Friday 23 June 2017

A continuation of cooler temperatures should enable river temperatures to drop slowly though they remained high enough to cause concerns for fish welfare, To its credit Bigswier has suspended fishing for the time being and others considered doing so.  However as usual nothing in the terms of advice to anglers from either NRW or WUF.
Many experienced rods of course made their own decision and did not fish. Others found conditions pretty much impossible, others carried on.
Raised eyebrows for many  to say the least, at reports of a sea liced fish caught at the Nyth.  Nothing is impossible however unlikely in fishing but one does wonder if perhaps it was just river lice seen on the fish.  Many coarse fish and trout have been invaded by theses lice with reports up and down the river and salmon often get them too after having been holed up in the river for a while.   Not having seen the fish we will never know.

By the way it looks as though the much vaunted release from the Elan dams has been stopped so that didn't last long did it and lets be honest it was having little effect anyway, especially for the downstream beats.  Release looks to be less even than before the extra was discharged but it was deemed a triumph anyway.

Someone said today "Whats wrong with swimming in the river anyway."  I asked if he ever used the swimming baths, he replied yes.  I said " If you went and found the water as coloured as a dirty beer, with weed and debris floating it it.  A herd of cows crap+++g in it, a few dogs peeing in it, rats with Weil's disease running around the edge and with a steady trickle of sewage from the toilets dribbling into it -would you swim in it.   I think he got the point and might just be reconsidering.



WSA held another course on the river for schoolchildren yesterday at Whitney where children from Sutton St Nicholas School enjoyed their day out on the river.  Several of the children caught trout and here too most had up to half a dozen  river lice on their back and head. (The trout -not the children!!!!!)   See picture below of one happy youngster who will hopefully take up the sport in the future.


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