm, whichever is later. that gives you a good bit of after dark fishing through the winter months and seems to work well. Its something i would like BAA to have where allowed by the landowners. i find the "off the venue" 1 hour after sunset time a pain. if you are 20 or 30 mins from your car you are leaving in daylight so i would prefer it to be fish until 1 hour although there are problems with that. i believe the rules say the sunset time is based on London sunset times which seems bizarre to me, only 5 to 10 mins difference i know but bizarre none the less. referring to an earlier point made by Stew, i have never known a club that changes rules outside the AGM unless its a very urgent change in which case a meeting will be called and members noified where possible of the issue. Posted on October 12, 2017 at 12:32 PM
Re: Stocking barbel in rivers I 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. In the Severn's favour is its a big river so predation will hopefully have less impact. and i dont think there are crays in there eating the spawn and fry. Would still like to see all inland cormorants dispatched though, they get through a vast tonnage of fish. Just realised what a disjointed ramble i have just written guess its my age lol. Posted on May 20, 2017 at 10:58 AM
Re: Stocking barbel in rivers you 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. A vicious circle of decline in my opinion although there is work by the EA, RDAA and others to try and turn the tide by recreating spawning grounds, fry sanctuaries along with some stocking. I wont see the day when you could catch doubles almost anywhere on the river, sometimes multiple fish, sometimes huge fish, but maybe there is a light at the end of a long dark tunnel.. Posted on May 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM
Re: Stocking barbel in rivers from 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
Re: New Licence i 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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Re: RE Bailiffing

personally 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.
1 of the ascociations i am in has tiered memberships, a basic which allows 1 hour before to 1 hour after sunrise/sunset then you can buy add on packages to allow night fishing on any waters the club is allowed to night fish. they also have a rule on many sections where you can either fish until 1 hour after sunset, or 9pm, whichever is later. that gives you a good bit of after dark fishing through the winter months and seems to work well. Its something i would like BAA to have where allowed by the landowners.
i find the "off the venue" 1 hour after sunset time a pain. if you are 20 or 30 mins from your car you are leaving in daylight so i would prefer it to be fish until 1 hour although there are problems with that.
i believe the rules say the sunset time is based on London sunset times which seems bizarre to me, only 5 to 10 mins difference i know but bizarre none the less. referring to an earlier point made by Stew, i have never known a club that changes rules outside the AGM unless its a very urgent change in which case a meeting will be called and members noified where possible of the issue.

Posted on October 12, 2017 at 12:32 PM

Re: Stocking barbel in rivers

I 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.
In the Severn's favour is its a big river so predation will hopefully have less impact. and i dont think there are crays in there eating the spawn and fry. Would still like to see all inland cormorants dispatched though, they get through a vast tonnage of fish.

Just realised what a disjointed ramble i have just written guess its my age lol.

Posted on May 20, 2017 at 10:58 AM

Re: Stocking barbel in rivers

you 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.
A vicious circle of decline in my opinion although there is work by the EA, RDAA and others to try and turn the tide by recreating spawning grounds, fry sanctuaries along with some stocking. I wont see the day when you could catch doubles almost anywhere on the river, sometimes multiple fish, sometimes huge fish, but maybe there is a light at the end of a long dark tunnel..

Posted on May 15, 2017 at 9:26 PM

Re: Stocking barbel in rivers

from 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

Re: New Licence

i 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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