Just spent a few hours wading the river & ended up catching sweet F.A. This is pretty much unheard of on the stretches I fish at this time of year. Fair enough the conditions were not brilliant, there was a strong cold wind, nothing was really hatching & the bites I eeked out I managed to miss. I am starting to think that fish numbers are well down this season & it's not just my bad timing & technique. Mike (manchester fishing fiend) has reported similar findings on his blog & heard stories of people meat fishing the area. Wild Trout poulations are delicate enough especially with the pressures of Mink, Goosanders, pollution & gypos meat fishing... you can trap Mink & shoot Goosanders but, how you gonna get across the notion of catch & release to some scrote raised on findus crispy pancakes!Anyhow, here's a nice picture of some Bluebells.
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Went on over the weekend, managed two fish between us, last year would have had....... well you know dont you.
Numbers are well down apart from the one I caught not so much a sniff also not one rise !!! fished hard and in all the normal places, I would say the average size is up mainly because the small fish have gone. Very sad.
Bad news all round.
Nice bluebells though.
Tom
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