Drought continues and we highlighted the irrigation/extraction problem a couple of days ago.  Now this from
 the EA.  Please take time to do this if you see it.

The Agency have requested that anyone coming across drying up rivers and stranded fish report it to their 0800 80 70 60 incident line or if in Wales, to Natural Resources Wales on 0300 065 3000.

Also, any suspected illegal abstraction should be reported to the same numbers.

----------------------------------Last week the Environment Agency were rescuing stranded fish (trout and salmon parr) from the rapidly drying up river Teme on the Powys/Herefordshire border. This happens most years on this Severn tributary but it’s usually not until late summer that the Agency is called upon. Last year’s rescue was in September.----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------



This follow up from the previous'almost unbelievable' post of yesterday.

Subject: LYDBROOK GENTLEMANS HOURS. 9.30 -1.00----- 2.00-4.30.

Geoff . That incident with George Woodward at Lydbrook takes me back to the mid-eighties when I fished with him and the other gilly [Bill Meaks? ] ALL of the fishing was from a boat then.I was first introduced as a guest of Mr. Karl Simpson who was a very competent fisherman and a good friend.I was later offered and took a Tuesday rod throughout the season . The fishing cost me then, six hundred and nine pounds /season and the letting agent was Edwards Bigwood and Bewley. That was a fair sum of money then for a working chap but I convinced myself that from March through to October there would be plenty of fishing for any species in season and that represented better value to me than a boozy week in Torremolinos. What I did not understand was the fickle enthusiasm of the other tenants and gillie,s alike for fishing under conditions which were less than wonderful.I would regularly arrive to find that half the complement of rods were not bothering.I soon got the impression from George that he could find much better things to do than waste his time when the river was so out of condition and that made me uneasy so I had a quiet and light-hearted chat with him. I told him that as far as I was concerned a bad day on the river was better than a bad day in a fuckin foundry and I volunteered to fish from the bank. George agreed and I spent some happy hours there fishing for all sorts of fish. On one of those hopeless occasions, arriving one hot and sunny morning in mid-summer I found the river down to its bare bones and after getting the tacit nod from George started fishing light tackle from the bank on the Pope Rock Pool, There had been no rods on the water for a week, five minutes in and a slight nock then off it goes George netted a sparkling fresh fish 10lb or so. Never say Never. Happy Days Indeed.
regards Terry

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